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Home›Jobs›Roblox›Senior Software Engineer - Video Rendering
Roblox

About Roblox

Empowering creators in a vibrant gaming universe

🏢 Tech, Gaming👥 1001+ employees📅 Founded 2006📍 South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA💰 $922.8m⭐ 3.8
B2CGamingEntertainmentCommunity

Key Highlights

  • Over 200 million monthly active users globally
  • More than $500 million paid to developers in 2022
  • Headquartered in South San Mateo, CA
  • $922.8 million raised in Series G funding

Roblox is an online gaming and entertainment platform headquartered in South San Mateo, CA, that connects over 200 million monthly active users. The platform empowers its community to create and monetize their own games, with over $500 million paid out to developers in 2022 alone. As a leader in the...

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Roblox

Senior Software Engineer - Video Rendering

Roblox • San Mateo, CA, United States

Posted 2w ago🏛️ On-SiteSeniorSoftware engineering📍 San mateo
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Skills & Technologies

AndroidNdkVulkanAmediacodec

Job Description

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.

The Video Team is responsible for adaptive video playback and rendering, screen recording, camera capture, live video, video ads, video transcoding, and moderation. We develop on mobile, desktops, consoles, web, and our backend microservices platform. This is a hands-on role focused on Android with the opportunity to work across all the areas. This role is not a video codec research or implementation position; we only use industry-standard codecs.

You Will:

  • Design, develop, optimize, and debug video capture, encoding, playback, and rendering focused on the Android platform using NDK APIs like Vulkan and AMediaCodec.
  • Innovate, architect, and implement our vision for video in a 3D immersive environment.
  • Have the opportunity to work across our platforms (desktop, mobile, and consoles).
  • Have the opportunity to work on our backend microservices 
  • Collaborate with different teams all across Roblox to develop new uses of video.
  • Be guided to create state of the art video tech for gaming industry

You Are:

  • An experienced engineer with 5+ years of designing, developing, and debugging complex C++ applications running on Android.
  • An expert with the wide variety of Android devices from junk to gold.
  • Proficient with using Vulkan or OpenGL on Android in a performance oriented environment
  • Knowledgeable within the video domain. You know the difference between AVC, HEVC, and AV1. You understand how video is compressed, delivered, and decoded. You don't have to look up the meaning of YUV or HLS. You love to pick up new technologies as the landscape evolves.

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.

Annual Salary Range
$195,780—$242,100 USD

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

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