Base Salary
$399k - $458k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the technical roadmap for the Roblox Studio application and toolchain, emphasizing performance, responsiveness, and extensibility.
- Design and build core systems for the high-performance desktop IDE, including startup, editing, the edit-test loop, debugging tooling, and extensible frameworks.
- Set architectural and engineering standards across Studio while contributing as a hands-on individual contributor.
- Author and review design documents and technical specifications for foundational Studio features.
- Profile the application, identify bottlenecks, and improve latency, memory usage, and throughput.
- Partner with engineering, product, and design teams to deliver fast, reliable, and intuitive creator tooling.
- Share reusable patterns and best practices across Studio and raise the overall engineering bar.
Requirements
- A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field is required; an MS or PhD is a strong plus.
- 12+ years of engineering experience developing high-performance, large-scale C++ systems, including ownership of large, long-lived platforms.
- Proven experience with memory management, concurrency, data structures, or real-time systems.
- Strong background in creator tooling, developer tools, or IDE-like platforms.
- Experience building and optimizing high-performance client applications and keeping large desktop applications responsive under real workloads.
- Strong systems and software engineering skills, including complex architecture design and production-grade coding.
- Ability to set technical direction and raise quality across multiple teams through technical expertise, mentorship, and communication with engineers and executives.
- Experience with graphics and real-time rendering is a nice-to-have.
- Experience building debugging and profiling tooling for developers is a nice-to-have.
- Product-minded, user-centric, versatile, and comfortable operating at deep technical levels while communicating direction clearly.
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.
- The role is based at the Roblox headquarters in San Mateo, California.
About Roblox
Roblox's vision is to reimagine the way people come together. Our mission is to connect a billion people with optimism and civility. What is Roblox? Roblox is a platform where people come together virtually to share experiences. Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to Roblox to learn, work, play, connect, communicate, and socialize in immersive digital experiences all built by a global community of creators. Powered by Creators Roblox is powered by a global community of millions of developers and creators who produce their own immersive multiplayer experiences each month using Roblox Studio, our intuitive desktop design tool. Any experience imaginable can be created on Roblox. How Popular? Roblox is ranked as one of the top entertainment platforms for audiences under the age of 18 based on average monthly visits and time spent (Comscore). Our popularity is driven purely by the community with millions of people signing up through word of mouth every month.