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Macintosh Platform Engineer - Web/Game Startup in San Mateo

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:52:56 GMT

Macintosh Platform Engineer –Web/Game Startup

Hi! ROBLOX is a virtual world and building game for kids. Users make games in our dynamic environment and invite other kids to play in the world that they have created. People have described us as "erector set meets virtual world", except that we're way cooler than both of those things.

• We are one of the fastest growing game and kid sites in 2009, according to comScore. We are also one of the stickiest sites on the internet.
• Each month over 2 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, Microsoft, Stanford, Berkeley and Cornell.
• Thousands of our users create interesting content every day.
• We are backed by two VC firms that are highly ranked on thefunded.com
• We have a deep technology stack. Our team dabbles in everything from S3 and EC2 cloud services to SIMD and assembly code. On top of that throw in a bunch of web servers and SQL databases, cross-platform 3D graphics code and a highly scalable physics engine and you get the idea.
• Our service is indescribably interesting and fun – we’ll let you decide for yourself.
• We prefer to hire generalists – this position will involve interaction with graphics, user interface, networking, installer, physics, sound, scripting and coding. The ideal candidate will be a team player that has always been one of the all-stars of his or her company.
Requirements:

• Experience as a game developer
• BS or MS in Computer Science or similar education and experience
• Knowledgeable with C++, including STL and boost
• Experience (3+ years) with OpenGL, DirectX, Ogre, Cocoa, and Objective-C++
• Demo examples of your past work and side projects are a plus

Interested in an opportunity to be part of something unique? Email your resume to jobs@roblox.com

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Software Engineer - C++/Lua - Web/Game Startup in San Mateo

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:52:56 GMT

Software Engineer - C++/Lua - Web/Game Startup

Hi! ROBLOX is a virtual world and building game for kids. Users make games in our dynamic environment and invite other kids to play in the world that they have created. People have described us as "erector set meets virtual world", except that we're way cooler than both of those things.

• We are one of the fastest growing game and kid sites in 2009, according to comScore. We are also one of the stickiest sites on the internet.
• Each month over 2 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, Microsoft, Stanford, Berkeley and Cornell.
• Thousands of our users create interesting content every day.
• We are backed by two VC firms that are highly ranked on thefunded.com
• We have a deep technology stack. Our team dabbles in everything from S3 and EC2 cloud services to SIMD and assembly code. On top of that throw in a bunch of web servers and SQL databases, cross-platform 3D graphics code and a highly scalable physics engine and you get the idea.
• Our service is indescribably interesting and fun – we’ll let you decide for yourself.
• We prefer to hire generalists – this position will involve interaction with graphics, user interface, networking, installer, physics, sound, scripting and coding. The ideal candidate will be a team player that has always been one of the all-stars of his or her company.

Requirements:

o BS or MS in Computer Science or similar
o 3+ years experience C++ in a production environment
o Proven C++ skills, including STL and boost.
o Demos of past work and personal side projects a plus!

Interested in an opportunity to be part of something unique? Email your resume to jobs@roblox.com

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Senior Web Software Engineer - Online Building Game in San Mateo

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:52:56 GMT

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

Please send resumes directly to jobs@roblox.com

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Senior VP of Operations/COO - Web/Game Startup in San Mateo

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:52:56 GMT

Senior VP of Operations/COO – Web/Game Startup

Hi! ROBLOX is a virtual world and building game for kids. Users make games in our dynamic environment and invite other kids to play in the world that they have created. People have described us as "erector set meets virtual world", except that we're way cooler than both of those things.

• We are one of the fastest growing game and kid sites in 2009, according to comScore. We are also one of the stickiest sites on the internet.
• Each month over 2 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, Microsoft, Stanford, Berkeley and Cornell.
• Thousands of our users create interesting content every day.
• We are backed by two VC firms that are highly ranked on thefunded.com
• We have a deep technology stack. Our team dabbles in everything from S3 and EC2 cloud services to SIMD and assembly code. On top of that throw in a bunch of web servers and SQL databases, cross-platform 3D graphics code and a highly scalable physics engine and you get the idea.
• Our service is indescribably interesting and fun – we’ll let you decide for yourself.

