Senior Software Engineer, Developer Tools (AI)

Location: United States; roles based at the San Mateo, California headquarters are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday.

Salary: $243,290–$295,250 USD annual base pay, plus potential equity and benefits.

Company

Roblox builds a 3D immersive digital platform and tools that enable developers and creators to build interactive experiences across devices.

What you will do

• Design, build, and scale test automation frameworks, runners, orchestration services, device-farm integrations, and supporting infrastructure.
• Develop AI-native tools for test authoring, selection, execution, maintenance, failure analysis, and automated debugging.
• Build systems connecting test planning, execution, observability, and failure triage across mobile, desktop, console, and VR platforms.
• Improve test stability, debugging, reliability, and operational visibility across a large testing ecosystem.
• Integrate automated quality checks and actionable test feedback into development and CI/CD workflows.
• Own technical initiatives from problem definition and design through deployment, adoption, measurement, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Production software engineering experience, including designing, building, testing, and operating software in large codebases.
• Strong programming skills in C++, Python, Go, or another modern programming language.
• Experience with test automation frameworks, developer tools, distributed systems, CI/CD infrastructure, or engineering platforms.
• Experience designing scalable, reliable, observable services or frameworks.
• Experience supporting systems across multiple platforms such as Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, or iOS.
• Ability to own projects, communicate technical decisions, and collaborate across application, platform, QA, infrastructure, and developer productivity teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with Appium, Selenium, or comparable cross-platform test automation frameworks.
• Experience with CI/CD, release engineering, developer productivity, or internal platform systems.
• Experience applying LLMs, agents, or other AI techniques to developer tools and testing.
• Experience integrating automated quality checks into large-scale software development workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on systems used to improve software quality and release confidence across a large developer platform.
• Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and benefits.
• Equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations are provided during the recruiting process.
• For US-based roles, future H-1B sponsorship may not be supported, and certain US visa categories may not be eligible.