Core Engine Developer - Systems; C++

Position: Core Engine Developer - Systems (C++)
The Engine Networking Team pulls the players together by ensuring the communication of the game state to all. As a Principal 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