Systems Software Engineer - Game Engine Network (C++)

The Engine Networking Team pulls the players together by ensuring the communication of the game state to all. As a Senior Network Transport Engineer you will help the players experience the game as a nearly synchronous world. Just as the nerves in our bodies coordinate our actions, the network system coordinates all the computers involved into a smooth experience for the players. You will work in all areas of the game platform in your quest for real-time communication of every part of Roblox.

You Have:

• Worked on a powerful user-space network stack, solving problems related to scale, performance, latency, and throughput in client/server environments.
• Worked on a very large multithreaded distributed system that connects millions of users worldwide.
• Worked on all the devices Roblox supports - from desktop clients to mobile phone clients to console clients
• Worked on a game engine and understand how a game engine works

You Are:

• A software engineer with 4+ years of experience with Game networking coming from a Game Engine/Studio
• A deep understanding of Network Stack with a passion for working with open source
• Strong systems-level C++ programming experience and fascinated by the actual work the CPU does when you use smart pointers, templates, virtual functions, and blocks of memory, both structured and raw
• Experience with Linux networking and have a good understanding of common network protocols
• Keen to each millisecond of the network exchanges: You know where the time goes and how to reduce the waste
• Understanding of what happens on the operating systems level when certain code is completed