Working at ROBLOX

• ROBLOX is a high-traffic social game and virtual world for kids & teens
• We are a startup company in Redwood City, CA – and we have done this before
• We are funded by a leading venture capital firm and professional angel investors
• We are passionate about quality in everything we do
• We offer competitive benefits and stock options
• For more info, read our news and forum sections at www.roblox.com

If working with cutting edge technology to create something completely unique appeals to you, send your resume to jobs@roblox.com. Please include the position you are applying for in the subject line.

 

Current Openings

Senior Scalability Architect

SEO Web Engineer

Mac Game Developer / Platform Guru

C++ Game Programming Code Ninja

Game Development Intern

 

Senior Scalability Architect

ROBLOX is looking for a senior scalability engineer to help design and build our next generation social gaming web platform. In this role, you will:

• Select a highly scalable database sharding strategy – and then implement it
• Develop a site-wide integrated search capacity operating on terabytes of data
• Build a software replication layer to support search and business intelligence operations
• Create software that is failure tolerant and supports incremental production rollout
• Define metrics for predicting scalability pain points and documenting solutions
• Evaluate proprietary, open source, and home grown solutions
• Work through the entire hardware/software stack

ROBLOX is a 3D game, a social network, and a virtual economy with user-generated content – the feature set and technology stack are humungous. If you like being an engineer, ROBLOX is for you.

Requirements:

• BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or similar
• 5-10 years experience building production high-load web environments
• 3-5 years in a project or technical leadership role
• Experience with .NET, LAMP, or other web application stack
• Experienced with SQL, MySQL, Oracle or similar
• Experienced with SimpleDB, BigTable, or similar
• Knowledgeable of all relevant protocols
• Self-driven engineering contributor

Interesting/Plusses:

• Hands-on experience at a marquee social networking site
• Passionate about verifying decisions and actions with metrics
• Reads High Scalability website  and following the NoSQL movement
• Experienced in mixed database strategies that include traditional and cloud storage

SEO Web Engineer

ROBLOX is looking for a talented web engineer to serve as the technical lead of our search engine optimization team.  You will be working with our marketing lead to take our site to the top of the search engine listings. You’ll also work on non-SEO features, including social networking tools, our gaming and virtual goods catalogs, and site translation, among others.

Requirements:

• Hands on experience implementing SEO best practices on high traffic sites
• Knowledge of Google, Yahoo, and Bing search engine indexing and spidering methodology (meta-data, internal linking, URL structures)
• BS or MS in Computer Science or similar
• 3+ years with web application stack (.NET/LAMP/ Java/Ruby), and open to working in .NET
• Experienced with HTML/DHTML/XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax
• Experience with title and meta tags
• Motivation and skills to follow through with projects from concept to design to testing
• Demo examples of your past work a plus

Mac Game Developer / Platform Guru

We’re interested in hiring someone to port our C++ windows client with a physics engine to Macintosh OSX.  After that, we’ll have you join our bleeding edge game team to work on exciting new features for our game or port our game to the iphone/ ipod touch. We need someone who has experience working on both PC and Macintosh games. 

Who you are:

• Experienced game developer/porter
• Passionate about games, toys, and consumer products
• A college graduate with a degree in CS or equivalent education and experience
• Knowledgeable with C++, including STL and boost. 
• Experienced (3+ years) with OpenGL, DirectX, Ogre, Cocoa, and Objective-C++
• Fun and creative but totally serious when it comes to coding

Who we are:

• We are a startup company in Redwood City – and we have done this before
• We are funded by a leading venture capital firm and professional angel investors
• Our environment is dynamic – we release a new build every two weeks
• We are passionate about quality in everything we do

What you’ll do:

• Abstract out platform neutral libraries
• Port platform specific code to Mac OSX
• Create awesome new 3D game features
• Port to iPod touch
• Learn everything
• Pwn n00bs

What we’ll do:

• Pay you.
• Provide you with a dynamic work environment and skilled intelligent team members.
• Give you stock (And invite you to our fancy yacht parties when we’re all billionaires.)
• There will be cake.

 

C++ Game Programming Code Ninja

We are looking for someone who lives and breathes high quality game code.  Ideally, you wrote your first PacMan knockoff when you were in middle school.  We prefer to hire generalists – this position will involve interaction with graphics, user interface, networking, installer, physics, sound, scripting and build system code.  The perfect candidate will see our product and have a personal vision of how they can contribute to its future. This is your chance to join a professionally funded startup in a rapidly growing and fantastically fun market segment.

Requirements:

• BS or MS in CS or equivalent education or experience
• 3+ years experience C++ in a production environment
• Proven C++ skills, including STL and boost. 
• A proven history of achievement – creative, intellectual, academic, and/or professional
• Passion for games, toys, and/or consumer products
• Demo examples of your past work

What You'll Do:

• We're looking for a generalist who can work on any aspect of our game engine. You will wear many hats.
• Most of your time will be spent adding exciting new features to our product.
• You will have the gratifying experience of seeing your code go into production every couple of weeks.
• Millions of users will love what you created.

 

Game Development Intern

We are looking for a game development intern to help us roll out exciting new features. You’ll get a lot of great experience working at a small game studio. Your work will be shipped to thousands of players every couple of weeks. We’ll even pay you.

Requirements:

• You are a college sophomore, junior, senior, or graduate student
• You can commute to our offices in Redwood City, California
• You have technical skills: either you’re an intermediate-level C++ coder or you’re awesome with C# and .Net/Flash/AJAX/web client technologies
• You love games
  

Bonus:

• You have an online portfolio of relevant previous work/research/projects
• You have domain specific knowledge of something useful to game development. For example: graphics, networking, flashy web interfaces, writing importer/exporters, 3d modeling, audio programming, physics simulation, etc.
• You have artistic talent

Past Intern Projects:

While it is impossible to predict ahead of time what you will be working on, we try to give our interns complete projects that they can take charge of and work on. That way, at the end of the internship, you have something concrete to show for your time that you could point to in a job interview or put on your resume. Some of our past interns have:

• Created new building material shaders (concrete, grass, ice, slate, etc) for the game
• Worked on character control schemes in the engine
• Created in-game assets
• Created flash components for our website
• Helped develop new website features
• Worked on a mobile version of the ROBLOX site
• Built automated test suites
• Carried heavy things around the office