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Senior / Principal Infrastructure Engineer - ML Platform
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. ML Platform @ Roblox today supports hundreds of ML use cases and billions of inferences per day across Discovery, Safety, Engine, and much more. As an Infrastructure Engineer on the ML Platform team, you will design, scale, and maintain the foundational infrastructure powering our entire machine learning ecosystem. We are looking for accomplished engineers to spearhead the development of our next-generation ML tooling and platform capabilities. You will: - Bootstrap and maintain Kubernetes and Cloud infrastructure for ML Platform components--Serving Layer, Metadata Store, Model Registry, and Pipeline Orchestrator. - Set technical strategy and oversee development of high scale and reliable infrastructure systems. - Propose and implement new platform tooling to improve time to production for MLEs and Data Scientists across the full ML lifecycle. - Work on infrastructure projects such as GPU fleet management, hybrid-cloud orchestration, and writing custom Kubernetes controllers and resources. - Stay abreast of industry trends in machine learning and infrastructure to ensure the adoption of leading-edge technologies and practices. - Partner across organizations to build tooling, interfaces, and visualizations that make the ML@Roblox a delight to use. You have: - 6+ years of professional experience and a tool chest of system design experience upon which to draw to build scalable, reliable platforms. - Deep experience with Kubernetes (K8s) and cluster management at scale — e.g., managing 100s–1000s of nodes, serving 100k+ QPS, and ideally having experience writing custom Kubernetes controllers. - Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), specifically using Terraform to bootstrap, manage, and automate cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, or similar environments. - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or a similar technical field or equivalent practical experience. You are: - Proficient in DevOps tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD systems, and bootstrapping cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc.) - Experienced with the end-to-end ML model lifecycle such as model serving, training, model CI/CD, and GPU resources management, and have built ML platform features that are delightful to use. - An automation advocate: you're passionate about infrastructure-as-code and automating painful manual processes. - A reliability nut: you love digging into tricky postmortems and identifying weaknesses in complicated systems. - Passionate about supporting internal partners (data scientists and ML Engineers) to meet and understand their needs. 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 $278,530 - $345,040 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.
Principal Software Engineer - Roblox Database
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. Roblox’s database team develops the next-generation, multi-tenant database platform that elastically scales and underpins every online data workload at Roblox. As a principal engineer on the database team, you will shape the architecture, build and launch critical database capabilities that keep our services fast, reliable and efficient at global scale. You will report to the Technical Director for Storage. You will: - Design and implement new engine features —indexing, storage formats, WAL and replication protocols, sharding, and query-planner enhancements—that push latency, throughput, and availability boundaries. - Evolve the control plane to deliver elastic scaling, autonomous healing, and zero-downtime schema or tenant moves across global regions. - Profile and optimize critical code paths using kernel-level tracing and advanced performance tooling; drive systematic tail-latency reductions. - Establish engineering best practices by leading design reviews, performance benchmarks, failure drills, and post-incident retrospectives. - Automate everything : develop frameworks for testing, CI/CD, rollout safety, observability, and autoscaling so that the platform operates hands-off at scale. - Mentor and unblock engineers , fostering deep database craftsmanship and disseminating knowledge across Storage, Platform, and product teams. - Engage with the open-source community —upstreaming patches, presenting learnings, and influencing the future of Postgres, RocksDB and related ecosystems. You have: - 8+ years of experience in software engineering or a relevant field - Deep experience with building and operating large-scale distributed databases or storage engines (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL/InnoDB, RocksDB, Spanner, Aurora, AlloyDB). - Deep expertise in database internals —B-trees, MVCC, WAL, query optimization, buffer management—and strong skills in C/C++, GO or Rust . - Hands-on experience with consensus algorithms (Raft, Paxos) and multi-region replication models that deliver strong consistency and high availability. - Proven success shipping high-QPS, low-latency services on container orchestration stacks (Kubernetes or Nomad) with comprehensive observability. - Ability to turn ambiguous product requirements into a clear technical roadmap and influence cross-functional stakeholders. - Passion for automation, rigorous testing, and data-driven decision-making that raises the reliability and efficiency bar. - Bonus: upstream contributions to PostgreSQL, RocksDB or other OSS databases; familiarity with disaggregated storage, HTAP workloads, or custom query languages. 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 $293,800 - $343,340 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.
Director, Engineering — Engineering Acceleration
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 platforms in our Engineering Acceleration org dictate how thousands of Roblox engineers ship, and how every backend service gets built, deployed, and kept reliable at scale. They sit on the critical path for production reliability, developer velocity, and security posture. Reporting to Andrew Swerdlow, you will rethink the entire engineering toolchain from the ground up to be agentic-native, creating a world where AI agents are first-class participants in software development and humans set direction and supervise. This is a unique opportunity to define what modern engineering infrastructure looks like at one of the largest platforms in the world. You will: - Reimagine the engineering toolchain as agentic-native, designing the platforms, guardrails, and feedback loops that let AI agents safely drive migrations, validation, and routine operational work. - Set a bold technical direction for AI-driven quality, including agent-generated tests, automated coverage of untested paths, intelligent verification, and continuous-deployment workflows. - Make software quality and SEV prevention a measurable property of the platform by investing in safe-change mechanisms, automated verification, progressive rollout, and fast, reliable rollback. - Drive down operational toil through automation, transforming manual, repeat work like patching and large-scale migrations into self-serve or agent-driven workflows. - Own and drive the roadmap, aligning cross-pod plans and execution against company goals for safe rollouts. You have: - Experience leading and growing engineering teams (including managing managers and/or senior ICs), with a strong people-development track record. - Strong technical depth in backend/distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, enabling you to engage credibly on system design and technical decisions. - A track record delivering internal developer platforms, CI/CD, or deployment systems at scale for many internal customers and services. - A strong point of view on how AI/agentic tooling changes engineering workflows, coupled with hands-on familiarity with the modern AI engineering stack, AI coding tools, eval design, and open-weight models. - Demonstrated cross-organizational collaboration and excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate ambiguous, multi-system problems into concrete, executable plans. - (Preferred) Backend proficiency in C# and/or Go, and familiarity with Kubernetes/Nomad (Hashistack), Temporal, and AWS. - (Preferred) Hands-on experience applying AI/agents to engineering workflows, with a background in safe/staged rollouts (canary, feature flags) and incident prevention/automated verification. 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 $399,420 - $457,970 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.
Senior Security Engineer, Detection and Response
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 founding member of the Security Operations team in EMEA, you will join us at an exciting time in Roblox’s SIRT & SOC program. You will design and build the detections, automation and tooling that let a lean team monitor and protect players, developers, employees and the platform at global scale and serve as security incident commander in the region. This is a highly autonomous role where you will be a primary decision-maker, core to our mission to maintain a highly capable 24/7/365 monitoring and response capability. While you will work in close collaboration with peers at our US West Coast Headquarters, the time difference requires an engineer who can operate independently, making critical decisions without immediate oversight. We favor engineering our way out of toil through automation, orchestration, detections-as-code, and risk-based prioritization, while retaining the deep technical skills required to conduct detailed, hands-on analysis and lead response end-to-end when the situation warrants. Work Environment: This role is based in London, UK. You will be working from a dedicated, private space located within a shared office environment, designed to enable collaboration while remaining secure. You will: - Build Detection & Response Systems: Design, write, and maintain production-quality detections, automations and integrations (detections-as-code, SOAR playbooks, data and enrichment pipelines) that scale our monitoring capability and reduce manual toil. - Own Tooling & Platform: Develop and improve the tooling the global SIRT/SOC depends on alert quality and enrichment, case-management integrations and automation that powers reliable "follow-the-sun" hand-offs. - Exercise High Autonomy: Act as the primary Incident Commander for the European time zone, making critical, time-sensitive decisions independently before US HQ comes online. You will serve as the senior-most security engineering point of contact in the region. - Drive Strategy & Architecture: Shape the technical direction of the detection & response engineering function, specifically architecting how global hand-offs and "follow-the-sun" models can be optimized and automated. - Command Security Incidents: Ensure serious threats and impacts are understood, mitigated, and learned from with speed and professionalism, often leading responses end-to-end without immediate escalation paths during local hours — and turning what you learn into durable, automated detections. - Conduct Forensic Investigations & Threat Hunt: Dig into complex context to determine whether threats exist, take decisive action and proactively hunt for anomalous activity in our signals, distinguishing outliers from threats. - Lead High-Profile Responses: Collaborate with Security and Engineering to lead responses to major vulnerabilities or platform-wide events. - Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work with Legal, HR, Executive teams, and external partners (Developers & Customers). You will also travel semi-regularly to the USA to visit HQ, ensuring deep alignment with central engineering and security leadership. You have: - Experience: 10+ years across security engineering, Infosec, IT, Infra/SRE, and/or Incident Response. - Specialization: 7+ years specifically in Detection or Response, with a track record of building , writing detections, automation or security tooling, not solely operating. - Engineering Proficiency: Comfortable writing and reviewing production-quality code (Scripting) and building automations, integrations and data pipelines that others depend on. - Autonomous Leadership: Proven ability to work independently in satellite offices or distributed teams. You are comfortable being the "person in charge" during your shift and making calls that impact the business. - Incident Command: Extensive experience operating as an incident commander. You can flex into deep engineering work but also possess the executive presence to coordinate responders and communicate status to leadership. - Investigations: Expert-level capability investigating threats in enterprise and production environments, taking ownership from identification to resolution. - Knowledge/Tools/Techniques: Deep understanding of security tooling (SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS, NDR, SOAR) and experience extending or building on it. You are proficient in applying Incident Response frameworks (NIST IR Lifecycle, Cyber Kill Chain, MITRE ATT&CK) to real-world scenarios, and you collaborate effectively with engineering colleagues, leveraging extensive expertise across infrastructure and technologies (Public Cloud, OS, Virtualization, Containerization, Networking, Build/Development infrastructure, and Hardware). - Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field; advanced degree preferred or equivalent experience. You are: - A Builder-Operator: You would rather automate a problem out of existence than staff around it and you hold yourself to an engineering bar even under incident pressure. - A Strategic Self-Starter: You don't wait for instructions. You identify gaps in coverage — especially those unique to regional or time-zone-specific challenges — and fix them. - A Detailed Thinker: You enjoy exploring the details and considering the second- and third-order effects of your decisions. - An Eager Problem Solver: You are drawn to complex issues rather than avoidant of them. - Emboldened to Make Change: You instinctively ask what you can do to improve the situation rather than waiting to be prompted. - Compelled by our Mission: You are driven by the opportunity to protect our community and the safe space we've created. - A Calculated Risk Taker: You move fast, navigating reasonable risks to take action and build capabilities as quickly as possible. 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.
