Software Engineer, Economy Platform

Roblox Corporation; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 153,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

Roblox Corporation in San Mateo, CA is hiring for an early career Software Engineer to help build high-availability backend systems for Roblox's Economy Platform, focusing on REST APIs, microservices, and scalable containerized services.

You will influence the direction of one of the world's largest virtual economies, collaborating with product teams to improve revenue models while ensuring performance and reliability across services.

Qualifications

• A passion for working on highly available and large-scale backend systems in production.
• Knowledge of REST, API design patterns, and scalable containerized systems and microservices
• A data-driven focus on quality metrics and monitoring

Responsibilities

• Have direct impact on the future direction of one of the largest virtual economies in the world and the largest social platform for play
• Develop highly scalable, resilient systems for our creators to optimize their revenue within Roblox
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product teams to identify and introduce new economic models

Skills

REST

API design

Microservices

Containerization

Monitoring

Backend systems

Data-driven decisions

Job description

San Mateo, CA, United States Early Career ID: 36339

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.

Robux is Roblox’s virtual currency and it enables players to participate in our virtual economy and creators to earn a living. The Economy Platform team owns the systems powering these transactions, ensuring our global economy remains healthy, vibrant, and trusted. You will work on robust, extensible, and flexible systems involving purchasing, pricing, and payout systems that process billions of transactions and pay out hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

You Have

• A passion for working on highly available and large-scale backend systems in production
• Knowledge of REST, API design patterns, and scalable containerized systems and microservices
• A data-driven focus on quality metrics and monitoring
• 1-3 years of experience in Software Engineering / Computer Science

You Will

• Have direct impact on the future direction of one of the largest virtual economies in the world and the largest social platform for play
• Develop highly scalable, resilient systems for our creators to optimize their revenue within Roblox
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product teams to identify and introduce new economic models

Annual Salary Range

$153,120 — $196,750 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.