Senior Software Engineer - Creator Toolchain

Job Description 

Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to Roblox to play, learn, work, and socialize in immersive digital experiences created by the community.

Our vision is to build a platform that enables shared experiences among billions of users. This is what’s known as the metaverse: a persistent space where anyone can do just about anything they can imagine, from anywhere in the world and on any device. The breadth of opportunities, and the evolving demands of this first-of-its-kind platform, ensure that your avenues for growth are always expanding and flexible.

Are you passionate about building the tools that empower millions of creators? Do you thrive on the challenge of creating a unified and powerful development experience? The Luau Toolchain pod at Roblox is seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to help us build the future of our internal and external creator ecosystem. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Luau Toolchain pod, you are responsible for the success of experienced and mature developers internally and externally. You will build solutions that benefit both, ultimately uniting our internal and external development toolchains and delivering wins and features to create a best-in-class development experience.

You Will:

• Plan and deliver complex technical features E2E in our game engine and in the Studio UI that will allow internal engineers and external creators to grow in our community
• Extend our architecture to enable new internal use cases to be built on technology our creators use today
• Work cross functionally, across teams and technology platforms to deliver high quality and amazing user functionality
• Lead by example and mentor engineers to implement technological best practices, patterns, and strategies
• Improve the product quality by fostering automation testing
• Participate in building the world's best professional application for massively multiplayer game development

You Are:

• Experienced: you have at least 6+ years experience and you've worked on deep and challenging problems with large-scale systems such as game engines, along with experience in C++ codebases. You hold a BS or MS in Computer Science, or have equivalent practical experience. 
• Responsible: you build systems that work and keep on working reliably. You are rigorous in handling potential failure cases, and diligent in automated testing
• Curious: you want to learn, and stay up-to-date on technology developments
• Collaborative: Excellent communication skills and follow-through
• Familiarity with file storage systems or network protocols (Bonus)