16 hours ago
San Mateo, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$295k - $345k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical decision-making and guide the development team.
- Lead engineering and development for large-scale backend services and systems.
- Create and own mission-critical services supporting Roblox creators and experiences.
- Build ML-driven services and large-scale data pipelines for player insights and creator monetization.
- Develop communication tools for creator communities, virtual events, and player feedback.
- Build remote configuration and experimentation platforms to support game growth.
- Collaborate with cross-functional and cross-team leaders.
- Own projects throughout their full lifecycle, including monitoring, logging, operations, and automated testing.
Requirements
- 8+ years of industry experience as a software engineer.
- Deep familiarity with distributed-systems concepts including stream processing, data pipelines, queues, RPC, and retry strategies.
- 3+ years of experience with C#, Java, Go, or another object-oriented programming language.
- Experience solving complex problems in challenging, networked codebases.
- Ability to work across Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, and other platforms.
- Ability to design systems with monitoring, logging, operational practices, and automated testing.
- Strong collaboration and teamwork skills.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $295,250–$345,040 USD for roles based at the San Mateo, California headquarters.
- Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and benefits.
- Office-based roles are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday unless otherwise noted.
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.