Senior Backend Engineer, Ledger Platform

Roblox; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 197,000 - 243,000; Full time

Job summary

Roblox is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Ledger team and build the system of record for a global economy. You will design, implement, and operate ledger services, ensuring correctness and scalability across value movements on Roblox.

Requirements include 4+ years of backend software engineering, strong distributed-systems skills, and a Bachelor's degree in a related field. Prior ledger or financial-infrastructure experience is highly desirable.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Proficient in designing, building and maintaining robust, scalable systems (microservices, APIs).
• Strong debugging skills in distributed systems.
• Experience in managing projects across multiple workstreams.
• Collaborative, able to mentor junior engineers.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar.
• Experience in financial infrastructure or ledger systems is highly desirable.
• Experience with large-scale data/analytical systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Finance, product, and other economy engineering teams to ensure every movement of value is correct at the source.
• Architect, design, implement, and operate the ledger services that record every movement of value on Roblox.
• Proactively identify and address correctness, performance, auditability, and operational risks in systems where a single bad entry is a financial incident.
• Design idempotent, exactly-once write paths, plus the reconciliation that proves the books balance and the precision guarantees other teams build on.
• Own both sides of the ledger: the write path that records value, and the read path that serves balances, history, and analytics from the same source of truth.
• Uphold high standards for code quality, test coverage, and maintainability, fostering the culture of engineering excellence.

Skills

Backend software engineering

Distributed systems debugging

Project management

Cross-team collaboration

Mentoring junior engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Roblox is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Ledger team and build the system of record for a global economy. You will design, implement, and operate ledger services, ensuring correctness and scalability across value movements on Roblox.

Requirements include 4+ years of backend software engineering, strong distributed-systems skills, and a Bachelor's degree in a related field. Prior ledger or financial-infrastructure experience is highly desirable.