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# Principal Software Engineer - Asset Loading

- **Company:** Roblox
- **Location:** San Mateo, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $293,800.0 - $343,340.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C++ (Programming Language), Distributed Systems, Game Engine, Open Source Technology, WebRTC, Multithreading, Low Latency, Roblox
- **Published:** July 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://careers.roblox.com/jobs/7561827?gh_jid=7561827

## About the Role

* Lead engineers with 8+ years of industry experience
 * Understand the game networking with a passion for working with open source
 * Be experienced with asset loading, rendering, and networking coming from a Game Engine/Studio. (Desirable)
 * Be an amazing systems-level C++ programmer and be fascinated by the actual work the CPU does when you use smart pointers, templates, virtual functions, and blocks of memory, both structured and raw
 * Have a keen to each millisecond of the network exchanges: You know where the time goes and how to reduce the waste
 * Understand what happens on the operating system level when certain code is completed

You Have:

 * Worked on the guts of a multi-player game engine, 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 the devices Roblox supports - from desktop clients to mobile phone clients to console clients

## Description

The Engine Networking Team pulls the players together by ensuring the communication of the game state to all. As a Principal Engineer on this team you will help the players experience the game as a nearly synchronous world. The networking and asset loading team plays a key role in 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.


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