5 hours ago
San Mateo, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$177k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build scalable backend services and APIs connecting design tools to AI models and Roblox Studio.
- Develop agentic workflows and orchestration layers, including Model Context Protocol servers, for generating UI components, layouts, and prototypes.
- Build automated deployment pipelines and infrastructure that provide zero-configuration development environments for designers.
- Design and maintain data architecture connecting design systems with AI data sources and synchronizing design tokens and components across platforms.
- Create internal tools, Figma and Cursor plugins, and web applications for design linting, code generation, and automated compliance.
- Act as the technical bridge between core engineering, AI research, and product design while ensuring tools are secure, performant, and structurally sound.
Requirements
- 3+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on full-stack or backend development, systems architecture, and API design.
- Experience building scalable internal services rather than only frontend interfaces.
- Familiarity with LLM orchestration, agentic workflows, and AI protocols such as MCP.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, feature-flag management, GitHub Enterprise, and automated deployment pipelines.
- Strong understanding of Figma plugin architecture and programmatic parsing and manipulation of design data at scale.
- Preferred: experience with Roblox development, Lua, React-Lua, or game-engine UI architecture.
- Preferred: experience with abstract syntax trees, compiler logic, or automated code generation.
Benefits
- 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.
- For roles based at the San Mateo headquarters, the stated annual base salary range is $176,940-$214,710 USD.
Tech Stack
Lua
Categories
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.