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.
As the Senior Software Engineer for the Music pod within the Creator Content Group you will help us create a global platform the world has never seen before, ushering in a new category of human co-experience from live streaming, concerts (beyond internally co-ordinated concerts) to eventually wanting to offer music production APIs.
You and your team will be in charge of the design, end-to-end architecture, implementation and delivery of a platform for the community to discover and create music.
You Will:
- Report to the Senior Engineering Manager of Creator Content Music.
- Enable rich presentation of the breadth of music content including advanced automatic ML-based tagging and feature discovery.
- Work with your product and policy partners to determine the roadmap and lead project execution.
- Work with other engineering teams and with the broader Content team to build technical systems.
You Have:
- Experience: 6+ Years of experience in building critically acclaimed consumer applications that impact millions of users' lives.
- Technical ability: Expertise in building scalable backend distributed systems. You have worked with containerized backend microservices.
- Product focus: You have experience working with cross-functional teams to build backends to support consumer-facing products. Experience involving user-generated content.
You Are:
- An outstanding software engineer with 6+ years shipping full-stack software.
- You are experienced with some of the technologies in our stack like C#, TypeScript, React, and CSS.
- Motivated to complete projects, take ownership of setting and clarifying product requirements, and build features from end-to-end.
- You relish the challenge of building a unified, powerful technical platform that can be leveraged for evolving requirements without needing major refactors.
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
$192,890—$238,520 USD
Roles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
You’ll Love:
- Industry-leading compensation package
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- A rewarding 401k program
- Flexible vacation policy (varies by exemption status)
- 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 fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations for all candidates during the interview process.
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Roblox is an immersive gaming and creation platform that offers people millions of ways to be together, inviting its community to explore, create and share endless unique experiences. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together — in a world that's safe, civil, and optimistic. To achieve this vision, we are building an innovative company that, together with the Roblox community, has the ability to strengthen our social fabric and support economic growth for people around the world.
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