Principal Software Engineer, Creator Game Operations (Gamedev)

Location: San Mateo, California, United States. Office-based roles require onsite attendance Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday.

Salary: $295,250–$345,040 USD starting base pay.

Company

Roblox builds a platform and tools for creating, publishing, and experiencing 3D social content.

What you will do

• Lead technical decision-making and guide engineering development for creator-focused services and systems.
• Build and own mission-critical backend services supporting the Creator Hub, Developer Forum, and Creator Dashboard.
• Develop ML-driven services and large-scale data pipelines for player insights and creator monetization.
• Build communication tools for managing player communities, virtual events, and feedback.
• Develop remote configuration and experimentation platforms for large-scale games.
• Collaborate with cross-functional and cross-team leaders while owning projects through their full lifecycle.

Requirements

• 8+ years of industry software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of experience with C#, Java, Go, or another object-oriented programming language.
• Deep experience with distributed systems, including stream processing, data pipelines, queues, RPC, and retry strategies.
• Experience solving challenging problems in complex networked codebases and working with native code.
• Ability to work across Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, and other platforms.
• Experience designing systems with monitoring, logging, operations, and automated testing.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast iteration and action-oriented engineering culture balanced with long-term thinking.
• Full-time employment with equity compensation eligibility and employee benefits.
• Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodations during the recruiting process.
• Future H-1B sponsorship may not be supported, and certain US visa work authorizations may not be eligible for employment.