Senior Child Safety Intelligence Analyst
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 Child Safety Intelligence Analyst on Roblox’s Safety Intelligence Team, you will be on the front lines protecting the platform’s youngest and most vulnerable users. This is a proactive intelligence role focused on identifying, tracking, and disrupting systemic threats to minors, to include child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSAE), grooming behaviors, peer-to-peer harassment, financial minor extortion (sextortion) and bad-actor networks trying to exploit platform features to victimize minors. You will blend quantitative and qualitative data, open-source intelligence (OSINT), behavioral analysis, and deep knowledge of online culture to uncover adversarial trends before they impact the platform ecosystem, and provide your analysis to teams across Roblox and company leadership. Your insights will directly shape automated detection logic, product safety features, and platform policy. Psychological Wellness Note: This role involves exposure to highly sensitive and potentially disturbing themes regarding the exploitation of minors. Roblox offers resources to support employees handling this challenging work. You Will: - Intelligence and Threat Collection: Proactively hunt threats by monitoring the platform and external channels to map out threat actors, evasion techniques, and emerging trends targeting minors in online surfaces. Lead all-source intelligence collection planning for CE risks. - Data and Signal Development: Analyze text, voice, assets, in-game economies, and social mechanics to isolate behavioral indicators of new or developing child safety risks. Collaborate with data science and engineering teams to translate intelligence findings into automated heuristics, keywords, and machine learning signals to catch bad actors at scale. - Product Risk Advisory: Support the development of new platform features by identifying minor safety vulnerabilities before launch. - Metrics and Reporting: Author comprehensive threat briefings and intelligence products for Safety leadership and cross-functional teams. - Third-Party Partnerships: Represent Roblox externally with third-parties to include NGOs and industry partners, and support third-party intelligence gathering. - Mentoring: Coach junior teammates on analytic tradecraft and intelligence work. You Have: - Deep understanding of the global child safety landscape, adversarial behavior online, and common vectors of minor exploitation (CSAM/CSAE, financial grooming, account takeovers). - 7-10 years of experience in Trust & Safety, Threat Intelligence, Digital Forensics, or Cybercrime Investigations (preferably within gaming, social media, or live-streaming ecosystems). - A bachelor's degree in criminology, data analytics, cybersecurity, international relations, or related field, or equivalent experience. - Experience identifying sources for intelligence collection to identify risks in a gaming, social, or other media platform environment and building a collection plan. - Proficiency in SQL or Python to query large datasets and isolate behavioral anomalies. - Experience with OSINT tools and methodologies (e.g., Maltego, social media mapping, domain analysis). - Native familiarity with modern gaming mechanics (in-game economies, modding communities, cross-play) and youth digital culture/slang. - Proven ability to maintain personal well-being and operational rigor while occasionally reviewing highly sensitive, distressing, or taboo content, 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 $174,100 - $207,480 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.
Senior / Principal Data Scientist - Discovery
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. WHY DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS? The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency and acumen of making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product verticals, we use this extensive tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products and measure impact on our community of players and developers. WHY DISCOVERY EXPERIENCES? Roblox is not just a platform; it is a complex, two-sided marketplace where millions of creators meet over 70 million daily active users. The Discovery Experiences team is the technical heartbeat of this ecosystem. We own the surfaces—Home, Search, Matchmaking, and Notifications—that determine how users navigate the metaverse. As a Data Scientist , you will own the ranking initiatives that power these canvases. You aren't just building models; you are building the economic and social frameworks that decide which experiences thrive. You will report directly to the Senior Director of Data Science and serve as a high-visibility IC leader driving the roadmap for our most critical consumer touchpoints. You Will: - Algorithmic Vision: Lead the development of ML solutions and ranking frameworks that power our discovery canvases. You will move beyond local optimizations to solve for long-term ecosystem health and user retention. - Strategic XFN Partnership: Act as the primary scientific advisor to Product and Engineering leaders. You will use data to inform, drive, and accelerate innovations via deep-dive insights and ML prototypes. - Causal Inference & Experimentation: Leverage advanced causal inference methodologies to measure the effectiveness of platform initiatives (e.g., social features or site-wide events) that are often susceptible to complex network effects. - Foundational Scaling: Develop frameworks to scale the hypothesis generation process, ensuring that our experimentation velocity matches our massive growth. - First-Principles Problem Solving: Apply creative, first-principles reasoning to ambiguous problems, such as balancing the visibility of established "top tier" experiences with the discovery of new, niche UGC content. You Have: - Advanced degree (Masters or PhD) in a quantitative field (Statistics, CS, Physics, Applied Math, or Economics). - 10+ years of experience (or 6+ with a PhD) in Data Science, Economics, or ML Engineering, specifically within large-scale recommendation systems or UGC content platforms . - Expert in the modern data stack (Python, R, SQL, Hive, Spark, Airflow) and have a deep theoretical and practical understanding of Deep Learning. - Ability to design sophisticated experiments that account for the nuances of a two-sided marketplace and social network effects. - Ability to distill high-dimensional problems into succinct, actionable narratives for non-technical executive audiences. 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 $307,430 - $373,680 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.
Principal Software Engineer, Game Safety
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. WHY SAFETY? At Roblox, we strive to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and the Safety organization’s mission is to become the leader in civil immersive online communities. We systematically detect, remove, and prevent problematic accounts, content and behavior, and we make Roblox accounts secure and free from compromise. We cover a broad area of the tech spectrum, including machine learning, classifiers for 3D models, experimentation, automation, detection workflows, and AI-powered text filters. Aligned and partnering with product teams, we use this toolbelt to discover new opportunities, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build safety products, and measure the impact on our community of users and developers. In doing so, we keep Roblox safe, civil, and inclusive, and we foster positive relationships between people around the world. WHY GAME SAFETY? As a Principal Software Engineer on Game Safety, you’ll work on some of the most challenging problems we face. You will transform our experience safety efforts into a scale-oriented, near-real-time problem, in an adversarial context. This requires an understanding of code, 3D content, player behavior, and more, working at Roblox scale (billions of monthly engagement hours). The ideal candidate is creative, flexible across the stack, and proactive in advancing our mission of keeping users safe. Since engineering drives most of the team’s roadmap, we value initiative and problem-solving. You Will: - Build and scale distributed systems that power game moderation at Roblox, ensuring billions of monthly engagement hours are safe and civil. - Operate as a high-agency problem solver: whether the solution requires deep-diving into backend services, scaling ML pipelines, or diving into data, you do what’s needed to ship impactful safety products - Develop innovative detection approaches in a rapidly evolving, adversarial landscape, using a data-driven lens to identify new opportunities. - Lead through technical excellence: you define the team’s direction by being the first to dive into the hardest problems, earning influence through your execution and mentorship. - Partner cross-functionally with Moderation Operations, Product Management, and Data Science to deliver end-to-end products that protect our community. You Have: - 6+ years of experience building and shipping high-scale backend systems to production. Experience with machine learning is a plus - 6+ years of experience working on multi-person codebases, including open-source or personal projects - Passion for delivering products end-to-end, from ideation through implementation, with laser focus on the end goal while being empathetic with cross-functional stakeholders You Are: - Resourceful: You're adaptable in any situation and can always find a path forward. - Analytical: Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and quantify the problems and the solutions. - User Oriented: You always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers before architecting a solution. - Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger. You are a sought-after mentor. You foster a culture of technical excellence. - Mission Driven: You stay laser-focused on the mission and are versatile, creative, and strategic to achieve it. You think long-term, and find ways to deliver short-term value on the way to get there. 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 $295,250 - $345,040 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.
