Principal Software Engineer - Operations Platform

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. 

At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 

A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

WHY OPERATIONS PLATFORM?

Safety and Civility is Roblox's #1 priority, and our mission is to protect our community. As a Principal Software Engineer on the Operations Platform Team you will build the platform which scales safety across the company and help keep our community a safe and civil place for our 170 million monthly users. This platform will be used by other teams at Roblox to solve their safety problems. Safety and Civility is one of the fastest growing organizations and features diverse work building high-throughput microservices. You will report to an engineering leader on our Operations Platform team.

You Are:

• A Technical Leader: You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical solutions. Your technical expertise influences product direction
• Versatile: You are proficient in several programming languages and technologies. You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems
• Analytical: Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and quantify the problems and the solutions
• Team-oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger

You Will:

• Build large distributed services and tools used by other teams to detect and address problematic content on Roblox. These systems will involve high availability, security (authentication and access control), data integrity, and both automated and human workflows
• Build the services and tools responsible for improving accuracy and efficiency of finding inappropriate content
• Define the platform features used by teams across the company which will keep our community safe
• Resolve a variety of performance issues (networking, data, compute)
• Establish next-generation standards on the backend web and service stack

You Have:

• 8+ years of experience building large-scale backend services and shipping high quality products to production
• 4+ years of experience leading an engineering team and driving the execution of multiple impactful projects
• 8+ years of experience building REST or GraphQL-based APIs with compiled languages such as Go, Python, C#, or Java
• Proficiency in working with DynamoDB, Cassandra, CockroachDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server or other database technology at scale

Nice to Have:

• Experience building data pipelines with Kafka, Hive, Presto, Spark or other data warehousing technologies
• Experience building caching solutions using Memcached, Redis, or similar technologies
• Experience shipping production web apps using a JavaScript framework such as React, AngularJS, or Vue.js and proficiency with tools such as NPM, grunt, gulp, karma, or similar
• Familiar with common web application security issues
• BA/BS in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, or other technical field

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.  All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.Annual Salary Range$315,850—$383,910 USD

You’ll Love: 

• Industry-leading compensation package
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• A rewarding 401k program
• Flexible vacation policy
• Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy 
• Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
• At Roblox HQ: 
• Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
• Onsite fit