Senior Platform Engineer - Orchestration & Test Automation

Roblox; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 243,000 - 295,000; Full time

Job summary

Roblox is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Orchestration pod in Engine Productivity. You will design and run a scalable test platform that executes end-to-end and integration tests on real hardware across Roblox data centers and labs.

You will build schedulers, control-plane components, and APIs to coordinate tests across fleets, enabling safe, rapid ship cycles for engine, clients, Studio, and more.

Qualifications

• Experience building distributed systems or backend services such as schedulers and orchestration.
• Proficiency in Go and/or Python; Luau for test tooling.
• Solid grasp of distributed systems fundamentals: fairness, efficiency, failure handling, reliability.
• Experience with end-to-end or integration testing on real applications.

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed services for the test platform across fleets of machines and devices.
• Run the real client on hardware at scale; coordinate test state and gameplay scenarios.
• Build capacity-aware scheduling, isolation, and smart retry/backoff for reliability.
• Develop health monitoring and automated recovery for hardware and cloud fleet.
• Move artifacts, manage client state, and support test owners validating runs.
• Evolve automation harnesses into a cohesive Universal Test Platform.
• Take projects from design through production and support multiple engineering teams.

Tools

Luau

Job description

Roblox is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Orchestration pod in Engine Productivity. You will design and run a scalable test platform that executes end-to-end and integration tests on real hardware across Roblox data centers and labs.

You will build schedulers, control-plane components, and APIs to coordinate tests across fleets, enabling safe, rapid ship cycles for engine, clients, Studio, and more.