Senior Software Engineer - Release

Roblox; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 192,000 - 239,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming platform in San Mateo seeks a Senior Software Engineer - Release to develop crucial build and release tools for the Game Engine Team. The ideal candidate has over 4 years of experience in engineering tools and proficiency in programming languages like Python and C#. This role offers an annual salary range of $192,890 — $238,520 and includes equity compensation and benefits.

Benefits

Equity compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience building build and releasing engineering tools for teams of 15 or more.
• Proven experience in continuous integration, and multi-platform development environments.
• Hands on configuration management and CI tools experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop automation tools for our production release process.
• Maintain build and release tools.
• Integrate quality metrics and tools.

Skills

Python

C#

C++

Typescript

Bash scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar

Tools

TeamCity

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Overview

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 tools and a platform that empower our community to bring any experience 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 we’re 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 a Senior Software Engineer - Release, you will develop mission-critical build and release tools for the Roblox Game Engine Team. Using the tools you and your team develop, you will support all phases of the software life-cycle – including multi-platform build and release systems, continuous integration, crash reporting, and test environments. If you have experience delivering productivity and efficiency with state-of-the-art development tools, you'll be right at home within our experienced and growing Client and Game Engine Development Team.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop automation tools for our production release process - delivering gameplay to millions of concurrent players
• Maintain build and release tools
• Integrate quality metrics and tools
• Customize our continuous integration system to work with a growing team
• Improve integration between a version control, build, and incident tracking tools
• Collaborate with the team to improve overall build process reliability and scalability
• Upgrade, and maintain current production deployment systems
• Provide ongoing support for the code development lifecycle

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience building build and releasing engineering tools for engineering teams of 15 or more
• A bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science or similar
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, C#, C++, and Typescript; and scripting languages including Bash.
• Proven experience in continuous integration, and multi-platform development environments. We support development on multiple mobile and desktop environments.
• Hands on configuration management and CI tools experience like TeamCity, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins
• Improved full-cycle engineering development pipelines.

Compensation and Location

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 as described on this page. Annual Salary Range $192,890 — $238,520 USD.

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

Equal Opportunity and Accommodations

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.