ROBLOX is looking for a motivated, experienced, and hands-on Senior VP of Operations/COO to help do all of the things that makes ROBLOX go:

• Oversee our customer service and moderation teams
• Leverage customer service as an ideas engine for improving our product
• Manage all recruiting efforts
• Interface with our accountant and lawyers
• Handle all corporate / stock issues

QUALIFICATIONS
• BS in computer science, statistics, or equivalent, MBA a plus
• 3-7+ years experience in business operations
• Excellent analytical and technical skills – you are expert in Excel and love pivot tables
• Ability to think strategically and execute in a highly detail oriented manner
• Able to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment and remain calm under pressure
• Team player with experience managing and building teams
• Experience in gaming or with startups is a plus

Interested in an opportunity to be part of something unique? Email your resume to jobs@roblox.com

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Infrastructure Architect - Web/Game Startup in San Mateo

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:52:56 GMT

Infrastructure Architect – Web/Game Startup

Hi! ROBLOX is a virtual world and building game for kids. Users make games in our dynamic environment and invite other kids to play in the world that they have created. People have described us as "erector set meets virtual world", except that we're way cooler than both of those things.

• We are one of the fastest growing game and kid sites in 2009, according to comScore. We are also one of the stickiest sites on the internet.
• Each month over 2 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, Microsoft, Stanford, Berkeley and Cornell.
• Thousands of our users create interesting content every day.
• We are backed by two VC firms that are highly ranked on thefunded.com
• We have a deep technology stack. Our team dabbles in everything from S3 and EC2 cloud services to SIMD and assembly code. On top of that throw in a bunch of web servers and SQL databases, cross-platform 3D graphics code and a highly scalable physics engine and you get the idea.
• Our service is indescribably interesting and fun – we’ll let you decide for yourself.
• We prefer to hire generalists – this position will involve interaction with graphics, user interface, networking, installer, physics, sound, scripting and coding. The ideal candidate will be a team player that has always been one of the all-stars of his or her company.

ROBLOX is looking for a scalability engineer to help design and build our next generation social gaming web platform. In this role, you will:

• Select a highly scalable database sharding/clustering strategy – and then implement it
• Develop a site-wide integrated search capacity operating on terabytes of data
• Build a software replication layer to support search and business intelligence operations
• Create software that is failure tolerant and supports incremental production rollout
• Define metrics for predicting scalability pain points and documenting solutions
• Evaluate proprietary, open source, and home grown solutions
• Work through the entire hardware/software stack

Requirements:
• BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or similar
• 5-10 years experience building production high-load web environments
• 3-5 years in a project or technical leadership role
• Experience with .NET, LAMP, Ruby, or other web application stack
• Experienced with SQL, MySQL, Oracle or similar
• Experienced with SimpleDB, BigTable, or similar

Interesting/Plusses
• Hands-on experience at a marquee social networking site
• Passionate about verifying decisions and actions with metrics
• Reads High Scalability website and following the NoSQL movement
• Experienced in mixed database strategies that include traditional and cloud storage

Interested in an opportunity to be part of something unique? Email your resume to jobs@roblox.com

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Senior Web Engineer (middle tier) in San Mateo

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:20:11 GMT

Senior Web Engineer (middle tier)

Roblox is a virtual world and building game for kids. Users make games in our dynamic environment and invite other kids to play in the world that they have created. People have described us as "erector set meets virtual world", except that we're way cooler than both of those things. Want proof? Check us out on YouTube, Comscore (we have the highest engagement of any kids site) or www.roblox.com

ROBLOX is looking for a senior web engineer to join our infrastructure team and help design and build our next generation social gaming web platform. In this role you will:

· Implement a highly scalable search service (e.g. SOLR/Lucene)

· Develop crawling technology to support search and other business analytics

· Build middleware that leverages a highly scalable database sharding/clustering layer

· Design and deliver new features for the web portion of our game (e.g. social networking)

· Work through the entire software stack

· Contribute to system-wide architecture

REQUIREMENTS

· BS or MS in CS or equivalent education or experience

· 3+ years experience building production high-load web environments

· 3+ years experience with web application stack (.NET / LAMP / Java / Ruby)

