Senior Software Engineer - Engineering Acceleration San Mateo, CA, United States Engineering

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

Job summary

Roblox Corporation is seeking a Service Management Senior Software Engineer to design unified developer tools and oversee changes to services at scale. You will partner with internal engineering teams to drive the service management platform, shaping front and back-end applications for thousands of change rollouts.

You'll mentor teams, promote automation and CI/CD best practices, and collaborate with global engineers to enable the Metaverse vision.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Experience building tools and systems used by engineers at scale (1000+).
• Familiarity with cloud technologies and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Partner with internal teams to build the service management platform for key user journeys.
• Develop and deploy frontend and backend apps that manage thousands of change rollouts daily.
• Collaborate on cross-functional architectural designs for multi-year scalability.
• Mentor engineers to improve automation and efficiency.
• Shape the team's vision with managers and drive it to life.
• Work with a global engineering team to advance metaverse technology.
• Be in the Roblox HQ office three days a week.

Skills

Frontend & Backend development

Customer-focused

Team collaboration

CI/CD practices

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

HashiCorp

Containers

CD Platforms

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 team at Roblox provides a golden path of intuitive tools and services helping every engineer at the company build, test, and ship world‑class software. As a Service Management Senior Software Engineer, your responsibilities will include designing and constructing unified user‑facing interfaces, engineering AI‑powered developer tools, and assisting engineers in overseeing all changes to their services.. If you are customer‑focused and looking for an environment to challenge you, you'll be right at home within our experienced and expanding Engineering team.

You Will:

• Partner with our internal Engineering teams to gather requirements and develop our service management platform that fulfills the critical user journeys
• Create, influence, and improve the overall development and implementation of front and back‑end applications that manage thousands of change rollouts everyday
• Collaborate with stakeholders and fellow engineering teams to come up with cross functional architectural designs tho be optimal for multiple years into the future
• Develop, mentor, and share best practices with our engineering teams to improve automation and efficiency
• Work closely with managers to shape the team's vision and bring that to life
• Work with a global team of engineers who are building groundbreaking technology to achieve the Metaverse
• You are required to be in the office at HQ 3 days a week (Tues‑Thurs).

You Have:

• A BS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience) and at least 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Designed, built, shipped, monitored, and supported tools and/or systems used by other engineers at Roblox scale (1000+ engineers)
• Experience with backend development and frontend development and best practices
• Designed and built tools at scale
• Extensive Infrastructure and distributed system experience
• Experience working with common cloud technologies
• Experience with Docker, Containers, and CD Platforms
• Familiarity with Hashi Corp and Kubernetes is a plus

You Are:

• Knowledgeable and proficient in deploying common industry build/test/CICD technology
• Experienced, with 8+ years as a software engineer
• Passionate about the engineering experience and productivity, and will be an advocate across engineering for the importance of CD practices to that experience
• Customer‑focused, you enjoy the challenge of working with your customers to establish outstanding solutions that solve their toughest problems
• A team player, you work with and inspire others around you, and you are comfortable working with people in any situation

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.