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Senior Web Architect/Lead Engineer - Online Game Startup
at ROBLOX in Redwood City, CA
Senior Web Architect / Lead Engineer
ROBLOX is looking for a senior engineer to lead the design and development of our virtual world’s web platform.
You will:
• Design and deliver web features that are distributed, latency tolerant, and highly available
• Oversee all web application designs, test plans, and rollout strategies
• Evaluate proprietary, open source, and home grown solutions
• Work through the entire hardware/software stack
Projects may include:
• 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 key-value data stores to complement existing relational databases
• Expand an existing distributed storage layer
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:
• Experienced in mixed computing strategies that include traditional and cloud storage
• Hands-on experience at a marquee social networking site
• Passionate about verifying decisions with metrics
About us:
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.
Interested in an opportunity to be part of something unique? Email your resume to jobs@roblox.com
ROBLOX is looking for a senior engineer to lead the design and development of our virtual world’s web platform.
You will:
• Design and deliver web features that are distributed, latency tolerant, and highly available
• Oversee all web application designs, test plans, and rollout strategies
• Evaluate proprietary, open source, and home grown solutions
• Work through the entire hardware/software stack
Projects may include:
• 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 key-value data stores to complement existing relational databases
• Expand an existing distributed storage layer
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:
• Experienced in mixed computing strategies that include traditional and cloud storage
• Hands-on experience at a marquee social networking site
• Passionate about verifying decisions with metrics
About us:
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.
Interested in an opportunity to be part of something unique? Email your resume to jobs@roblox.com
Published at May 17th, 2010
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