Senior Software Engineer - Search & DiscoveryRobloxSan Mateo, CA, United States9 minutes agoApplyEvery 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.Why Discovery:With Roblox’s daily active users growing at a record pace, we are seeking experienced software engineers who thrive on solving complex challenges and designing scalable, ground breaking solutions. In this role, you will develop our backend systems that power the most used surface areas of the app, across Home, Search, Notifications, and more.You will contribute to the cutting-edge real-time recommendation engines and a powerful backend that drives ML ranking that enable users to discover and interact with experiences across Roblox. These systems drive exploration and engagement across all surfaces, helping users find relevant and exciting content. Looking ahead, our team aims to innovate further through experimentation, building distributed systems to support our scale, and driving new, bold customer features.Our mission is to connect a billion users with the best content and connections at the right time, tackling diverse challenges in advertising, search, and discovery at an unprecedented scale. Join us and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Roblox’s search and discovery systems.You Will:Design and build the systems architecture that powers Roblox content recommendation, search and distribution across surfaces.Lead the design and implementation necessary to grow the backend infrastructure across our tech stack of C#, Go, and several data pipeline technologies.Collaborate with other teams (Social, Economy, Platform) within Roblox to make sure we are building products with a community first approach.Balance researching new technologies with a practical approach to accomplish the research efforts into the Roblox productsCommunicate with the industry and communities where applicable and be ambassador for Roblox.You Have:4+ years of experience building and shipping products to production.3+ years of demonstrated ability developing systems at scale.3+ years of server-side architecture/design and compiled language experience such as C#, Java, C++, or others.Experience designing and building full-stack systems behind consumer-facing APIs that can handle large numbers of concurrent users.Graduate degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, or other technical field is a plusYou Are:User oriented: While deeply technical, you always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers.Creative: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems. You simplify the complex. You bring in fresh ideas from new places.Versatile: You're a generalist and you are comfortable with several languages and technologies already; you are adaptable in any situation. You are resourceful, and take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems.Analytical: Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and quantify the problems and the solutions.Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger.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.Annual Salary Range$222,910 — $289,460 USDRoles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).You’ll Love:Industry-leading compensation packageExcellent medical, dental, and vision coverageA rewarding 401k programFlexible vacation policy (varies by exemption status)Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policyRoblox Admin badge for your avatarAt Roblox HQ:Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacksOnsite fitness center and fitness program creditAnnual CalTrain Go PassRoblox 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. 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