Senior Software Engineer, Geometry
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 Geometry team, you will drive foundational algorithms for real-time 3D content creation and editing that power the Roblox platform. Working in a small, autonomous team, you will solve novel math computational problems and deliver immersive, expressive creative tools to millions of users. At this level, you are expected to own pod-level or team-level projects from inception to implementation, provide technical direction to junior collaborators, and contribute to the team’s long-term technical strategy. You Will: - Own End-to-End Development: Lead complex, team-level projects through the full development lifecycle, from research and prototyping to production deployment and maintenance. - Architect Robust Solutions: Develop efficient algorithms for geometry processing (e.g., convex decomposition, mesh partitioning, boolean operations) that support real-time simulation, collision detection, and performance requirements across all platforms. - Mentor and Lead: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of high standards, code quality, and collaborative architectural discussions. - Solve Computational Problems: Tackle discrete math and computational geometry challenges, applying linear algebra, numerical solvers, and advanced data structures to deliver robust features. - Think Systemically: Anticipate downstream impacts of your technical decisions, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with the long-term vision of the Geometry and Engine teams. - Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with other teams (Graphics, Physics, Avatar) to ensure cohesive integration of geometry components into the broader Roblox experience. You Have: - Experienced: You have 5+ years of industry experience (or equivalent research experience) in C++ and 3D application development, specifically in optimizing 3D game engines or real-time geometry applications. - Technically Proficient: Highly skilled in modern C++ with a focus on writing organized, efficient, and reusable code. You possess deep knowledge of advanced data structures, algorithms, and computational linear algebra (vector/matrix math, numerical solvers, finite-element methods). - Mathematically Minded: You have a passion for solving complex geometry problems and a strong grasp of computational geometry concepts, simulation, and real-time graphics. - A Proven Mentor: You actively seek opportunities to learn from peers and effectively guide junior collaborators, elevating the team's collective skill set. - Agile and Systematic: You excel in navigating ambiguity, breaking down complex requirements into deliverable stages, and making data-driven decisions that align with organizational objectives. - Educated: You are a natural coder and problem-solver, ideally holding an MSc or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field with a focus on computational geometry, modeling, or simulation.sni Nice-to-Haves: - Experience with WebGL or other web-based 3D frameworks. - Experience programming in Unity or Unreal Engine. - Led feature development from concept definition to shipping a product. - A history of publications or contributions to the field of computational geometry. 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.
Director of Engineering - AI for Roblox Studio
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. Why Roblox Studio? Roblox Studio is the creation engine behind millions of immersive 3D experiences built by creators around the world. It serves everyone from first-time developers to large professional studios, combining a powerful real-time engine with a deeply expressive toolchain. We’re entering a major platform transition: evolving Studio into an AI-Native IDE , where intelligent systems can plan, act, validate, and iterate alongside creators. This shift is foundational to the future of creation on Roblox and must be executed with rigor, reliability, and scale. The Role We are seeking a Director of Engineering for Studio Assistant to own and drive this transformation. In this role, you are accountable for the architecture, execution, and long-term success of agentic AI systems embedded deeply into Roblox Studio. You will operate at the intersection of platform engineering, AI systems, and developer experience by setting direction not just for features, but for how AI-powered creation works at Roblox. This role carries responsibility for multi-year platform bets , organizational design, and the technical quality bar for AI inside Roblox Studio. This role will be based in our San Mateo, CA headquarters (hybrid with Tues-Thurs onsite days). You Will: - Own the technical direction and delivery of Studio’s AI-Native IDE strategy. - Build and scale agentic AI systems (planning, execution, validation, evaluation) that are production-grade and reliable. - Set and uphold the engineering quality bar for AI systems inside Studio. - Lead senior engineers and managers across multiple teams. - Drive alignment and execution across Studio, Creator, Foundation AI, Safety, and Infrastructure . - Partner with executive leadership to translate long-term AI strategy into durable roadmaps. You Have: - 15+ years of engineering experience , including ownership of large-scale, long-lived platforms. - Proven leadership through major platform or architectural transitions . - Deep experience building LLM-powered and agentic systems beyond chat-based interfaces.</li
Principal Software Engineer - Roblox Database
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. Roblox’s database team develops the next-generation, multi-tenant database platform that elastically scales and underpins every online data workload at Roblox. As a principal engineer on the database team, you will shape the architecture, build and launch critical database capabilities that keep our services fast, reliable and efficient at global scale. You will report to the Technical Director for Storage. You will: - Design and implement new engine features —indexing, storage formats, WAL and replication protocols, sharding, and query-planner enhancements—that push latency, throughput, and availability boundaries. - Evolve the control plane to deliver elastic scaling, autonomous healing, and zero-downtime schema or tenant moves across global regions. - Profile and optimize critical code paths using kernel-level tracing and advanced performance tooling; drive systematic tail-latency reductions. - Establish engineering best practices by leading design reviews, performance benchmarks, failure drills, and post-incident retrospectives. - Automate everything : develop frameworks for testing, CI/CD, rollout safety, observability, and autoscaling so that the platform operates hands-off at scale. - Mentor and unblock engineers , fostering deep database craftsmanship and disseminating knowledge across Storage, Platform, and product teams. - Engage with the open-source community —upstreaming patches, presenting learnings, and influencing the future of Postgres, RocksDB and related ecosystems. You have: - 8+ years of experience in software engineering or a relevant field - Deep experience with building and operating large-scale distributed databases or storage engines (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL/InnoDB, RocksDB, Spanner, Aurora, AlloyDB). - Deep expertise in database internals —B-trees, MVCC, WAL, query optimization, buffer management—and strong skills in C/C++, GO or Rust . - Hands-on experience with consensus algorithms (Raft, Paxos) and multi-region replication models that deliver strong consistency and high availability. - Proven success shipping high-QPS, low-latency services on cont
Senior Software Engineer
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. About Team The Roblox Operating System (ROS) serves as our core productivity engine, defining the organizational workflows that power Roblox. By leveraging a unified toolset, ROS influences talent strategy, operational planning, knowledge discovery, and global scalability. Our Observability and AI Intelligence (OA) pod within ROS manages the foundational data infrastructure for ROS, providing the telemetry, search, and governance frameworks essential for intelligent product experiences. We lead initiatives in AI observability and data privacy, building the connector systems that ensure reliable, data-driven insights across our entire ecosystem. As a Senior Engineer within this newly established India-based team, you will define how we operationalize and productize data for ROS. You will work alongside global stakeholders to architect critical systems that drive technical excellence and company-wide impact. About the Role We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our engineering team in India. This is a backend-focused full-stack role — roughly 80% backend and 20% frontend — for someone who can design and build scalable services and APIs while also contributing to user-facing applications when needed. You will take ownership of significant projects end to end, lead technical design on complex systems, and help shape architecture decisions across the stack. You will work with modern backend technologies, integrate with frontend applications, and explore new tools — including AI — to improve development efficiency and product capabilities. You will - Lead the technical design and implementation of complex backend systems, services, and APIs - Build robust, scalable, and maintainable server-side applications and data flows - Take end-to-end ownership of significant projects, from design through deployment and iteration - Contribute to technical discussions and architecture decisions, with primary focus on backend systems - Architect and build high-performance RESTful/GraphQL APIs and complex backend business logic - Work with databases, caching, messaging, and other backend infrastructure as needed - Ensure reliability, performance, security, and observability in production systems - Uphold high engineering standards through code quality, reviews, testing, and best practices - Explore and apply new tools and approaches — including AI — to improve development workflows and product capabilities - Develop and maintain observability frameworks specifically for the AI s
Creator Growth Operations Manager, Monetization
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 the Creator Growth Operations Manager , you’ll drive the enablement, onboarding, and optimization strategies for developers integrating monetization, growth, and advertising solutions, such as rewarded video (RV) ads into their free-to-play (F2P) gaming experiences. You’ll combine business development, operations, and busines performance expertise across game monetization and developer enablement to help creators build sustainable, player-first economies. You’ll work closely with engineering, product, and business teams to enhance the developer experience, improve game performance, and simplify integration workflows. Your impact will extend across the ecosystem as developers adopt new monetization products that boost player engagement and unlock new revenue opportunities. You will: - Empower Developers: Guiding creators on best practices for implementing monetization, growth, and ad solutions that enhance player experience and drive sustainable creator earnings. - Accelerate Adoption by designing programs that encourage adoption of new monetization and ad products through education, workshops, and incentives. - Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to identify developer needs, influence product roadmaps, and ensure seamless implementation of monetization and growth tools. - Monitor key performance metrics to identify and model opportunities that improve monetization performance, optimize integrations, and elevate developer satisfaction. - Advocate for Developers: Representing developer perspectives to shape the future of monetization, growth, and advertising on Roblox. - Lead enablement and onboarding for developers integrating monetization, growth, and ad products, ensuring a scalable and frictionless experience. - Drive product experimentation for new features to evaluate the true impact on scaled games - Provide strategic guidance on incorporating monetization and ad products, such as rewarded video into gameplay loops to balance engagement and revenue. - Develop, document, and share best practices that help developers create meaningful, player-first monetization experiences. You Have: - 7+ years of experience in games product management or product operations - Deep understanding of free to play with hands-on experience balancing In-App Purchases (IAP) with In-App Advertising (IAA), ensuring they complement rather than cannibalize each other. - Proven success collaborating across engineering, produ
Senior Software Engineer, Client Systems (C++)
