Roblox is a platform where people come together virtually to share experiences. Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to Roblox to learn, work, play, connect, communicate, and socialize in immersive digital experiences all built by a global community of creators.

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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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.Who We Are:&nbsp; Roblox is reimagining the way people come together to connect, create, and express themselves. To support our massive scale, we are powered by thousands of microservices. The Application Networking team connects and secures these services, building ingress gateways, managing the service mesh, and enabling seamless communication across Roblox’s hybrid on-prem and cloud infrastructure. We are executing on Cloud Bursting, a strategic initiative to enable Roblox’s core services to transparently burst from on-prem data centers to the cloud, allowing us to handle historical peak concurrent players and survive regional failures. You will join our Service Mesh team to build the networking fabric that makes this possible. You will: Design and build the service mesh infrastructure that enables communication across Roblox’s hybrid Kubernetes and Nomad environments, supporting billions of daily requests. Drive the integration of service mesh with Kubernetes, ensuring reliable sidecar injection, mTLS, traffic policies, and observability for production workloads. Build the networking foundation for Cloud Bursting, enabling Roblox’s top services to transparently burst from on-prem data centers to the cloud, with service discovery, traffic management, and locality-aware routing across environments. Partner with internal application teams to understand their connectivity pain points, ensuring the service mesh provides a frictionless 'paved road' for thousands of developers Collaborate with the Gateway and CNI teams to deliver a unified, multi-cluster service fabric that abstracts cluster and regional boundaries from application developers. Serve as a primary escalation point for complex service mesh issues, troubleshooting across Envoy sidecars, Istio control plane, and the underlying network stack. Act as a senior voice on the team, mentoring junior engineers and promoting best practices in testing, deployment, and reliability engineering. You Are:&nbsp; A professional with 3+ years of experience in distributed systems, with strong expertise in service mesh technologies (Istio, Envoy, Consul, or Linkerd). You understand the tradeoffs of sidecar-based architectures at scale. Deeply knowledgeable of service mesh concepts: traffic management, service discovery, mTLS, observability, and routing policies. Experienced running Kubernetes in production and familiar with the K8s networking model. Comfortable working with Envoy proxy internals, xDS APIs, and control plane architectures. Excellent at designing large-scale distributed systems that span multiple clusters, regions, and runtime environments. Fluent in Go, C/C++, or Rust. Experienced with on-call rotations and approach infrastructure with a “reliability-first” mindset. &nbsp;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$196,750&mdash;$243,290 USDRoles 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.

Senior Software Engineer, Service Mesh

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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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 Assessments team builds game-based assessments on the Roblox platform which are used to evaluate cognitive skills as part of the Roblox (the company) hiring process. Learning science experts and game developers collaborate to create engaging assessments that help us identify ideal candidates from a large pool of applicants. Our goal is to give all applicants an equal opportunity and provide an unbiased, efficient, and reliable screening mechanism. Working with this team will be a great fit for you if you want to work with a mission-based team and are intrigued by the intersection of psychology, gaming and technology. As a Software Engineer on the Assessment Tools Team, you will work in a multi-disciplinary team consisting of learning experts, game designers, UI designers, 3D artists and software engineers to architect and build game systems, backend services, features, and tools in service of assessing users' cognitive abilities. You will assist in building a library of always-on high-quality experiences that are high-stakes for Roblox applicants, ensuring that we provide them with a stable, engaging, and effective assessment. &nbsp; You Will Collaborate across many disciplines to build game-based cognitive assessments in Roblox Studio to run on the Roblox platform Build and maintain backend systems and APIs in service of these assessments. Mentor other engineers as well as non-technical team members Architect and build systems and user facing features in support of building assessments Become an expert on our technology stack and ensure we build new components and applications in a scalable and robust manner. Work closely with live-ops and the rest of the technical team to maintain a high-stakes, always-on product You Have 2+ years of experience working as a software engineer BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience Experience with multiple programming languages across front and back end development Bonus: Experience developing game systems and architecture You Are A Full Stack Software Engineer who can work across different languages and stacks Proficient in writing readable, extensible, testable, and well documented code A strong technical contributor that can translate requirements into scalable architecture and code A highly collaborative team member with the ability and willingness to work across disciplines to determine what’s best for the product. Mentorship a bonus.&nbsp; Curious with an interest in understanding the scientific side of cognitive assessments Bonus:&nbsp;Experienced with game engines like Roblox, Unity, Unreal Engine, etc Please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future F-1 or H-1B sponsorship at this time.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$153,120&mdash;$196,750 USDRoles 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.

