Senior Software Engineer - Network Transport

Roblox Corporation; San Mateo (CA); Presencial; USD 243.000 - 295.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Roblox Corporation in San Mateo, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Network Transport to advance real-time multiplayer and scalable networking for billions of sessions.

You will work on a large distributed system, contribute to a user-space network stack, and drive performance in a cross-device game engine.

Join a team that ships high-scale networking features and helps enable immersive experiences for a global community.

Formación

• 7+ years of experience in game networking from a game engine or studio.
• Strong systems-level C++ programming experience.
• Experience with Linux networking and congestion control is a plus.
• Experience with large-scale, multi-device platforms.

Responsabilidades

• Ensure real-time game state communication across a large distributed platform.
• Collaborate across the engine, networking, and platform teams to optimize latency and throughput.
• Investigate and reduce network waste by profiling and tuning code paths.

Conocimientos

Game networking

C++

Distributed systems

Linux networking

Open source

Descripción del empleo

Senior Software Engineer - Network Transport

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.

The Engine Networking Team pulls the players together by ensuring the communication of the game state to all. As a Senior Network Transport Engineer you will help the players experience the game as a nearly synchronous world. Just as the nerves in our bodies coordinate our actions, the network system coordinates all the computers involved into a smooth experience for the players. You will work in all areas of the game platform in your quest for real-time communication of every part of Roblox.

You Have:

• Worked on a powerful user-space network stack, solving problems related to scale, performance, latency, and throughput in client/server environments.
• Worked on a very large multithreaded distributed system that connects millions of users worldwide.
• Worked on all the devices Roblox supports - from desktop clients to mobile phone clients to console clients
• Worked on a game engine and understand how a game engine works

You Are:

• A software engineer with 7+ years of experience with Game networking coming from a Game Engine/Studio
• A deep understanding of Network Stack with a passion for working with open source
• Strong systems-level C++ programming experience and fascinated by the actual work the CPU does when you use smart pointers, templates, virtual functions, and blocks of memory, both structured and raw
• Experience with Linux networking, QoS, Congestion Control Algorithms.
• Keen to each millisecond of the network exchanges: You know where the time goes and how to reduce the waste
• Understanding of what happens on the operating systems level when certain code is completed

Annual Salary Range

$243,290 — $295,250 USD

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

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 to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.