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Senior Software Engineer - Desktop

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Senior Software Engineer - Desktop in USA

  • San Mateo, CA

Responsibilities

  • Shape and improve the Windows and macOS desktop experience for millions of Roblox players.
  • Own major desktop initiatives end-to-end from ambiguous idea through shipping, measurement, and iteration.
  • Rebuild and improve application launch, rendering, and operating-system integration components.
  • Set technical standards through hands-on development, code review, mentorship, and quality improvements.
  • Make platform investments that benefit engineering teams beyond the Desktop team.
  • Translate ambiguous product ideas into scoped engineering plans with product, design, and data science partners.
  • Collaborate with Microsoft and Apple counterparts on platform feature ubiquity and excellence.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience shipping client software.
  • Deep C++ expertise and the ability to work effectively in a large, established codebase.
  • Experience releasing significant Windows or macOS applications and strong knowledge of their platforms and APIs.
  • Strong debugging and profiling skills, including tracing, crash root-cause analysis, and performance diagnosis across the client stack and diverse consumer hardware.
  • Fluency with concurrency, threading models, and memory management.
  • Data-driven approach using metrics, logging, and experiments to evaluate features.
  • Ability to break down ambiguous problems, drive projects to completion, communicate clearly, build cross-functional trust, and improve other engineers.
  • Experience with Lua or React is a plus.

Benefits

  • Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and benefits.
  • Office-based roles are onsite Tuesday through Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday.
  • The listed base salary applies to roles based at the San Mateo, California headquarters and may vary based on job-related factors.

Salary: $197k - $243k/yr

Roblox

Roblox's vision is to reimagine the way people come together. Our mission is to connect a billion people with optimism and civility. What is Roblox? Roblox is a platform where people come together virtually to share experiences. Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to ...

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