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 Senior Software Engineer on the Consumer Frontend team, you will leverage the Roblox tech stack and tools to build groundbreaking experiences that push the boundaries of what is possible on the platform. Your efforts will not only help create amazing content, but more importantly, will help us highlight issues, improve and extend our animation tech, tools and pipeline for all developers. These efforts will enable our game developers to create engaging and delightful experiences for our millions of players. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about Client side development. You need to be proficient in C++ or building client side system libraries on mobile/Desktop platforms. Prior experience building C++ based applications, libraries/frameworks or SDK is highly desirable. You will: - Be the primary C++ expert in the team and drive frontend C++ strategy for extending our interface layer. - Work with stakeholders across Engineering, Product, and Design to expand frontend ecosystems and drive technical enhancements in engineering space. - Implement innovative solutions to feature requests and collaborate with the Roblox Surface owners on new initiatives. - Have fun working with our internal team members and community developers to improve the overall state of Lua App on Roblox You have: - 4+ years of experience with significant knowledge of system or mobile programming. - Proficiency in C++: Strong C++ programming skills with an ability to write high quality, performant code; experience with Lua is a plus - Passion about building frameworks and libraries: You are driven to build a strong platform with world class design patterns and cutting edge system architecture. - Performance focus : You embrace software performance considerations, with an ability to implement performant solutions for platforms including mobile. - Personally Motivated: Self-sufficient, self-organized and able to take ownership of a project throughout its full lifecycle - A Team player mentality: Ability to work closely with and inspire the rest of your team while displaying excellent interpersonal and communication skills For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, C
Sr Product Manager, Ads & Brands
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 Developer-Facing Product Manager for Ads & Brands, you will build the tools and frameworks that turn virtual worlds into sustainable businesses. You will spend your days collaborating directly with developers (from solo hobbyists to multi-million dollar studios) to understand how they integrate ad formats natively into their game loops. Your job is to take those deep behavioral insights, marry them with demand-side market realities, and scale our global ad inventory while protecting the core user experience. You will report to the Director of Brand Ads. You are - Developer-First: You understand that our marketplace doesn't exist without an active, trusting creator base. You fight for fair revenue transparency and frictionless integration workflows. - A Systems Thinker: You look at problems through a marketplace lens, instantly understanding how a shift in demand-side targeting affects supply-side fill rates and developer payouts. - Data-Driven and Analytical: You rely on concrete experimental frameworks, using A/B testing methods to isolate how ad density impacts player churn and long-term engagement. - A Collaborative Translator: You effortlessly turn qualitative developer frustrations into clean, clear, and actionable technical specifications for core engineering squads. You will - Day-to-Day: Meet directly with creator communities to review current layout strategies, dig into platform telemetry data to monitor ad placement performance, and align daily with developer monetization engineers to optimize the SDK integration pipeline. - Long-Term: Design and scale a highly automated, self-service developer ecosystem that treats in-game advertising as a premium, low-friction, and predictable monetization lever, solidifying Roblox as the gold standard for creator economy monetization. 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
Senior Rendering Engineer Manager
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 Roblox Vision 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 platform that empowers our community to bring any experience imaginable 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. Why Join Our Rendering Team? Roblox is seeking an experienced and passionate senior engineering manager to lead a team of talented engineers building cutting edge rendering technology. The rendering team at Roblox is at the heart of how millions of creators and players experience our platform. We are a group that is highly passionate about pushing the boundaries of visuals, scalability and performance. We develop our in-house engine and are in control of our entire technology stack, from the rendering pipeline, the lighting techniques, the material system, the voxel terrain to the VFX system and the server infrastructure. Roblox continues to tackle an unprecedented scalability challenge: to allow User Generated Content to take advantage of high end devices while scaling all the way down to low end mobile devices, across a vast array of platforms and genres. Our technology stack and features must allow Creators to express their amazing vision and we must cater to Creators that range from professional developers to enthusiastic newcomers. Our engine must be capable of producing visuals that look great on high end devices while preserving their intent on low end devices. The Roblox platform has an immense reach. Our work makes it into the hands of hundreds of millions of users all over the world. You will: - Lead and mentor a world-class team of rendering engineers focused on one of the following pillars: - The core rendering pipeline, culling and dispatching systems, graphics APIs backends (Vulkan, Metal, Direct3D, agc, OpenGL) and related systems. - The Lighting, shading, materials, global illumination, and post-processing systems. - Act as a hands-on technical leader, providing guidance on architectural decisions and implementation, from low-level details to high level choice of algorithms, and ensuring the stability and efficiency of our technology stack. - Partner with your team and other engineering leaders to define and execute the vision for
[2026] Applied Scientist - PhD Intern
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. Roblox is spearheading the future of immersive entertainment with the ambitious goal of dominating 10% of the gaming market. Join us to tackle challenges that enable AI-driven creation and massive concurrency for a global community where innovation meets safety. During this 12 or 16 week internship, you will drive a project from ideation to experimentation, production or publication, with the possibility of continued collaboration beyond the internship.Your project will focus on the hardest problems in tech today affecting massive scale with 112+ million daily active users. We support experimentation and production with top researchers, engineers, faculty, and PhD candidates globally that can lead to publications at esteemed venues. Teams Hiring For This Role: - Search and Discovery: powers major recommendation surfaces—conducting cutting-edge research in generative modeling, multimodal and MLLM technologies, designing advanced agentic AI algorithms to solve business requirements while achieving technical breakthroughs. - Economy: Expand the ML backbone powering monetization, marketplace, and payments, solving problems related to fraud, pricing, and personalization - Ads & Brands: Evolve the intersection of recommendation systems, ranking, and marketplace/auction theory to optimize sponsored content delivery - Safety: Create scalable AI for real-time safety & moderation using LLMs, NLP, and computer vision to safeguard text, voice, and accounts. - Engine: Develop innovative technology for our immersive 3D graphics, advancing geometry, physics simulation, motion diffusion models, and scalable distributed systems - Creator: Empower creators with generative AI and NLP technologies, building intuitive tools for automated content understanding and real-time localization - Foundational AI : Design and train 3D foundational models and optimize large-scale inference systems, enabling intelligent 3D content generation. - Infrastructure: Build systems that ensure the reliability and scalability of Roblox’s datacenter, backbone, and edge networks, which support all of our production services. You Will - Prototype and experiment with advanced AI, machine learning, and 3D technologies to solve real-world challenges at scale - Tra
Technical Developer Connections Manager
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 Technical Developer Connections Manager on the Developer Connections team, you’ll play a critical role in supporting and scaling Roblox’s creator ecosystem. You’ll act as a trusted technical partner to high-impact creators across strategic genres (RPG, FPS, Sports) , supporting their growth, technical execution, and long-term success on the platform. You’ll support priority escalations and collaborate closely with product and engineering teams during platform incidents, while also designing internal tools and automation to improve operational efficiency and support quality. With deep expertise in Roblox Studio, performance optimization, and live-operations troubleshooting, you’ll help creators build stable, high-performing experiences while strengthening long-term relationships across the platform. You will: - Serve as a technical point of contact for creators, providing hands-on support, guidance, and best practices. - Diagnose and resolve performance, stability, and scalability issues in live games and experiences. - Own and manage high-priority creator escalations, including participation in an on-call rotation covering weekends and holidays (with flexible scheduling and compensatory time off). Partner with product and engineering teams to coordinate real-time responses to platform incidents and creator-impacting issues. - Act as a communication bridge between creators and internal teams, ensuring clarity, transparency, and timely updates. - Build internal tools and workflow automations (e.g., using Python) to improve response times, data visibility, and team efficiency. You have: - 5+ years of experience in game development or interactive experience development. - A bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience. - Hands-on experience building on Roblox and/or comparable creator platforms. - Deep understanding of the Roblox platform, Roblox Studio, and the creator ecosystem. - Strong expertise in performance optimization, debugging, and profiling for live games or experiences. - Proficiency in Lua, including scripting for tooling, automation, or diagnostics; familiarity with Python, C#, and .NET is a plus. - Experience with Roblox Studio workflows, tools, and production pipelines. - The ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams. - Excellent verbal and written communication s
Senior Design Engineer
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 Design Engineer on the Design Acceleration team, you’ll be an individual contributor focused on evolving the systems and processes which power Roblox’s design organization through scalable systems, AI integrations, and custom tooling. Our team is responsible for building the orchestration layers and internal tools that empower designers and engineers to work faster and more cohesively. You will help build internal tools, like Figma plugins and design utilities, that empower designers and engineers to work faster and more cohesively. You have experience at the intersection of systems engineering and design tooling. You understand design systems, but your superpower is building the backend services, APIs, and data models that allow those systems to scale. Your work will help ensure our design tools, AI agents, and prototypes not only inspire—but deploy seamlessly into production environments. You will: - Architect and build scalable backend services and APIs that connect our design tools to AI models and production environments (Roblox Studio). - Develop agentic workflows and orchestration layers (such as Model Context Protocol servers) to enable natural language generation of UI components, layouts, and prototypes. - Build automated CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure to abstract away complex DevOps workflows, creating "zero-config" development environments for non-technical designers. - Design and maintain the data architecture that connects our design system to our AI data sources, ensuring design tokens and components are programmatically accessible and synced across multiple platforms. - Create internal tools, develop plugins for tools like Figma and Cursor, and build web apps focused on design linting, code generation, and automated compliance at scale. - Serve as the deeply technical bridge between core engineering, AI research, and product design, ensuring our design acceleration tools are secure, performant, and structurally sound. - You will report to the Manager of Design Acceleration. You have: - 6+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on full-stack or backend development, systems architecture, and API design. - Demonstrated experience building scalable internal services, not just frontend interfaces. - Familiarity with LLM orchestration, agentic workflows, and AI protocols (e.g., MCP). - Experience with cloud infrastructure, feature-flag management, version control (GitHub Enterprise), and automated deployment pipelines.</l
