Principal Software Engineer, WebRTC

As a Principal Software Engineer, Audio-Video-Communication team, you'll be in charge of building our upcoming platform to bring multi-modal communication experience - voice chat, 3D audio, and large-scale broadcast, to our users. If you enjoy working on C++ software while building products for the passionate community of Roblox, you'll be right at home within our experienced and growing social team. You will work with our Engineering Managers and Directors within our Engine's team, and will report to our Manager of the Real-Time Communications team.

You Will:

• Build and launch the latest real-time communication platform from the ground up, designed to support billions of users.
• Employ best programming practices to write code that is efficient, maintainable, and scalable.
• Play a crucial role in the introduction of high-quality communication features/products on a wide range of devices, from mobile to high-end platforms.
• Enhance the robustness and performance of existing components
• Collaborate with engineers across engine and partner teams to create synergistic solutions

You Have:

• Over 8+ years of experience developing and deploying user-facing software products.
• Successfully deployed a high-quality, multi-service distributed system at scale with low costs.
• Familiarity with the challenges of working at scale and on constrained platforms like consoles or mobile devices.
• Experience in performance optimization (working in Kernel, Assembly, C, and memory management).
• Proficiency in C++ and an understanding of parallel/concurrent programming concepts
• A grasp of industry standards, best practices, and design patterns
• Approached problems from multiple perspectives, weighing the advantages and drawbacks of different solutions

You Are:

• Enthusiastic about crafting software programming environments for game developers, eager to apply insights from multiple programming ecosystems to our scripting environment
• Able to navigate complex codebases
• Developing systems that are not just effective but also resilient over time
• Inquisitive, constantly learning and keeping abreast of the latest trends in scripting languages and programming environments

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

$295,250—$345,040 USD

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

For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.