Senior Software Engineer - Release

Roblox; California (MO); On-site; USD 243,000 - 295,000; Full time

Job summary

Roblox, headquartered in San Mateo, CA, seeks a Senior Software Engineer for Release Engineering to empower hundreds of engineers delivering weekly releases across platforms. You will design backend services and automation, work with C++ engine code, and build rollback and rollout systems that scale to tens of millions of concurrent players.

The role requires 5+ years in backend development (C#, Python, TypeScript, or similar), comfort with C++, and strong telemetry/observability expertise.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building backend services (C#, Python, TypeScript or similar).
• Familiar with and comfortable working with C++.
• Experience with telemetry instrumentation and observability practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop backend services and automation that power release and experimentation across desktop, mobile, console, VR, and servers.
• Work in C++ engine code to improve telemetry reporting, enhance feature rollout and automatic abort capabilities, and extend release functionality.
• Build progressive client and server rollout, regression detection, and automated rollback systems for safe multi-platform releases at scale.
• Work directly with engineering customers to turn pain points into durable, flexible, and safe-by-default tooling.

Skills

Backend dev

C++ familiarity

Telemetry observability

Education

Bachelor's in CS or similar

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.

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Release Engineering team, you will build the systems that hundreds of engineers across Roblox use every day to safely ship code to tens of millions of concurrent players. Your work will empower teams to ship bold, high-impact changes quickly and confidently on every device Roblox runs on. If you enjoy building developer-facing infrastructure where reliability and blast radius directly impact end-users, you will be right at home on our growing team.

You Will:

• Design and develop backend services and automation that power our release and experimentation process across desktop, mobile, console, VR, and servers

• Work in C++ engine code to improve telemetry reporting, enhance feature rollout and automatic abort capabilities, and extend release functionality

• Build progressive client and server rollout, regression detection, and automated rollback systems that keep our weekly multi-platform releases safe at scale

• Work directly with engineering customers to turn pain points into durable, flexible, and safe-by-default tooling

You Have:

• 5+ years building backend services with C#, Python, TypeScript, or similar

• Familiar with and comfortable working with C++

• Familiar with telemetry instrumentation and observability practices

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science or similar

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 as described on this page.

Annual Salary Range

$243,290—$295,250 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.