Senior / Principal Data Scientist - Discovery
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. WHY DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS? The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency and acumen of making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product verticals, we use this extensive tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products and measure impact on our community of players and developers. WHY DISCOVERY EXPERIENCES? Roblox is not just a platform; it is a complex, two-sided marketplace where millions of creators meet over 70 million daily active users. The Discovery Experiences team is the technical heartbeat of this ecosystem. We own the surfaces—Home, Search, Matchmaking, and Notifications—that determine how users navigate the metaverse. As a Data Scientist , you will own the ranking initiatives that power these canvases. You aren't just building models; you are building the economic and social frameworks that decide which experiences thrive. You will report directly to the Senior Director of Data Science and serve as a high-visibility IC leader driving the roadmap for our most critical consumer touchpoints. You Will: - Algorithmic Vision: Lead the development of ML solutions and ranking frameworks that power our discovery canvases. You will move beyond local optimizations to solve for long-term ecosystem health and user retention. - Strategic XFN Partnership: Act as the primary scientific advisor to Product and Engineering leaders. You will use data to inform, drive, and accelerate innovations via deep-dive insights and ML prototypes. - Causal Inference & Experimentation: Leverage advanced causal inference methodologies to measure the effectiveness of platform initiatives (e.g., social features or site-wide events) that are often susceptible to complex network effects. - Foundational Scaling: Develop frameworks to scale the hypothesis generation process, ensuring that our experimentation velocity matches our massive growth. - First-Principles Problem Solving: Apply creative, first-principles reasoning to ambi
Principal Software Engineer, WebRTC
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 Principal Software Engineer, Audio-Video-Communication team, you'll be in charge of building our upcoming platform to bring multi-modal communication experience - voice chat, 3D audio, and large-scale broadcast, to our users. If you enjoy working on C++ software while building products for the passionate community of Roblox, you'll be right at home within our experienced and growing social team. You will work with our Engineering Managers and Directors within our Engine's team, and will report to our Manager of the Real-Time Communications team. You Will: - Build and launch the latest real-time communication platform from the ground up, designed to support billions of users. - Employ best programming practices to write code that is efficient, maintainable, and scalable. - Play a crucial role in the introduction of high-quality communication features/products on a wide range of devices, from mobile to high-end platforms. - Enhance the robustness and performance of existing components - Collaborate with engineers across engine and partner teams to create synergistic solutions You Have: - Over 8+ years of experience developing and deploying user-facing software products. - Successfully deployed a high-quality, multi-service distributed system at scale with low costs. - Familiarity with the challenges of working at scale and on constrained platforms like consoles or mobile devices. - Experience in performance optimization (working in Kernel, Assembly, C, and memory management). - Proficiency in C++ and an understanding of parallel/concurrent programming concepts - A grasp of industry standards, best practices, and design patterns - Approached problems from multiple perspectives, weighing the advantages and drawbacks of different solutions You Are: - Enthusiastic about crafting software programming environments for game developers, eager to apply insights from multiple programming ecosystems to our scripting environment - Able to navigate complex codebases - Developing systems that are not just effective but also resilient over time - Inquisitive, constantly learning and keeping abreast of the latest trends in scripting languages and programming environments For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay
Senior Software Engineer, Geometry
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 Geometry team, you will drive foundational algorithms for real-time 3D content creation and editing that power the Roblox platform. Working in a small, autonomous team, you will solve novel math computational problems and deliver immersive, expressive creative tools to millions of users. At this level, you are expected to own pod-level or team-level projects from inception to implementation, provide technical direction to junior collaborators, and contribute to the team’s long-term technical strategy. You Will: - Own End-to-End Development: Lead complex, team-level projects through the full development lifecycle, from research and prototyping to production deployment and maintenance. - Architect Robust Solutions: Develop efficient algorithms for geometry processing (e.g., convex decomposition, mesh partitioning, boolean operations) that support real-time simulation, collision detection, and performance requirements across all platforms. - Mentor and Lead: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of high standards, code quality, and collaborative architectural discussions. - Solve Computational Problems: Tackle discrete math and computational geometry challenges, applying linear algebra, numerical solvers, and advanced data structures to deliver robust features. - Think Systemically: Anticipate downstream impacts of your technical decisions, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with the long-term vision of the Geometry and Engine teams. - Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with other teams (Graphics, Physics, Avatar) to ensure cohesive integration of geometry components into the broader Roblox experience. You Have: - Experienced: You have 5+ years of industry experience (or equivalent research experience) in C++ and 3D application development, specifically in optimizing 3D game engines or real-time geometry applications. - Technically Proficient: Highly skilled in modern C++ with a focus on writing organized, efficient, and reusable code. You possess deep knowledge of advanced data structures, algorithms, and computational linear algebra (vector/matrix math, numerical solvers, finite-element methods). - Mathematically Minded: You have a passion for solv
Senior Data Scientist - Growth Measurement
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. WHY DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS? The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency and acumen of making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product verticals, we use this extensive tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products and measure impact on our community of players and developers. WHY GROWTH MEASUREMENT? In this role, you will leverage your expertise in data science, statistics, and causal inference to develop measurement framework and product to deepen our quantitative understanding of growth efforts, which includes but not limited to performance marketing efficacy, attribution modeling and incrementality measurement. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and implement data-driven products and strategies that maximize the impact of our growth initiatives. You will also report to Senior Data Science leadership on the team. You Will: - Conduct comprehensive analyses and develop measurement framework for growth efforts using advanced statistical methods and causal inference methodologies - Collaborate with marketing, product, and engineering teams to find opportunities for improvement and build data-driven solutions. - Contribute to the development of a robust data infrastructure to support user growth. - Communicate insights and discuss recommendations with cross function partners translating complex technical concepts into actionable insights. - Partner with different product teams to optimize user growth strategies through insights, strategy, and leadership. You Have: - A MSc, PhD, or equivalent experience in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, or other quantitative fields. - 4+ years of experience in a data science role, with a focus on marketing science and campaign evaluation. - Strong knowledge and practical application of statistical methods, causal inference techniques, and experimental design. - Experience working with large datasets and proficiency in SQL, R/Python, and data visualization tools. - Experience in the gaming industry and/or multisided marketplaces. 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 $220,300 - $262,380 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.
Senior Security Software Engineer, Application Security
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 Security organization at Roblox is responsible for designing and engineering secure systems from inception through production. We define security standards, build scalable controls, and enable product and infrastructure teams to operate securely by default. The Application Security team partners closely with engineering teams early in the development lifecycle to drive secure architectures, establish standards, and deliver scalable security solutions. As a Senior Security Software Engineer - Application Security , you will be a hands-on engineer who designs, builds, and ships security solutions that integrate directly into developer workflows and platforms. You will play a key role in scaling application security through automation, CI/CD integrations, secure libraries, and reusable patterns. In this role, you will help define how security is embedded across the software development lifecycle at Roblox, balancing deep technical work (threat modeling, code review, penetration testing) with systemic solutions that reduce risk at scale. You will also participate in AppSec on-call rotations and contribute to security tooling and platform evolution. You will: - Integrate security into CI/CD pipelines and drive secure-by-default engineering practices - Design and build security controls, libraries, and guardrails directly in code - Develop and scale automated security tooling across CI/CD (SAST, dependency scanning, secrets detection, fuzzing, etc.) - Build and improve detection and prevention mechanisms for abuse, data exfiltration, and supply chain risks - Automate vulnerability triage, prioritization, and remediation workflows at scale - Integrate security into developer workflows and internal platforms to reduce friction and increase adoption - Design and implement security controls for agentic and AI-assisted workflows, building guardrails to mitigate risks such as prompt injection, data exfiltration, and misuse of developer and system privileges - Contribute to secure system design and architecture reviews, including threat modeling for new products and features You have: - 6+ years of experience in software engineering, application security, or security engineering - Strong coding skills in at least one language (e.g., Python, Go, C#, JavaScript, Rust, C++) - Build and scale security automation in CI/CD pipelines (SAST, SCA, secrets detection, and fuzzing) - Solid understanding of application security fundamentals (OWASP Top 10, auth models, common vulnerabilities and mitigations) - Background with cloud environments, and modern architectures (microservices, APIs) - Working knowledge of Linux/Windows systems, networking fundamentals, and system-level security - Experience designing and implementing secure, scalable systems, including APIs, microservices, and distributed architectures - Ability to translate security risks into practical, scalable engineering solutions - Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience Nice to Have: - Experience building security platforms, tools, or developer frameworks - Knowledge of cryptography, PKI, TLS, and secure implementations - Experience with container security and Kubernetes - Experience building internal security platforms or developer tooling - Background of supply chain security (SBOMs, signing, provenance, build integrity) You Are - Think long-term, building resilient and scalable security solutions rather than one-off fixes - Highly execution-focused and drive outcomes in fast-paced environments - Take ownership and proactively identify and mitigate risks - Collaborate effectively and influence engineering teams through practical solutions - Balance security and developer productivity to enable the business 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 $269,170 - $326,060 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.
