7 hours ago
San Mateo, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$188k - $224k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive quality strategy, release criteria, SLOs, quality metrics, and testability standards.
- Identify systemic quality gaps and lead quality initiatives from proposal through adoption across teams.
- Evaluate, pilot, integrate, and scale AI-assisted testing, failure triage, reviews, and release-risk analysis workflows.
- Build and maintain scalable API, service, integration, and end-to-end test automation integrated into CI/CD.
- Develop test strategies for distributed systems, including concurrency, eventual consistency, backward compatibility, and failure modes.
- Validate mobile, desktop, console, and web behavior and conduct performance, load, chaos, and resilience testing.
- Partner with Trust & Safety, Privacy, and Policy teams to make safety and privacy requirements testable and verified.
- Analyze incidents, escaped defects, and telemetry to identify root causes and drive preventive improvements.
- Mentor engineers and quality engineers and resolve technical and cross-functional disagreements independently.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of experience in quality engineering, SDET, or software engineering with a strong testing focus.
- Demonstrated experience changing team or organizational processes and leading adoption of tools, practices, or workflows across multiple teams.
- Deep hands-on experience with AI-assisted development and testing tools, including workflows, automations, or agentic systems used by others.
- Strong programming skills in at least one relevant language, such as Python, Go, Java, C#, Lua, or TypeScript.
- Experience building automation frameworks and CI/CD test pipelines for backend services, APIs, and distributed systems at scale.
- Ability to make independent risk-based decisions, resolve disagreements, and align senior engineering and product stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and comfort using observability tools to debug and validate production behavior.
- Preferred experience with social, messaging, or real-time communication products; safety, privacy, and compliance; mobile and cross-platform automation; performance, chaos, or resilience testing; experimentation; feature flags; and mentoring.
Benefits
- Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and benefits.
- San Mateo-based office roles are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday.
- The listed annual base salary range for San Mateo headquarters roles is $187,780–$223,660 USD, subject to job-related factors and change.
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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.