ROBLOX Corporation: Senior Web Software Engineer - Online Building Game

Sr. Web Software Engineer  - Online Building Game

ROBLOX is one of the top ranked kids gaming sites on the internet!  ROBLOX is unique among gaming sites in that kids are the main architects of their own worlds.  Everything is customizable.  Kids build their own social hangouts, invite others in party mode, engage in online chat and create virtual items using our site and 3D game client.  We are a massively multi-player online game that uses physics to simulate the real world (with 1000s and 1000s of parts!).

·         Each month over 3 million unique visitors come to our site.

·         Our revenues have increased every quarter for the past two years.

·         Our team includes 12 top-notch engineers from NVidia, Pixar, Microsoft, Stanford, Berkeley and Cornell.

·         Thousands of our users create interesting 2D and 3D content every day.

·         We are backed by two VC firms that are highly ranked on thefunded.com 

·         We offer competitive  stock options

·         Our service is indescribably interesting and fun - we'll let you decide for yourself.

We are hiring a Sr. Web Software Engineer to be an integral member of the ROBLOX team.   We are looking someone who will be passionate about building something that scales beyond 100K+ users, as well as implementing creative and elegant solutions in order to store terabytes of data.

You will work on a variety of mission critical projects including:

·         Delivering web features that are distributed, latency tolerant and highly available.

·         Expanding our virtual economy

·         Enhancing our social networking functionality

·         Integrating with our 3D game client

·         Oversee all web application designs, test plans and rollout strategies.

·         Build game designs and frameworks to facilitate new kinds of game play

Requirements:

·         BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent experience

·         5+ years experience working on production high-load web applications

·         Experience with .NET, LAMP, Ruby, or other web application stack

·         Experienced with SQL, MySQL, Oracle or similar

·         Experienced with Amazon EC2, SimpleDB, or similar a plus

·         Passion for games

·         Demo examples of your past work a plus