· Experience with MSSQL/MySQL, Web Services, IIS, or equivalent

· Experience with SimpleDB, BigTable, or similar a plus

About ROBLOX:

· ROBLOX is a social game and virtual world for kids & teens – 1M+ hit our site each month

· We are a startup company in Redwood City, CA – and we have done this before

· We are funded by a leading venture capital firm and professional angel investors

· We are passionate about quality in everything we do

· We offer competitive benefits and stock options

· For more info, read our news and forum sections at www.roblox.com

If working with cutting edge technology to create something completely unique appeals to you and you meet the above requirements - send your resume to jobs@roblox.com

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Senior Web Developer (front-end) in San Mateo

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:20:11 GMT

Senior Web Developer (front-end)

Roblox is a virtual world and building game for kids. Users make games in our dynamic environment and invite other kids to play in the world that they have created. People have described us as "erector set meets virtual world", except that we're way cooler than both of those things. Want proof? Check us out on You Tube, Comscore (we have the highest engagement of any kids site) or www.roblox.com.

ROBLOX is looking for a senior engineer to join our web team. You will work on our gaming and virtual goods catalogs, social networking features, the ROBLOX API, translation, SEO, and various features to support our gaming client. You will also own your project from design to production.

ROBLOX is a 3D game, a social network, and a virtual economy with user-generated content – the feature set and technology stack are humungous. If you like being an engineer, ROBLOX is for you.

REQUIREMENTS

· BS or MS in Computer Science or similar

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

· 3+ years with web application stack (.NET/LAMP/ Java/Ruby), and open to working in .NET

· Experienced with HTML/DHTML/XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax

· Motivation and skills to follow through with projects from concept to design to testing

· Knowledge of Google, Yahoo, and Bing search engine indexing and spidering a plus

· Demo examples of your past work a plus

About ROBLOX

· ROBLOX is a social game and virtual world for kids & teens – 1M+ hit our site each month

· We are a startup company in Redwood City, CA – and we have done this before

· We are funded by a leading venture capital firm and professional angel investors

· We are passionate about quality in everything we do

· We offer competitive benefits and stock options

· For more info, read our news and forum sections at www.roblox.com

If working with cutting edge technology to create something completely unique appeals to you and you meet the following requirements - send your resume to jobs@roblox.com. Only resumes sent to jobs@roblox.com will be read.

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Senior Scalability Architect in San Mateo

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:20:11 GMT

Senior Scalability Architect

Roblox is a virtual world and building game for kids. Users make games in our dynamic environment and invite other kids to play in the world that they have created. People have described us as "erector set meets virtual world", except that we're way cooler than both of those things. Want proof? Check us out on You Tube, Comscore (we have the highest engagement of any kids site) or www.roblox.com

ROBLOX is looking for a senior scalability engineer to help design and build our next generation social gaming web platform. In this role, you will:

· Select a highly scalable database sharding/clustering strategy – and then implement it

· Develop a site-wide integrated search capacity operating on terabytes of data

· Build a software replication layer to support search and business intelligence operations

· Create software that is failure tolerant and supports incremental production rollout

· Define metrics for predicting scalability pain points and documenting solutions

· Evaluate proprietary, open source, and home grown solutions

· Work through the entire hardware/software stack

ROBLOX is a 3D game, a social network, and a virtual economy with user-generated content – the feature set and technology stack are humungous. If you like being an engineer, ROBLOX is for you.

Requirements:

· BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or similar

· 5-10 years experience building production high-load web environments

· 3-5 years in a project or technical leadership role

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

· Experienced with SQL, MySQL, Oracle or similar

· Experienced with SimpleDB, BigTable, or similar

· Knowledgeable of all relevant protocols

· Self-driven engineering contributor

Interesting/Plusses

· Hands-on experience at a marquee social networking site

· Passionate about verifying decisions and actions with metrics

· Reads High Scalability website and following the NoSQL movement

· Experienced in mixed database strategies that include traditional and cloud storage

About ROBLOX:

· ROBLOX is a social game and virtual world for kids & teens – 1M+ hit our site each month

· We are a startup company in Redwood City, CA – and we have done this before

· We are funded by a leading venture capital firm and professional angel investors

· We are passionate about quality in everything we do

· We offer competitive benefits and stock options

· For more info, read our news and forum sections at www.roblox.com

If working with cutting edge technology to create something completely unique appeals to you and you meet the above requirements - send your resume to jobs@roblox.com. Only resumes sent to jobs@roblox.com will be read.

