Senior Software Engineer, Video Rendering (Android)

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

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

Company

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

What you will do

• Design, develop, optimize, and debug video capture, encoding, playback, and rendering for Android.
• Use C++ and Android NDK APIs including Vulkan and AMediaCodec in a performance-oriented environment.
• Architect and implement video capabilities for 3D immersive experiences.
• Work across mobile, desktop, console, and backend microservices platforms.
• Collaborate with teams across Roblox to develop new applications for video.
• Use AI and LLMs while developing advanced video technology for gaming.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and debugging complex C++ applications on Android.
• Expertise working across a wide range of Android devices.
• Proficiency with Vulkan or OpenGL on Android in performance-oriented environments.
• Knowledge of video compression, delivery, decoding, adaptive playback, and rendering.
• Understanding of AVC, HEVC, AV1, YUV, and HLS.
• For US-based roles, certain US visa-based work authorizations may not be eligible, and future H-1B sponsorship may not be available.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with equity compensation and benefits.
• Work on large-scale shared digital experiences used by tens of millions of people.
• Opportunity to solve technical challenges across multiple platforms and video systems.
• Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodations during the recruiting process.