Senior Software Engineer, iOS
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 Consumer Platform team owns the mobile app foundation that makes Roblox feel fast, fluid, and reliable for millions of players and is dedicated to delivering superior performance, reliability, and user experience on all platforms Roblox runs on. This team ensures a seamless and engaging user interface that facilitates intuitive interactions, alongside maintaining high performance and reliability for efficient, glitch-free operations. Innovation is at the core of our work, as we continuously enhance features and integrate cutting-edge technologies to find novel solutions to problems. We're hiring an exceptional iOS engineer to help us push the bar even higher. You will: - Shape & improve the iOS experience that millions of players open every day. - Lead architecture and implementation on a large, evolving Swift/Objective-C codebase, making decisions that hold up across years of product growth. - Push the platform forward by adopting the latest iOS, hardware, and iOS capabilities. - Partner deeply with product, design, and data science to materialize ideas. - Raise the engineering bar through code review, technical mentorship, and the standards you set in your own work. - (Principal) Set technical direction across multiple workstreams, drive multi-quarter initiatives that span teams, and act as a force multiplier for the broader iOS platform. You have: - 5+ years of track record of leading the design and delivery of mobile features at scale. - BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. - Deep, hands-on expertise in Swift and Objective-C, with a real point of view on modern iOS architecture (Swift Concurrency, SwiftUI/UIKit interop, modularization). - Experience working in very large codebases with many contributors — you know how to ship safely, instrument well, and keep build times sane. - Strong product sense. You can tell the difference between an interaction that's correct and one that feels right, and you fight for the latter. - Excellent judgment under ambiguity, and a bias toward shipping over speculating. Nice to have: - Cross-platform development with C++ and low-level hardware APIs. - Experience with rendering, graphics, or game-engine-adjacent systems. - Contributions to open source, conference talks, or technical writing in the iOS community. - Experience integrating on-device or server-side generative AI into consumer products. 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 $295,250 - $345,040 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.
Principal Software Engineer - Content Platform
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 Creator Content Platform Team provides a secure, scalable, and extensible foundation for ingestion, processing, storing, managing, and serving user content. As a Principal Software Engineer (Backend, Distributed Systems), you will design and build backend services to help game creators reach the broadest audience possible. You will help us build & scale large distributed systems, data processing and analysis pipelines, an access control system, Open Cloud APIs all of which are central for all content created in Roblox. \ You Will: - Solve on a variety of unique technical challenges - Have the independence, opportunity and the end-to-end responsibility to design, build, test and deploy services within the Roblox ecosystem - Guide the future technical direction of the team and have impact on engineering - Be a technical bar-raiser for high code quality, architectural designs, and long-term approaches - Mentor and develop fellow engineers on the team - Design systems and services that are scalable and resilient - Collaborate with passionate, Engineers, Product Managers and other Roblox team members, cross-functionally You have: - Experience: You have 13+ years of experience working on backend, distributed systems that are scalable and reliable. You have experience in architecting, designing and leading implementation of mission critical applications at scale. - Knowledge: You are proficient in one or more programming languages (C#, Go, Java, C++, Python or similar programming language). You have a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science or related engineering field, Masters is a plus. - Creativity: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems and envisioning ways to improve and grow the capabilities of the system. You have a vision for what can make a product great. - Team-oriented mindset: You can work well as part of a team and know how to collaborate with all participants to develop the best solutions. You are happy to share your knowledge with everyone on the team. 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 $345,040 - $399,420 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.
Critical Harms Investigations & Incident Management Specialist
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. Roblox’s Safety Operations team is dedicated to protecting our users from individuals who want to harm others. The Critical Harms Intelligence, Investigations, and Operations (CHIIOPS) team applies subject matter expertise to our highest-level risks, and works with cross-functional partners to identify and mitigate these actors. As part of our commitment to safety, we are looking for a specialist with an investigator’s mindset, skills, and curiosity to investigate and respond to some of our highest-risk escalations. You will work with teams and leaders across the company to quickly and professionally respond to urgent requests for support, and balance competing priorities to get the job done. You will share findings with intel analysts to support behavioral analysis development to help identify risks across the platform. You will report to the Critical Harms, Intelligence, Investigations, and Operations Senior Manager. Please Note: This role may review graphic, controversial, and sometimes offensive content in line with Roblox’s content moderation practices. You Will: Incident Investigation and Triage - Lead, own, and drive rapid investigations into critical and complex incidents, including but not limited to threats against child safety, violent extremism, and other high-severity harms. - Utilize internal tools, data analysis, and open-source intelligence (OSINT) techniques to gather evidence, establish facts, and determine the root cause of incidents. - Serve as the subject matter expert and primary point of contact for all critical incidents, independently managing communication with executive leadership and cross-functional partners. - Ensure all investigations are documented thoroughly, accurately, and completed in a timely manner. Emergency Response and Coordination - Operate within a 24/7 on-call rotation to respond immediately to high-risk and/or time-sensitive incidents that pose significant risk to users, the platform, or the company. - Lead and direct incident response efforts, orchestrating cross-functional teams to ensure a unified and effective investigation and remediation. - Strategically draft and deliver real-time, high-stakes communications and strategic recommendations to executive leadership regarding incident status, impact assessment, and mitigation efforts. - Architect, own, and continuously iterate on robust incident response playbooks and protocols for various critical harms scenarios. - Drive detailed post-mortem reviews (Root Cause Analysis), identifying and implementing structural improvements to policy, process, and technology. You Have: - A Bachelor's Degree is required, or, in lieu of a degree, a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in investigations, incident management, and/or policy enforcement on a social platform. - Extensive experience (5+ years) managing high-pressure, sensitive, and complex investigations with significant independence and minimal supervision. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical and sensitive issues clearly to executive audiences and non-technical partners. - Demonstrated ability to use data analysis, internal dashboards, and investigation tools to support fact-finding. - Experience mentoring junior investigators and guiding complex casework. - Familiarity with online safety issues to include exposure to high-severity risk content is preferred. - Strong project management skills, strong prioritization acumen, and the ability to build processes from the ground up. 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 $117,540 - $144,620 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.
Principal Engineer, Studio Builder Tools
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 Principal Engineer in the Builder Tools team, you’ll work on interactive, developer-facing tools and reusable tooling frameworks for Roblox Studio, a collaborative IDE for making Roblox games. The Builder Tools team is in charge of Roblox Studio’s content making features, from 3D draggers to world-class character animation tools, tooling for making terrain for huge worlds, in-game UI authoring tools, and many more. In this role, you will have a direct impact on how streamlined and enjoyable making games on Roblox is for hundreds of thousands developers worldwide! You will: - Work on various interactive tools for Roblox game developers - Define architecture and implement reusable tooling frameworks - Work with UX designers and Product Manager to come up with most optimal and ergonomic solutions - Design and execute on the architecture and technical direction that will be the future of our application - Own and deliver complex technical projects from the planning stage through execution - Work cross functionally, across teams and technology platforms - Mentor team members helping them improve their professional skills and expertise - Design, develop, and implement technological practices, patterns, and strategies - Participate in building the world's best professional application for massively multiplayer game development You have: - 8+ years in developing and deploying top of the line user-facing applications - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a similar technical field (or related work experience) - 3+ years of experience with C++ or another lower-level language - A passion for end-user experience - Experience with UI frameworks like React, Cocoa, WPF, or others is a plus - Experience in making developer-, engineer- or artist-facing tools, such as game development tooling, CADs, 3D editors, design tools is a big plus. 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 $345,040 - $399,420 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.
Senior Security Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security
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 Security Software Engineer for Infrastructure Security you will be a part of the Information Security organization and report to the Senior Manager of Infrastructure Security. You will help shape the future of Platform Security at Roblox. We work closely with Production IAM, Network Security, and Cloud Security at Roblox. You Will: - Identify security gaps and threats in our cloud and on premise infrastructure, partnering with Governance Risk and Compliance teams to create standards and policies along the way. This will help Roblox meet regulatory and compliance requirements. - Harden our infrastructure by introducing secure by default configurations, designs and guardrails for all developers at Roblox. - Own and drive solutions that enable Roblox engineers to design, build, and use infrastructure securely at scale. - Work closely with other InfoSec teams (AppSec, D&R, GRC, CorpSec, CloudSec, NetSec) and partner with engineering teams across Roblox, specifically the Infrastructure organization, to ensure the secure outcomes of security and product driven initiatives. You Have: - 5+ years of experience writing code and/or relevant technical experience. - Experience with automation, IaC, system hardening, container security concepts, cloud security policy and observability. - Deep knowledge of Linux systems, Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS/RKS), and on premise and cloud based risk and supporting security infrastructure. - Familiarity with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Data Encryption (at-rest and in-transit), platform security best practices, Secrets Management, and orchestration at scale with systems such as Chef, Nomad, and ECS. - Understanding of network security, application security concepts, and information security industry best practices. You Are: - Collaborative: You love working with your direct team and cross-functional partners. - Thoughtful of build vs. buy decisions: You can build solutions, but you also review what tools are available and are comfortable working with Third Party vendors. - Comfortable with ambiguity: You can gather data and make informed decisions when there is no clear answer. 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 $269,170 - $326,060 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.