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Jr. Game Engineer/C++ Code Messiah in San Mateo

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:20:11 GMT

C++ Code Messiah – fast growing VC backed startup

Roblox is a virtual world and building game for kids. Users make games in our dynamic environment and invite other kids to play in the world that they have created. People have described us as "erector set meets virtual world", except that we're way cooler than both of those things. Want proof? Check us out on You Tube, Comscore (we have the highest engagement of any kids site) or www.roblox.com

ROBLOX users have created a stunning assortment of games. There’s your basic cops-and-robbers style romps though brick cities, but there are also flight simulators, soccer matches, RPGs (both dice rolling and shoulder mounted), racing games, demolition derbies, paintball capture the flag, castle stormings – the list goes on. In fact, a new ROBLOX place is uploaded every 10 seconds. There are quite literally more games on ROBLOX than you could ever play.

For more fun, go to YouTube and search “ROBLOX”.

We are looking for someone who lives and breathes high quality game code. Ideally, you wrote your first PacMan knockoff when you were in middle school. We prefer to hire generalists – this position will involve interaction with graphics, user interface, networking, installer, physics, sound, scripting and build system code. The perfect candidate will see our product and have a personal vision of how they can contribute to its future.

This is your chance to join a professionally funded startup in a rapidly growing and fantastically fun market segment.

Requirements:

· BS or MS in CS or equivalent education or experience

· 3+ years experience C++ in a production environment

· Proven C++ skills, including STL and boost.

· A proven history of achievement – creative, intellectual, academic, and/or professional

· Passion for games, toys, and/or consumer products

· Demo examples of your past work

About ROBLOX:

· ROBLOX is a social game and virtual world for kids & teens – 1M+ hit our site each month

· We are a startup company in Redwood City, CA – and we have done this before

· We are funded by a leading venture capital firm and professional angel investors

· We are passionate about quality in everything we do

· We offer competitive benefits and stock options

· For more info, read our news and forum sections at www.roblox.com

To apply, send your resume and interesting cover letter to jobs@roblox.com
Only resumes sent to jobs@roblox.com will be read.

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Apple Game Engineer in San Mateo

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:20:11 GMT

Apple Game Engineer – online virtual world

Roblox is a virtual world and building game for kids. Users make games in our dynamic environment and invite other kids to play in the world that they have created. People have described us as "erector set meets virtual world", except that we're way cooler than both of those things. Want proof? Check us out on You Tube, Comscore (we have the highest engagement of any kids site) or www.roblox.com.

ROBLOX is looking for an experienced OSX game engineer to lead our software development efforts on the Apple product line. You will design and build the Mac counterpart to our Windows 3D gaming client, and help make our C++ physics engine cross platform. You will also lead the development of an entirely new ROBLOX feature set targeted specifically at the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad. Finally, you will be part of our bleeding-edge game team and work on exciting new features for all our users to enjoy.

Requirements:

· Experience as a game developer

· BS or MS in Computer Science or similar

· Knowledgeable with C++, including STL and boost

· Experience (3+ years) with OpenGL, DirectX, Ogre, Cocoa, and Objective-C++

· Experience developing cross-platform code between OSX and Windows

· Passionate about games, toys, and consumer products

· Demo examples of your past work a plus

About ROBLOX:

· ROBLOX is a social game and virtual world for kids & teens – 1M+ hit our site each month

· We are a startup company in Redwood City, CA – and we have done this before

· We are funded by leading venture capital firms and professional angel investors

· Our environment is dynamic – we release a new build every two weeks

· We are passionate about quality in everything we do

· We offer competitive benefits and stock options

· For more info, read our news and forum sections at www.roblox.com

If this sounds exciting, please email your resume to jobs@roblox.com
Only resumes sent to jobs@roblox.com will be read.

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