Senior Software Engineer - Engineering Acceleration

Location: San Mateo, California, United States. Hybrid schedule with required office attendance at headquarters on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday; Monday and Friday presence is optional.

Base salary: $196,750–$243,290 USD annually.

Company

Roblox builds a platform and tools for creating and experiencing 3D immersive digital experiences.

What you will do

• Partner with internal engineering teams to gather requirements and develop a service-management platform for critical user journeys.
• Build and improve front-end and back-end applications that manage thousands of daily change rollouts.
• Design long-term cross-functional architectures with stakeholders and engineering teams.
• Develop, mentor, and share engineering best practices that improve automation and productivity.
• Help shape the team's vision and collaborate with a global engineering organization.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience, with at least 5 years of relevant experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience and a track record of building, shipping, monitoring, and supporting tools used at large engineering scale.
• Experience with both backend and frontend development, using two or more programming languages or technologies.
• Extensive experience with infrastructure, distributed systems, cloud technologies, Docker, containers, and CD platforms.
• Proficiency with build, test, and CI/CD technologies.
• For US-based roles, employment may be restricted for certain US visa categories, and future H-1B sponsorship may not be supported.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with HashiCorp technologies and Kubernetes.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a global engineering team developing large-scale technology.
• Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and company benefits.
• Collaborative environment focused on engineering experience, productivity, and customer-oriented solutions.
• Roblox provides equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations during the recruiting process.