Senior Software Engineer, Creator Collaboration (AI)

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

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

Company

Roblox develops a platform for creating and experiencing 3D immersive digital worlds, used by a global community of developers and creators.

What you will do

• Design, build, test, and deploy services across the Roblox ecosystem.
• Develop Team Create and other real-time collaboration capabilities for creators.
• Own the Creation Platform, including APIs and services used by agentic products and external agents through MCP.
• Architect software supporting collaboration between developers, artists, designers, and AI agents at scale.
• Set a high technical bar for code quality, architecture, and long-term planning while mentoring engineers.
• Understand the needs of creators ranging from beginning artists to professional scripters and designers.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience shipping high-complexity software.
• Experience architecting, designing, and leading implementation of a broad range of software products.
• Experience supporting mission-critical applications at scale.
• Proficiency in C#, C++, Java, Python, or a similar programming language.
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases at scale and modern large-scale infrastructure.
• Ability to design platforms and APIs used by other products and AI agents, make architectural trade-offs, and align engineering teams.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with agentic systems, harnesses, and models.
• Familiarity with MCP or similar agent tooling.
• Full-stack knowledge and experience solving complex software problems.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on tools and infrastructure for collaborative creation and AI-assisted development.
• Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and company benefits.
• Roblox provides equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations during the recruiting process.
• For this US-based role, future H-1B sponsorship may not be supported, and certain US visa categories may not be eligible.