Software Engineer, Assessments

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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.As a Principal Product Manager in Engineering Efficiency, you will define the vision and strategy for how software engineers work at Roblox. Your mission is to ensure that Roblox engineers spend more time building the metaverse and less time managing infrastructure complexity in your areas of responsibility.&nbsp; The Engineering Efficiency portfolio includes Source Control, Testing, Secure Software Supply Chain Management, Continuous Deployment, and Observability among many others. In this role, you will primarily own the developer experience for Continuous Deployment, Testing, and Observability, while remaining adaptable as organizational priorities evolve.&nbsp; AI has been transforming how we approach these systems. We’re already leveraging AI to test our software and to identify and diagnose production incidents. The successful candidate here will bring deep expertise not only in the software development lifecycle, but crucially also on the rapidly evolving landscape of AI tooling.&nbsp; This is a rare opportunity for an infrastructure product leader to drive meaningful impact at scale across a very large engineering organization.&nbsp; You Will: Define and drive the long-term vision and strategy for Testing, Continuous Deployment, and Observability platforms Own and improve the productivity and satisfaction of Roblox’s engineering community across these domains Leverage AI to create a new generation of tools that super power our engineers&nbsp; Elevate our internal platform to a world-class developer experience that engineers rely on and enjoy using every day Partner closely with Engineering, Design, Security, and Reliability leaders to align priorities and execution Unify and modernize tooling to support a wide range of workloads, ensuring broad adoption and measurable impact You Have:&nbsp; 10+ years of product management experience, including at least 5 years delivering infrastructure, developer, or operations tools Deep familiarity with modern solutions, platforms and infrastructure domains, including testing, observability, and CI/CD systems,&nbsp; along with the curiosity to identify and shape the next generation of developer tooling Expertise in the frontiers of AI developer tools (and their limitations)&nbsp; Strong technical foundation (Computer Science degree or equivalent experience preferred) Proven ability to define multi-year product strategy and rally large, cross-functional teams around a shared vision Comfort operating in ambiguity, making high-stakes decisions with incomplete information, and driving initiatives from concept through launch Exceptional written and verbal communication skills 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$280,540&mdash;$330,950 USDRoles 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.

Principal Product Manager, Engineering Efficiency

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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.Roblox’s database team develops the next-generation, multi-tenant database platform that elastically scales and underpins every online data workload at Roblox. As a Senior software engineer on the database team, you will shape the architecture, build and launch critical database capabilities that keep our services fast, reliable and efficient at global scale. You will report to the Technical Director for Storage. You will: Design and implement new engine features—indexing, storage formats, WAL and replication protocols, sharding, and query-planner enhancements—that push latency, throughput, and availability boundaries. Evolve the control plane&nbsp;to deliver elastic scaling, autonomous healing, and zero-downtime schema or tenant moves across global regions. Profile and optimize&nbsp;critical code paths using kernel-level tracing and advanced performance tooling; drive systematic tail-latency reductions. Establish engineering best practices&nbsp;by leading design reviews, performance benchmarks, failure drills, and post-incident retrospectives. Automate everything: develop frameworks for testing, CI/CD, rollout safety, observability, and autoscaling so that the platform operates hands-off at scale. Mentor and unblock engineers, fostering deep database craftsmanship and disseminating knowledge across Storage, Platform, and product teams. Engage with the open-source community—upstreaming patches, presenting learnings, and influencing the future of Postgres, RocksDB and related ecosystems. You have: 3+ years&nbsp;of experience in software engineering or a relevant field Deep experience with building and operating&nbsp;large-scale distributed databases&nbsp;or storage engines (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL/InnoDB, RocksDB, Spanner, Aurora, AlloyDB). Deep expertise in&nbsp;database internals—B-trees, MVCC, WAL, query optimization, buffer management—and strong skills in&nbsp;C/C++, GO or Rust. Hands-on experience with&nbsp;consensus algorithms&nbsp;(Raft, Paxos) and multi-region replication models that deliver strong consistency and high availability. Proven success shipping&nbsp;high-QPS, low-latency services&nbsp;on container orchestration stacks (Kubernetes or Nomad) with comprehensive observability. Ability to turn ambiguous product requirements into a clear technical roadmap and influence cross-functional stakeholders. Passion for&nbsp;automation, rigorous testing, and data-driven decision-making&nbsp;that raises the reliability and efficiency bar. Bonus:&nbsp;upstream contributions to PostgreSQL, RocksDB or other OSS databases; familiarity with disaggregated storage, HTAP workloads, or custom query languages. 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$196,750&mdash;$243,290 USDRoles 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.

