3 months ago
San Mateo, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$295k - $345k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own complex, business-critical programs spanning multiple teams and often lasting several years.
- Define and drive multi-year technical vision for Roblox content creation and sharing systems.
- Lead high-severity incident response and develop systemic solutions that improve reliability and development velocity.
- Improve shared infrastructure and foundational systems by introducing frameworks that increase organizational development speed.
- Align teams on technical direction through design documents, phased roadmaps, and planning models.
- Mentor senior engineers and lead engineering excellence, quality, hiring, closing, and retention initiatives.
- Represent Roblox and contribute to its technical standing in the external engineering community.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building large-scale backend systems in C++, C#, Java, or similar languages.
- Deep experience designing distributed systems, scalable APIs, and high-throughput backend services.
- Experience working on consumer-facing platforms serving millions of users.
- Demonstrated success leading large, multi-team initiatives with long-term technical vision and group-level impact.
- Experience serving as an escalation point for severe production or infrastructure incidents and defining technical investment strategies.
- Ability to communicate effectively across audiences and model inclusive, respectful collaboration.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Equity compensation and employee benefits are available to full-time employees.
- Office-based roles are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday.
- The stated starting annual base salary range is $295,250-$345,040 USD for roles based at the San Mateo, CA headquarters.
About Roblox
Roblox builds a platform for user‑generated 3D experiences, offering Roblox Studio for creators and a social marketplace where players explore and interact across devices. Its business model centers on virtual currency (Robux) and subscriptions, platform fees paid to creators, and an expanding advertising offering. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Roblox Corporation is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker RBLX.