Senior Software Engineer - Network Transport

Overview

Senior Network Transport Engineer on the Engine Networking Team, responsible for real-time communication of game state so players experience the game as a nearly synchronous world.

What you'll do

• Work across all areas of the game platform to achieve real-time communication of every part of Roblox.
• Help players experience the game as a nearly synchronous world by coordinating the computers involved into a smooth experience.

What you'll need

• 7+ years of experience with game networking coming from a game engine or studio.
• 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 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.
• Deep understanding of the network stack.
• Strong systems-level C++ programming experience, including smart pointers, templates, virtual functions, and structured and raw memory blocks.
• Experience with Linux networking, QoS, and congestion control algorithms.
• Understanding of what happens at the operating system level when certain code is completed.

Nice to have

• A passion for working with open source.
• Keen attention to each millisecond of network exchanges, knowing where the time goes and how to reduce waste.

Details

• Location: headquarters in San Mateo, CA.
• Roles based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
• Annual base salary range: $243,290 to $295,250 USD. Full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and benefits.
• For US-based roles only, the Company may not be able to employ candidates who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.