Roblox

We’re building the world’s largest social platform for play. 

At Roblox, we’re committed to pushing the boundaries of user-generated play. We aspire to build a global brand that empowers kids of all ages to imagine, create, and play together in immersive 3D worlds across all modern smartphones, tablets, desktops, Xbox One, Oculus Rift, and other popular VR platforms. We’re always looking for smart, talented, and creative people to join our team of over 200 engineers, artists, and visionaries.

The Product:

The Roblox Imagination Platform is a vibrant ecosystem of creators, builders, game players, and adventurers imagining with their friends. Our Roblox Studio IDE allows powerful and intuitive creation, published with a single click to the cloud, and instantly playable with your friends across PC, Mac, iOS, Android, Xbox One, Oculus Rift, and other popular VR platforms. Integrated matchmaking, persistence, and billing support provide developers rich functionality for building great games and experiences. The Roblox.com website ties this ecosystem together with search and discovery, social networking, and a massive catalog of user-made content.

The Technology:

• We are a cloud services provider for our developers, seamlessly scaling behind creations as they gain usage and popularity.

• Our technology provides solutions across multiple verticals, social networking, search, ecommerce, analytics, data persistence, security, ad delivery, and real-time bidding.
• The game engine has a powerful and efficient C++ core, plugging into a cutting-edge custom rendering engine, a replication framework, and a custom physics engine capable of simulating articulated bodies as well as collisions.
• Platform specific shells encapsulates the game engine on PC, Mac, iOS, Android, Amazon Devices, Xbox One, and Oculus Rift.
• On the platform layer, we handle 500,000 requests per second.