Why User Behavior?

Safety and Civility is Roblox’s #1 priority and our mission is to protect our community. As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend), you will be part of the highest priority organization at Roblox that features diverse work in product/mobile engineering, machine learning, data engineering, and traditional high throughput and low latency microservices to detect issues in real time. You’ll be focused on building the infrastructure to monitor the user’s behavior and move it toward more civil engagement. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about solving problems that haven’t been solved before with a user-facing focus. Our clients serve over 65M Daily Active Users and thousands of internal tools users who support our community. You will have a high impact and will directly affect our hundreds of millions of monthly users. This role reports to the Senior Engineering Manager - User Behavior.

You Are:

• A Senior Technical Contributor: You have built complex technical solutions. Your technical expertise and track record of project delivery influences product direction. You foster a culture of technical excellence.
• Excited to build consumer-facing products at high scale
• Passionate about building products for online communities
• Versatile: Comfortable with learning and using several languages and technologies. You are resourceful, and take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems.
• Analytical: Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and measure the problems and the solutions.
• User Oriented: You always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers before architecting a solution.
• Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger and want to grow as a mentor.
• Interested in keeping the next generation of internet users safe and civil as they interact online

You Will:

• Help build backend services across large distributed systems
• Manage writing unit and integration tests
• Determine and resolve performance issues
• Follow and help establish next-generation standards on the backend web and service stack
• Participate in building the world’s best user generated gaming platform
• Report to the Engineering Manager of Safety & Civility

You Have:

• 4+ years of experience building highly-available and large-scale distributed backend services
• 4+ years of experience building and shipping products to production
• 4+ years of experience working on multi-person codebases, including open-source or personal projects
• Familiarity with Python, Go, or C# is a plus
• Bonus points for experience using big data query/processing languages and tools such as SQL, Hive, Spark and Airflow