Senior Software Engineer - Roblox DB

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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.As Senior Product Manager, Creator Safety Experience, you will own how creators experience safety on Roblox end-to-end. That means the products, tools, interfaces and systems that help creators understand our policies, respond to enforcement actions, remediate issues and get back to building. You will shape a product vision for a domain that sits at the intersection of platform safety, creator empowerment and policy and you will drive it to outcomes across a highly cross-functional organization.&nbsp; This role is for someone who is relentlessly creator-obsessed, operates with urgency, understands Safety from the perspective of creators, users and parents and has the judgment to navigate ambiguity without waiting for permission. You will work closely with product and engineering teams across Safety and Creator, as well as Policy, Legal, Developer Relations and Operations. You will often be the person connecting dots across organizations and driving alignment where it doesn't yet exist. You will: Own the end-to-end product experience for creator safety spanning transparency, enforcement communication, appeals, remediation and reform.&nbsp; Define and relentlessly refine a product vision for how creators understand and interact with Roblox's safety systems. Turn ambiguous, high-stakes problems into tangible, shippable solutions. You don't wait for perfect information.&nbsp; Build tools that give creators real agency to monitor their experiences, manage harmful behavior and understand exactly where they stand with the platform. Improve how moderation actions, policy enforcement decisions and restrictions are communicated to creators. You drive clarity and transparency as core safety product outcomes. Own creator-facing tooling for rights management and IP enforcement.&nbsp; Enable creators to remediate issues and return to productive building as quickly as possible.&nbsp; Advocate for creators internally. Identify systemic friction, prioritize relentlessly and drive alignment across Safety, Creator, Policy, Operations, Developer Relations, Legal etc. Ensure creator-facing safety experiences remain compliant with Roblox's Community Standards and applicable regional requirements. &nbsp; You have:&nbsp; 5+ years of product management experience, ideally in consumer, creator, developer platforms and/or Trust &amp; Safety. Deep customer obsession and empathy for their needs and pain. You have experience talking directly to your customers and building robust feedback loops. Ability to write compelling, logical narratives for various audiences. Your written and verbal communications make the ‘why’ obvious to all stakeholders. You have a strong dislike for fluff.&nbsp; Sound judgment to pair qualitative creator feedback with quantitative signals. You know what to measure, how to instrument and how to use data to disconfirm your own assumptions. Proven ability to drive alignment and outcomes across matrixed organizations. You have partnered with Engineering, Operations, Policy, Legal, Marketing and cross-functional stakeholders to ship complex, company-wide initiatives. High degree of comfort working with APIs, SDKs or other similar developer-facing tooling. You can build products that sophisticated developers actually want to use. A strong bias for action. You define the next smallest shippable thing, drive it to done and repeat. You do not mistake planning for progress. (Strong plus) Familiarity with Trust &amp; Safety domain, appeals systems, policy enforcement transparency or creator/developer-facing safety tooling. 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$229,010&mdash;$280,540 USDRoles 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.

