Senior Software Engineer - Consoles

Location: San Mateo, California, United States; onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional office presence Monday and Friday.

Salary: $196,750–$243,290 USD annual base pay.

Company

Roblox builds a platform and tools for creating and experiencing 3D immersive digital content across devices.

What you will do

• Shape and improve the Roblox experience on PlayStation and Xbox for millions of players.
• Translate ambiguous product ideas into scoped engineering plans with product, design, and data science partners.
• Lead complex client work from planning through delivery.
• Raise code quality through rigorous reviews, mentorship, and engineering standards.
• Drive platform-level investments and coordinate with Xbox and PlayStation counterparts on feature parity and platform-specific quality.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and shipping client software.
• Strong C++ proficiency.
• Hands-on experience delivering software for console, desktop, or mobile platforms; PlayStation or Xbox shipping experience is highly valued.
• Ability to profile, trace, debug, and diagnose issues across the client stack, including console hardware-specific problems.
• Experience using metrics, logging, and experimentation to evaluate features and player impact.
• For the San Mateo office role, candidates must be able to work onsite on the required office days and have United States work authorization.

Nice to have

• Experience with Lua or React.
• Direct experience shipping software on PlayStation or Xbox.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and company benefits.
• Work includes collaboration across product, design, data science, and platform functions.
• The role focuses on building fast, reliable, and polished experiences for millions of players.
• Roblox provides reasonable accommodations during the recruiting process for qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs.