Principal Backend Engineer — Content Discovery & Sharing

The Briefed; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 295,000 - 345,000; Full time

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Job summary

Roblox is seeking a Principal Software Engineer on the Sharing team in San Mateo. You will guide the platform-wide architecture for content creation, capture, and social sharing across consumer surfaces, shaping multi-year backend direction and standards to accelerate developer velocity.

You will mentor engineers, lead code-quality initiatives, and own resiliency in distributed systems, APIs, and real-time processing. Join a high-impact team driving massive user engagement.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience building and operating large-scale distributed backend systems.
• Deep software engineering foundation in high-performance languages such as C++, C#, or Java.
• Extensive track record designing fault-tolerant distributed systems, high-throughput microservices, and consumer-facing RESTful/gRPC APIs.
• Direct experience architecting software for massive consumer-facing platforms serving millions of active users.
• Multi-team leadership across quarters or years with organizational impact.
• Experience acting as primary escalation point for complex infrastructure incidents and guiding long-term investment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-team engineering programs and align teams behind a unified technical direction.
• Develop and execute long-term technical architecture for content creation, capture, and social sharing.
• Modernize shared infrastructure with scalable APIs and reusable backend frameworks.
• Serve as escalation point for high-severity production incidents and drive systemic reliability improvements.

Skills

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

System design

RESTful APIs

gRPC APIs

Multi-team leadership

Incident management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Roblox is seeking a Principal Software Engineer on the Sharing team in San Mateo. You will guide the platform-wide architecture for content creation, capture, and social sharing across consumer surfaces, shaping multi-year backend direction and standards to accelerate developer velocity.

You will mentor engineers, lead code-quality initiatives, and own resiliency in distributed systems, APIs, and real-time processing. Join a high-impact team driving massive user engagement.