Senior Product Manager, Creator Safety Experience

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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.WHY SAFETY? At Roblox, we strive to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and the Safety organization's mission is to become the leader in civil immersive online communities. We systematically and proactively detect, remove, and prevent problematic content and behavior, and we make Roblox accounts secure and free from compromise. We also keep the platform compliant for changing regulations and growth markets. We cover a broad area of the tech spectrum, including machine learning, experimentation, automation, highly scalable distributed backend systems, detection workflows, and AI-powered text filters. Aligned and partnering with product teams, we use this tool belt to discover new opportunities, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build safety products, and measure the impact on our community of users and developers. In doing so, we keep Roblox safe, civil, and inclusive, and we foster positive relationships between people around the world. WHY USER SAFETY?At Roblox, we believe that Safety and Civility are fundamental to fostering a vibrant, creative community. As a Senior Software Engineer on User Safety, you will be responsible for designing and building large scale systems for abuse reporting, a critical part of keeping Roblox safe.&nbsp; You will work on services with substantial scaling needs in the path of many critical user journeys, and you will feel a true sense of ownership and responsibility in thoughtfully and fairly protecting our users, while carefully balancing freedom and civility. You Will: Build large-scale services for intaking, enriching, routing, and decisioning abuse reports. Work closely with UX design, research, data science, and product managers to substantially improve the efficacy, scale, and trustworthiness of abuse reporting. Help evolve our moderation infrastructure to meet new safety and compliance requirements. Leverage ML to tackle difficult problems at scale. Work with a tightly-knit, high-performing, diverse, and energetic cross-functional product engineering team with a strong sense of camaraderie. You Have: 6+ Experience with scalable infrastructure and distributed systems 6+ Experience in Golang/C++/C#/Java/etc. Experience with modern microservice architecture. Capability and willingness in being predominantly a product engineer but occasionally serve a platform role with internal partners. Interest with Safety systems. A growth mindset. Preferred - Experience with the Trust &amp; Safety domain Preferred - Experience with AI/ML at scale You Are: An owner: Taking responsibility for not just your own work, but the work of your teammates, and ensuring that our users are safe on Roblox. A learner: Constantly seeking knowledge to grow yourself and your impact. Independent: Requiring little guidance and are generally able to resolve yourself. Compassionate: To the needs and motivations of our users and creators - not just those who are exposed to violative content, but also those who are responsible for the abuse. Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger 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$243,290&mdash;$295,250 USDRoles 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.

Senior Software Engineer, User Safety

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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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 Consumer App Foundation team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to improve Roblox client performance across our supported platforms. You’ll work primarily in cross-platform C++ Roblox game engine code, partnering with teams across the company to identify bottlenecks, ship measurable improvements, and prevent regressions over time. Our team owns the end-to-end performance of Roblox. We tackle the platform’s most difficult technical constraints—from speed and responsiveness to efficiency and stability —ensuring a high-performance experience across all of our devices and platforms: mobile, desktop, and console. &nbsp; You will: Conduct research, create and drive execution of roadmaps aimed to improve efficiency of Roblox on target platforms Design novel solutions to optimize performance and computing resources usage of Roblox client app. Profile and diagnose real-world performance on iOS or Android to identify bottlenecks, validate wins, and prevent regressions using platform tooling. Build and productionize repeatable benchmarks/experiments, CI/CD automation to catch regressions early, dashboards/alerts with actionable signals. Work with stakeholders across Engineering, Product, and Design to align on priorities, tradeoffs, and rollout plans; ensure performance improvements support the user experience. Deliver improvements and guardrails that scale across mobile, desktop, and console, with informed tradeoffs for mobile constraints. &nbsp; You have: 10+ years of experience: working in C++ with a track record of writing high-quality, performant code in large and complex codebases. Comfort with ambiguity: able to dive into unfamiliar codebases, unblock yourself, and take projects from greenfield/MVP → production-grade. Mobile performance expertise: hands-on experience improving performance on mobile platforms (iOS and/or Android), including on-device profiling to find and measure opportunities. Systems thinking: ability to build systems that work and keep on working reliably (measurement, monitoring, regression prevention).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$295,250&mdash;$345,040 USDRoles 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.

Principal Software Engineer, Consumer App Foundations

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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.As a Senior Frontend Engineer on the Core UI team, you'll push Roblox App performance to the next level - making it blazing fast and a joy to use. You'll own profiling, diagnosis, and end-to-end optimization of rendering, layout, and input pipelines to reduce frame time, eliminate jank, and build high-fidelity interfaces at scale. Our team sits at the intersection of performance engineering and product impact. You'll work on systems and surfaces used by every Roblox user and creator in every game session. If you care deeply about how software feels - not just how it works - this is the role for you. You Will: Own profiling, diagnosis, and end-to-end optimization of rendering, layout, and input pipelines across mobile, desktop, VR, and consoles - reducing frame time, eliminating jank, and delivering smooth, natural scrolling. Design and build robust, extensible systems powering Roblox's core surfaces (Home, Avatar, Search, and more) used by hundreds of millions of users and creators. Create scalable solutions for building high-fidelity, high-performance interfaces that set the standard for UI quality across Roblox. Partner with engineering, product, and design teams to integrate shared solutions and deliver cohesive, high-quality user experiences. Collaborate with senior engineers and tech leads to shape architectural direction and raise the bar on UI performance across the org. You Have: 5+ years of software development experience building large-scale, user-facing frontend applications with performance and high-quality user experience in mind. Deep expertise in modern frontend technologies. Strong command of frameworks such as React or similar, component-based architecture, and state management patterns for building maintainable user interfaces. Demonstrated ability to optimize frontend performance and diagnose issues. Knowledge of performance debugging, profiling, and benchmarking techniques on the client side. Strong understanding of software design principles and frontend architecture. Ability to design clean APIs and clear module boundaries. Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work cross-functionally and drive alignment on technical solutions. Nice to Have: Experience developing applications across multiple platforms (mobile, desktop, VR, consoles). Familiarity with C++ for understanding Roblox app and engine integration. Experience with Lua or React Native in a production environment. 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$196,750&mdash;$243,290 USDRoles 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.

