Principal Backend Engineer — Scale & Platform Leadership

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

Job summary

Roblox is seeking a Principal Software Engineer on the Sharing team in San Mateo, CA to lead multi-team initiatives with a long-term technical vision and group-wide impact. You will define platform strategy, mentor senior engineers, and set engineering standards to advance scalable content sharing.

Based in San Mateo, CA, this role offers a competitive base salary, equity, and benefits. You will collaborate across teams to build reliable infrastructure, scalable APIs, and high-throughput

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building large-scale backend systems.
• Deep experience designing distributed systems, scalable APIs, and high-throughput backend services.
• Experience on consumer-facing platforms at scale with millions of users.
• Proven track record leading large, multi-team initiatives with long-term technical vision.
• Experience acting as an escalation point for production or infrastructure incidents and defining technical investment strategies.
• Excellent communication across audiences to enable sound decisions and collaboration.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the outcome of complex, multi-team programs spanning several teams and years.
• Develop and drive a multi-year technical vision for content creation and sharing.
• Lead high-severity incident response and drive durable systemic solutions.
• Regularly improve shared infrastructure and foundational systems.
• Align multiple teams on technical direction, with detailed design docs and roadmaps.
• Mentor and cultivate engineering talent across the group.

Skills

Backend development

System design

Distributed systems

Leadership

Operational excellence

Communication

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, CA to lead multi-team initiatives with a long-term technical vision and group-wide impact. You will define platform strategy, mentor senior engineers, and set engineering standards to advance scalable content sharing.

Based in San Mateo, CA, this role offers a competitive base salary, equity, and benefits. You will collaborate across teams to build reliable infrastructure, scalable APIs, and high-throughput