Senior Analyst, AI Workflows & Automation
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 an AI Workflow Specialist on the Trust & Safety Operations team, you will be the bridge between product , operations , and other relevant teams. You will be required to create workflows , using AI to design, prototype, and scale high‑impact automations. You will translate operational pain points into well‑designed AI workflows, partner closely with product and engineering, and build the evaluation frameworks that ensure these automations are safe, reliable, and measurable. You Will: - Partner with the Subject matter experts across the Support Ops and Shared service teams to understand the current gap and brainstorm on the desired solution. - Map and document existing workflows to identify high‑leverage automation opportunities and clearly define “current vs. future state.” - Design AI‑augmented workflows that combine LLM agents, existing rules engines, and human review to improve speed, quality, and consistency - Prototype and iterate AI solutions using internal and external (accepted) tooling (e.g., Claude and other LLMs, internal agentic/AI workflow platforms, and Builder AI code intelligence) to turn workflow designs into working agents or automations. - Define success metrics and evaluation plans (e.g., automation rate, handle time reduction, error/rollback rate, reviewer satisfaction) and build or integrate with eval pipelines to measure agent performance over time. - Partner with product, engineering, and operations to prioritize use cases, scope requirements, and align AI workflows with product roadmaps and control/compliance expectations. - Operationalize launches : contribute to playbooks, runbooks, and training so that operations teams can use AI agents confidently and understand when and how to intervene or escalate. - Continuously improve workflows by monitoring performance, surfacing insights, and iterating on prompts, policies, routing, and UX to keep systems robust as volumes, abuse patterns, and regulations evolve. - Champion safe and secure AI usage , partnering with security and compliance stakeholders to ensure AI workflows respect data handling, access controls, and regulatory constraints, especially as AI workloads increase. You Have: - 5+ years of experience in technical operations, data science/analytics, or product/engineering roles, with at least 2+ years working directly with workflow automation , rules engines , or tooling for operations teams . - Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, or maintaining complex business workflows - Strong technical fluency : comfortable reading and writing simple scripts or code (Python or similar), working with APIs, and collaborating closely with engineers to ship workflow changes and integrations. - Hands‑on experience with LLM‑based tools (e.g., Claude) or other AI platforms, including prompt design, evaluation, and iteration to improve quality and reliability. - Strong analytical skills , with experience defining metrics, building dashboards or analyses, and using data to make prioritization and design decisions. - Excellent cross‑functional communication skills; able to translate between operations, product, engineering, and finance, and to write clear specs, runbooks, and status updates. Good To Have: - Experience in Trust & Safety, compliance, or risk‑sensitive workflows (e.g., safety queues, fraud, government or law enforcement requests, regulatory reporting). - Prior work evaluating AI agents or automation quality (e.g., building eval suites, gold‑label sets, or reviewer workflows to monitor agent decisions). 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.
Senior Software Engineer - Engine Systems
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 the Engine Systems team, you will help build the core diagnostic and reliability frameworks that power Roblox’s engine. In this role, you will design and build the systems that allow us to monitor, analyze, and improve the Roblox experience across millions of concurrent users. You will contribute to platform-level systems that help Roblox understand hangs, crashes, performance regressions, and session health across our supported clients. This work requires navigating platform-specific limitations across vendors such as Apple, Microsoft, Google, Sony, and others, while building reliable systems that help engineering teams safely ship changes to Roblox at global scale. You Will - Build and maintain systems that report detailed stability, reliability, and performance signals across Roblox clients. - Write well-instrumented systems-level code across supported devices, including mobile, desktop, and major console platforms. - Ensure internal engineers have the tools and signals they need to detect, understand, and resolve disruptions to the user experience. - Design highly reliable systems that must operate reliably at Roblox’s massive scale, where even small regressions can have significant impact. You Have - 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong ownership of complex technical systems. - Strong proficiency in native C++ or Objective C code - Familiarity with at least one non-desktop platform (e.g. mobile or console) - Comfort debugging difficult technical problems across first-party, operating system, and tooling boundaries. - A collaborative approach to engineering, with strong communication skills and a focus on team outcomes. Additional Considerations - Experience building observability systems, crash reporting, hang detection, application performance monitoring, or related diagnostic tooling. - Experience working cross-functionally with Data Science, Infra, and similar stakeholders to guide technical decisions. - Multi-platform expertise involving several mobile or console ecosystems. - Interest in mentoring other engineers and raising the engineering quality of the broader team. - Experience with game engines, large client applications, or performance-critical runtime systems. 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 $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.
Senior Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Ads
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. With Roblox Ads business growing at a rapid rate, we are building large scale ads machine learning infrastructure to deliver effective performance ads to our users, and more business values to our advertisers. As a Senior Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer in our Ads ML Infra team, you’ll build scalable, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure that powers ML systems across our organization. You’ll operate at the scales of hundreds of billions of engagements, and redefine how we deliver performance ads to hundreds of millions of users. You Will: - Lead the technical strategy and implementation of scalable ML infrastructure including model training, data pipelines, feature engineering and model inference. - Shape the team’s technical vision by helping define the roadmap, establishing foundational architecture, and driving key execution milestones. - Mentor and support junior engineers, setting strong technical standards and fostering a culture of collaboration and learning. - Work closely with data scientists, ML engineers, platform teams, and product stakeholders to design, implement, and operate robust ML platforms that accelerate model development and deployment. - Own the architecture, scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of ML infrastructure (e.g., training, serving, feature). - Dig into performance bottlenecks all along the ML stack, spanning from model optimizations to infrastructure optimizations. - Ensure high operational excellence in deployed ML infrastructure (monitoring, alerting, incident response). - Stay abreast of industry trends in machine learning and infrastructure to ensure the adoption of leading-edge technologies and practices. You Have: - 5+ years of experience and a proven track record of designing, building, and deploying large-scale machine learning systems in production environments. - Impact driven mindset: prioritizing product impact, reliability, and measurable success over code volume or complexity. - Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to problem solving. - BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. 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 $242,100 - $293,800 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.
Editor
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 Editor, you will play a pivotal role in shaping motion content across brand, marketing, social channels and more. You are a true hybrid maker—capable of developing polished brand films and product UI animations one day, and high-energy, platform-native social content the next. You understand that great motion design isn’t just about moving parts, but about storytelling, systems thinking, and capturing attention in a crowded digital landscape. You combine elevated design craft with strong editorial instincts, moving effortlessly between long-form brand storytelling and the fast-paced rhythm of social. You Will: - Concept, edit, and animate high-impact motion assets for marketing campaigns, product trailers, and brand storytelling. - Own the creation of platform-native content (TikTok, IG, YT, LinkedIn), optimizing for vertical, square, and mobile-first formats while staying ahead of cultural trends. - Contribute to our motion design system by defining guidelines, reusable components, and graphic templates that ensure brand consistency across both marketing and in-product UI animations. - Partner with Art Directors, Product Designers, and Marketers to translate brand guidelines into flexible executions that feel current and culturally relevant. - Apply advanced motion graphics, typography, and exceptional craft to enhance clarity. Maintain organized workflows to support both polished, long-lead projects and high-volume, fast-turn social needs. You Have: - 4+ years of professional motion design experience, with a portfolio showcasing a mix of brand storytelling, social media content, and UI/product animation. - Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (After Effects, Premiere, Illustrator, Photoshop) and design tools like Figma. Familiarity with 3D tools (Cinema 4D or Blender) is a major plus. - Deep understanding of platform-specific behaviors, "in-feed" performance, and how to capture attention within the first 1.5 seconds. - A rock-solid grasp of timing, easing, hierarchy, typography, and composition. - A flexible, iterative approach to work, comfortable moving between high-fidelity craftsmanship and "lo-fi" social trends in a fast-paced environment. 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 $116,470 - $146,720 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.
Director of Public Policy, India & South Asia
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. WHY ROBLOX? Roblox is ushering in the next generation of entertainment, allowing people to imagine, create, and play together in immersive, user-generated worlds. We’re the one and only fastest-growing entertainment platform that lets anyone teach themselves how to code, publish, and monetize any experience imaginable—across any device—reaching millions of players across the globe. As a Public Policy Director for India & South Asia, you will be playing a key role in our engagement with Indian policymakers. The role will bolster our local strategy, including our participation in trade groups, work with NGOs, regulatory commitments and compliance, and proactive work to scale our business to best position Roblox for the future. You will be responsible for understanding our Community Rules and other policies and helping to develop and refine specific principles and policies. The ideal candidate will be able to work independently and remotely from HQ, as well as collaboratively with all internal stakeholders. You’re comfortable identifying policy issues, solving those issues, and bringing improved products to our players and creators. You believe in the value of in person, high touch meetings with policymakers. You should be passionate about our mission, the gaming ecosystem, the community we serve, and the policy issues we need to address. Above all else, you appreciate that relationships often drive outcomes and work excellently and collaboratively with others. You Will: - Contribute to our comprehensive Public Policy strategy for India & South Asia and implement related programs - Identify, monitor, and analyze policy issues affecting Roblox in India & South Asia - Advise Roblox internal stakeholders on public policy matters as inputs to the development of our products and business operations - Articulate our public policy positions in briefing papers and consultation responses - Communicate with external stakeholders on behalf of Roblox on public policy topics - Communicate the public policies to all internal stakeholders at the company. Provide governance for and stakeholder updates on product policies - Ensure that Roblox stays in compliance with our product policies - Oversee and influence change necessary to achieve policy compliance objectives and foster a culture of compliance across the organization. - Work with external stakeholders, to understand and account for the views of external stakeholders about our product policies You Have: - A Bachelor's degree in Policy, Law, Media, Science, Engineering, Technology, or related field of study or equivalent. - 10-15 years of experience as a Public Policy Leader at an internet, e-commerce, social, or gaming company - Experience working with policymakers, child safety groups and international organizations - Seamlessly with cross-functional teams consisting of business operations, financial and legal stakeholders - Experience with project/program management and able to keep multiple concurrent deliverables moving forward on schedule You Are: - Passionate about public policy issues, domestic and international - A dynamic and engaging presenter with stellar written and oral delivery across multiple platforms, live and virtual - Willing to be on the road when necessary for outreach meetings and programs - An excellent written and oral communicator - Detail-oriented, with strong communication, planning and organizational skills - Collaborative, with strong relationship building skills to get things done in partnership with other groups - Self-directed, with the ability to define your own work and processes - Low drama, and treat everyone like a client regardless of level 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.