Senior Software Engineer, App Performance - Core UI

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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.As a Backend Engineer on the Co-Experience team, you will work on high-visibility initiatives that define the future of age-appropriate communication. Using modern technologies, you will build and maintain a social ecosystem that ensures safe, civil, and meaningful interactions across diverse age groups. We are kind, highly collaborative, and draw on a mix of startup and large company backgrounds to iterate faster within Roblox. Our primary product is a platform-level Party System. As the heartbeat of social interaction on Roblox, this system enables users to coordinate, form groups, and stay connected as they navigate across servers and immersive experiences. While we have a strong foundation of chat, voice, gameplay mechanics, and creator APIs, we need your expertise to strengthen our backend infrastructure, build out new features, and accelerate our path toward product-market fit. As we scale, your work will directly impact our global community and support the company’s top-line growth. You Have: An undergraduate/graduate degree in computer science, engineering or a related field. 2+ years of experience in working on microservice architectures with a proven track record in addressing scalability and reliability challenges. 1+ years of experience building systems behind consumer-facing APIs that can handle large numbers of concurrent users. Strong understanding of server-side development and design principles, with proficiency in at least one compiled language such as C#, C++, Java, Golang, or other. Strong product intuition - you think in terms of user experience, tradeoffs, and measurable outcomes, as well as system design. A track record of leveraging AI-assisted development tools to maximize engineering velocity, allowing you to rapidly prototype, iterate on complex logic, and move from ideation to production-ready code with high efficiency. You Will: Collaborate within a multi-functional team that includes product, design, UXR, frontend and backend engineering. Maintain, improve and scale the Roblox party system to support millions of concurrent users. Participate in design and develop service infrastructure empowering Roblox creators to unlock new ways to co-experience for their users. Partner with other engineering teams (infrastructure, matchmaking, chat, voice, trust and safety) to integrate multiple systems in a reusable, performant and safe manner. Self-organize and take ownership of projects throughout their full lifecycle. Maintain high quality standards while iterating on features with live production traffic. Mentor interns.&nbsp; Please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time. You may redact age, date of birth, and dates of attendance/graduation from your resume if you prefer.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$153,120&mdash;$195,780 USDRoles 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.

Software Engineer, User Co-Experience

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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.As a Senior Software Engineer on the Profile team, you will build systems and applications across the stack and enable players, creators, influencers, and brands to create a compelling identity on Roblox. Your work will power the Roblox ecosystem, helping people recognize and connect with friends &amp; interests on Roblox, express themselves, and discover &amp; engage with the best of Roblox through their connections. You will own critical features used by millions of users daily, such as profiles, names, online presence, coplay tools, and social proof, as well as develop new zero-to-one features. You will drive company-level objectives for user engagement. If you are an experienced developer who loves to write code and ship user-facing features, you’ll be right at home with our product-focused team. You’ll be a fullstack engineer with a focus on frontend. You Will: Ship features and work across the stack with an end-to-end understanding of our features. This role will be frontend leaning.&nbsp; Collaborate with other engineering, product, and design teams to define and build platform features to enable users to express their identities&nbsp; Drive individual projects from end to end, ensuring they are well-planned, executed efficiently, run experiments, and deliver meaningful impact. You Have: 5+ years of experience building full-stack systems, including backend, APIs, and frontend applications. Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience. Familiar with A/B testing and experience on a Product team (Bonus) You Are: Proactive: You operate with a sense of urgency, initiating conversations and workflow that pushes team projects and people forward Scrappy: You are willing to dive into any tech stack to solve problems, and can easily adapt to any situation when the need arises and come up with the right solution. A product owner: You champion for changes that align with the needs of our users 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$243,290&mdash;$295,250 USDRoles 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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