Principal Software Engineer (WebRTC)
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Description
- As a Principal Software Engineer, Audio-Video-Communication team, you’ll be in charge of building our upcoming platform to bring multi-modal communication experience - voice chat, 3D audio, and large-scale broadcast, to our users
- If you enjoy working on C++ software while building products for the passionate community of Roblox, you’ll be right at home within our experienced and growing social team
- You will work with our Engineering Managers and Directors within our Engine’s team, and will report to our Manager of the Real-Time Communications team
- Build and launch the latest real-time communication platform from the ground up, designed to support billions of users
- Employ best programming practices to write code that is efficient, maintainable, and scalable
- Play a crucial role in the introduction of high-quality communication features/products on a wide range of devices, from mobile to high-end platforms
- Enhance the robustness and performance of existing components
- Collaborate with engineers across engine and partner teams to create synergistic solutions
- A grasp of industry standards, best practices, and design patterns
- Approached problems from multiple perspectives, weighing the advantages and drawbacks of different solutions
- Familiarity with the challenges of working at scale and on constrained platforms like consoles or mobile devices
- Proficiency in C++ and an understanding of parallel/concurrent programming concepts
- Over 8+ years of experience developing and deploying user-facing software products
- Experience in performance optimization (working in Kernel, Assembly, C, and memory management)
- Successfully deployed a high-quality, multi-service distributed system at scale with low costs
- Enthusiastic about crafting software programming environments for game developers, eager to apply insights from multiple programming ecosystems to our scripting environment
- Able to navigate complex codebases
- Developing systems that are not just effective but also resilient over time
- Inquisitive, constantly learning and keeping abreast of the latest trends in scripting languages and programming environments