Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Acceleration Foundations

Roblox; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 196,750 - 243,290; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Benefits package

Job summary

Roblox is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Engineering Acceleration Foundations team in San Mateo, CA. You will work to transform development into a globally mature, AI-native platform while supporting a culture of continuous improvement.

The role requires 3-5 years of experience, a BS in Computer Science, and a passion for engineering productivity. You'll collaborate across teams to redefine development tools and enhance productivity for our engineers.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in software development.
• Participated in end-to-end development of tools used by hundreds of developers.
• Knowledge of CI tools and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Support and scale Roblox's development cycle for growth.
• Create software improving coworker productivity.
• Collaborate to enhance user experience of CI tools.

Skills

Customer-focused mindset

Great communication skills

Collaboration skills

Knowledge of source control

Fluency in Python, Go, or C#

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub

Docker

Kubernetes

HashiCorp Stack

Job description

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.

At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.

A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

The Engineering Acceleration Foundations team delivers a world-class development experience to our 2000+ Roblox teammates who write, build, and ship the most incredible virtual experience platform in the world. As a Senior Software Engineer within our Engineering Acceleration team, you will be deep in the middle of transforming development at Roblox from its solid roots to a fully scaled, globally mature, AI-native platform for empowering engineers. If you are passionate about engineering productivity and you’ve ever wanted to have company-wide impact where you can design, code, and make decisions that fundamentally change how things are done - this is your opportunity!

You Will:

• Support, scale, secure and redefine Roblox’s development cycle including source control, code search, artifact creation and distribution, and local and remote development infrastructure for the next 10 years of growth.
• Help create software that improves the lives of your coworkers with new local development tools, internal web apps and microservices, reusable CI workflows, productivity metrics toolchains, and integrations across many 1st and 3rd party tools.
• Collaborate on efforts improving the productivity and user experience of our Source, CI tools and Build, spanning teams across Roblox engineering and impacting every engineer at the company.

You Have:

• 3-5 years of experience
• A BS in Computer Science or a related field with equivalent practical experience.
• A customer-focused mindset with great communication and collaboration skills.
• Participated in end-to-end development, launch, and support of a tool or system used by hundreds of other developers at scale.
• Knowledge of source control, artifact management, CI tools, and infrastructure. GitHub, GitHub Actions, and Artifactory experience are a plus.
• Experience working with common cloud and orchestration technologies, preferably AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and HashiCorp Stack (Terraform, Vault).
• Fluency in at least one common programming language (Python, Go, C#).

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.

Annual Salary Range

$196,750 — $243,290 USD

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.