Senior Software Engineer - Matchmaking

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 the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine 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 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 with the Matchmaking team, you'll have the opportunity to build and own end-to-end mission-critical services within the Roblox ecosystem. You'll impact Roblox's matchmaking decisions by helping to select the best game server possible for every play request is a o(n²) problem. The system supports several millions of concurrent players. Additionally, the game orchestration system handles games spread across data centers distributed all over the world, which are growing to support Roblox' terrific growth. The Matchmaking team's mission is to provide the best player experience by choosing the best game possible and handle game orchestration by ensuring performance across Roblox worldwide data centers.

You Will:

• Work on experimentation, data-driven projects and partner with data teammates to achieve the best player experience possible. You'll also work on the Matchmaking algorithm system to improve the quality of the matchmaking decision.

• Help create the next generation of the Matchmaking system, built to support up to 1B monthly active users.

You Have:

• Experience architecting, designing, and developing a wide-array of software products.

• Experience building available distributed systems, and are familiar with NoSQL/NewSQL systems.

• Knowledge of REST, API design patterns, and scalable containerized systems and microservices.

• Knowledge of systems engineering is a plus.

• A Computer-Science graduate or MS graduate.

• 4+ years of experience.

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
$242,100—$293,800 USD

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

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.