Senior Software Engineer, Messaging

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Communication team, you will play a vital role in defining the core client architecture for diverse communication features integrated throughout our client stack, including the game engine. You will collaborate closely with teams across Engine, Apps, Avatar, Creator, and Trust & Safety to develop engaging communication experiences, allowing users to express themselves through Voice, Camera, and Text at scale, replicating real-world interactions while ensuring optimal performance and resource efficiency. Your responsibilities will also include comprehensive client profiling and analysis to pinpoint areas for enhancement. If you are passionate about low-level client development, tackling complex technical challenges, creating scalable and high-performance user experiences, and envisioning innovative and safe communication features, this is an ideal opportunity for you.

You Will:

• Design and architect solutions in the game engine layer using C++, creating a robust foundation for communication features to work on low-end to high-end devices.
• Enhance our client-side communication infrastructure (chat, voice, etc.) by investigating performance bottlenecks and scalability issues. Strategically invest in improvements to prepare the platform for future product advancements to support a billion people.
• Collaborate with client engineers to assess core components and frameworks, contributing to the client architecture strategy by providing communication use case insights.
• Partner closely with other engineers to ship high-quality communication products and features across diverse platforms - mobile, desktop, console, etc.
• Introduce and improve our processes to help us be more effective and efficient.
• Enforce high quality standards while we iterate on feature development.
• Self-organize and take ownership of projects throughout its full lifecycle.
• Help recruit future talent and mentor engineers in the team

You Have:

• 4+ years of experience developing complex C++ applications, running on multiple platforms like PCs, mobile devices (iOS and Android), and/or game consoles.
• Experience working on lower levels of client stack, browser/layout engines, game engines or other UI framework development systems.
• Experience in performance profiling and optimization (things like memory management, rendering, etc.)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience​.
• [Bonus] Experience working on sophisticated user interfaces, implementing complex frontend systems for large-scale applications​ in close collaboration with product and design partners.

You Are:

• Detailed: You are detail oriented and like to dig deep to understand the nuances while keeping things simple for our customers. You like building abstractions that hide complexity and make things transparent.
• Knowledgeable: You understand all aspects of designing and building high performant clients and robust systems that are extensible and reliable.
• Curious: Learning new languages and technologies is exciting to you as you will be working on a React inspired UI platform and Roblox game engine.
• Creative: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems and envisioning ways to optimize and grow the capabilities of the system. You have a vision for what can make a product phenomenal.
• Team-oriented: You can work well as part of a team and know how to collaborate with all participants to develop the best solutions. You are happy to share your knowledge with everyone on the team.