Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Acceleration Foundations San Mateo, CA, United States Eng[...]

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

Job summary

Roblox Corporation in San Mateo seeks a Senior Software Engineer to transform software development processes. You'll collaborate with teams enhancing productivity and will have a direct impact on over 2000 engineers.

The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, with 3-5 years of experience, a BS in Computer Science, and fluency in programming languages like Python or Go. The position offers an annual salary range of $196,750 to $243,290 and requires onsite availability on Tuesday to Thursday.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in software development.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with development tools used by multiple developers.

Responsibilities

• Support and scale Roblox's development cycle.
• Create tools and apps to improve coworker productivity.
• Collaborate on enhancing productivity of CI tools.

Skills

Experience in software development

Collaboration and communication skills

Knowledge of source control

Familiarity with CI tools

Experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes

Programming language proficiency (Python, Go, C#)

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Artifactory

Terraform

Vault

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Acceleration Foundations

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!

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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#).

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.