Senior Software Engineer, NPC & Digital Players

Roblox; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 197,000 - 243,000; Full time

Job summary

Roblox is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Creator Service NPC team in San Mateo, CA. You will design and build scalable systems that help creators deliver native-feeling experiences, and you will work on data pipelines, visualization, feature transformation, and ML inference setups within our game engine.

Join us to tackle cross-functional challenges, collaborate with product and design teams, and shape the NPC tools and digital players used by millions of players across Roblox worlds.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing and leading implementation of scalable distributed backend systems.
• Hands-on experience with microservices.
• Hands-on experience with game engines.
• Proficient in one or more programming languages (C#, Lua, C++, Go, Python).

Responsibilities

• Tackle and solve challenging full-stack problems touching the client, game engine, backend services, and ML models.
• Own product areas and projects from design through launch and iteration based on feedback.
• Collaborate with product, design, and partner teams to maintain high execution quality and pace.
• Proactively gather community feedback and respond to needs to evolve products.

Skills

Distributed backend systems

Microservices

Game engines

Programming languages (C#, Lua, C++,Go

Job description

Roblox is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Creator Service NPC team in San Mateo, CA. You will design and build scalable systems that help creators deliver native-feeling experiences, and you will work on data pipelines, visualization, feature transformation, and ML inference setups within our game engine.

Join us to tackle cross-functional challenges, collaborate with product and design teams, and shape the NPC tools and digital players used by millions of players across Roblox worlds.