Senior Software Engineer: Music and Licenses
at Roblox
San Mateo, United States
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.
At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
As the Senior Software Engineer for the Music and Licensing pod within the Creator Content Group you will help IP holders and community developers to build creative and innovative ways for users to create a diversity of content. You will help build tools and services for IPHs and Creators to bring in their new Licenses, and for Creators to discover them to build interesting and meaningful net-new content. You will also help build a best in class audio library, music tooling and APIs.
You and your team will be in charge of the design, end-to-end architecture, implementation and delivery of a platform for the community.
You Will:
- Report to the Senior Engineering Manager of Creator Content Music.
- Enable rich presentation of the breadth of music content including advanced automatic ML-based tagging and feature discovery.
- Work with your product and policy partners to determine the roadmap and lead project execution.
- Work with other engineering teams and with the broader Content team to build technical systems.
You Have:
- Experience: 6+ Years of experience in building critically acclaimed consumer applications that impact millions of users' lives.
- Technical ability: Expertise in building scalable backend distributed systems. You have worked with containerized backend microservices.
- Product focused: You have experience working with cross-functional teams to build backends to support consumer-facing products. Experience involving user-generated content.
You Are:
- An outstanding software engineer with 6+ years shipping full-stack software.
- Experienced with some of the technologies in our stack like C#, TypeScript, React, and CSS.
- Motivated to complete projects, take ownership of setting and clarifying product requirements, and build features from end-to-end.
- You relish the challenge of building a unified, powerful technical platform that can be leveraged for evolving requirements without needing major refactors.
For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.
Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
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