Principal Product Manager, Engineering Acceleration
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 Principal Product Manager in Engineering Acceleration , you will define the vision and strategy for how software engineers work at Roblox. Your mission is to ensure that Roblox engineers spend more time building the metaverse and less time managing infrastructure complexity in your areas of responsibility. The Engineering Acceleration portfolio includes Source Control, Testing, Secure Software Supply Chain Management, Continuous Deployment, and Observability among many others. In this role, you will primarily own the developer experience for Continuous Deployment, Testing , and Observability , while remaining adaptable as organizational priorities evolve. AI has been transforming how we approach these systems. We’re already leveraging AI to test our software and to identify and diagnose production incidents. The successful candidate here will bring deep expertise not only in the software development lifecycle, but crucially also on the rapidly evolving landscape of AI tooling. This is a rare opportunity for an infrastructure product leader to drive meaningful impact at scale across a very large engineering organization. You Will: - Define and drive the long-term vision and strategy for Testing, Continuous Deployment, and Observability platforms - Own and improve the productivity and satisfaction of Roblox’s engineering community across these domains - Leverage AI to create a new generation of tools that super power our engineers - Elevate our internal platform to a world-class developer experience that engineers rely on and enjoy using every day - Partner closely with Engineering, Design, Security, and Reliability leaders to align priorities and execution - Unify and modernize tooling to support a wide range of workloads, ensuring broad adoption and measurable impact You Have: - 10+ years of product management experience, including at least 5 years delivering infrastructure, developer, or operations tools - Deep familiarity with modern solutions, platforms and infrastructure domains, including testing, observability, and CI/CD systems, along with the curiosity to identify and shape the next generation of developer tooling - Expertise in the frontiers of AI developer tools (and their limitations) - Strong technical foundation (Computer Science degree or equivalent experience preferred) - Proven ability to define multi-year product strategy and rally large, cross-functional teams around a shared vision - Comfort operating in ambiguity, making high-stakes decisions with incomplete information, and driving initiatives from concept through launch - Exceptional written and verbal communication skills 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 $280,540 - $330,950 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.
Product Support Incident Specialist
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 Trust and Safety Operations team is focused (ok, maybe obsessed) on scaling Roblox’s Operations organization and transforming our customer experience through our multi-year vision and strategy execution. You will be reporting to the Trust & Safety India Operations Manager. The team provides support to Roblox’s global players, developers, and advertisers. As a Product Support Specialist on our Safety Ops Team, you’ll be focused on Escalations, Product Reliability, Process Improvement and Design along with playing a critical role in managing and resolving escalations and high-impact incidents affecting our Roblox users and platform. You will coordinate across multiple teams to ensure rapid response to minimize the impact on customers and business operations, identifying trends, enhancing support processes, improving agent efficiency, and reducing operational costs while maintaining high reliability and service quality. Additionally, you will serve as a product expert working closely with the PSM team, providing detailed synthesis of new and existing issues our users experience to prioritize and enable engineering teams to improve the platform. You Will: - Coordinate and lead incident response activities for critical and high-severity issues, assemble and manage incident response teams, including representatives from Engineering, Product, and other relevant teams along with assessing incident impact and determining severity levels. - Take ownership of technical escalations and high-priority incidents related to Roblox Trust & Safety Global Scaled Operations, customers, internal escalations, and high priority BPO agent escalations. - Proactively identify opportunities to improve support processes, enhance agent efficiency, reduce operating costs, and improve overall customer satisfaction. - Collaborate with Knowledge Management and Training teams to develop and maintain documentation, training materials, and best practices based on issue trends and resolutions. - Work with Quality Assurance teams to ensure process adherence, identify areas for improvement in support workflows, and implement quality control measures. - Contribute to the successful launch of new support streams and initiatives by providing subject matter expertise and process guidance. You Have: - 3+ years of experience in a technical support, product support, or related role. Experience in leveraging SQL or Python to problem solve and dashboard can be a plus. - Strong understanding of customer support principles, methodologies, and best practices. - Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues. - Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to convey technical information clearly and concisely to diverse audiences. - Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, build relationships, and influence stakeholders. - Experience with data analysis, reporting, and identifying trends to drive process improvements. - Familiarity with support ticketing systems, CRM tools, and other relevant support technologies. - Must be willing to participate in on-call support for incident management issues. You Are: - Innovative: You proactively identify emerging risks and execute on out of the box ideas to achieve goals. - Analytical: Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and measure the problems and the solutions. - Proactive Problem Solver : You anticipate potential problems and take proactive and decisive action to solve them. - Team-oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger. - Data-Driven : Uses data to identify trends, measure results, and drive decision-making 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.
Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Alt Defense
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. WHY SAFETY? At Roblox, we strive to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and the Safety organization’s mission is to become the leader in civil immersive online communities. We systematically detect, remove, and prevent problematic accounts, content and behavior, and we make Roblox accounts secure and free from compromise. We cover a broad area of the tech spectrum, including machine learning, classifiers for 3D models, experimentation, automation, detection workflows, and AI-powered text filters. Aligned and partnering with product teams, we use this toolbelt to discover new opportunities, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build safety products, and measure the impact on our community of users and developers. In doing so, we keep Roblox safe, civil, and inclusive, and we foster positive relationships between people around the world. WHY ALT DEFENSE? Safety and Civility is Roblox’s #1 priority. The Alt Defense pod is at the front lines of this mission, tasked with solving one of the most difficult adversarial problems on the platform: Alternate Account Detection and Prevention. When bad actors are removed from Roblox, they often attempt to return immediately with new identities. Our goal is to stop them in their tracks. As the Technical Lead for this pod, you will architect and build an industry-leading detection system that operates at a massive scale—processing billions of accounts and identifying recidivism within minutes. You will also be supporting additional use cases for alt detection across the company. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager of the Account Identity Team. You will: - Lead the technical vision for alternate account detection platform, moving from reactive measures to proactive, near real-time prevention. - Architect high-scale ML systems using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and advanced clustering techniques to map relationships across billions of entities. - Solve complex ground truth and training data challenges for adversarial usecases - Build for latency and scale, ensuring that detection happens within minutes of a bad actor’s attempt to rejoin the platform. - Develop innovative adversarial approaches to stay ahead of sophisticated actors who use evolving techniques to mask their identity. - Drive the ML roadmap, identifying opportunities to leverage big data and behavioral signals to improve precision and recall in a high-stakes environment. - Mentor and up-level a pod of high-performing ML and software engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and rapid iteration. You have: - MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field. - 10+ years of industry experience in Applied ML, with a significant focus on anti-abuse, fraud, integrity, or identity. - Expertise in Graph Learning: Deep experience with Large-scale GNNs (GraphSAGE, PGB, etc.) and unsupervised/semi-supervised clustering at the scale of billions of nodes. - Proven track record of leading complex technical projects from conception to production-level deployment. - Experience with high-throughput systems: You understand the nuances of deploying ML models in low-latency environments where "time-to-detect" is a critical KPI. - Adversarial mindset: You can think like a bad actor to anticipate how they will circumvent detection and build robust defenses against it. You are: - Resourceful: You're adaptable in any situation and can always find a path forward in the face of evolving threats. - Analytical: Excited to investigate large, ambiguous datasets to find the "signal in the noise" of billions of accounts. - User Oriented: You understand that safety measures must be balanced with a seamless experience for our legitimate community members. - Team Oriented: You are a sought-after mentor who lifts up your peers and builds a collaborative, high-performance environment. - Mission Oriented: You are laser-focused on keeping Roblox safe and are willing to take bold, strategic risks to achieve a billion-user scale safely. 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 $295,250 - $345,040 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.
Senior Compliance Manager, Risk Intelligence
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. Roblox is looking for a Compliance Senior Manager who can lead the design, execution, and scaling of enterprise-grade regulatory risk assessment programs. This leader will be responsible for conducting and overseeing complex, regulatory-mandated risk assessments, particularly in highly regulated domains such as online safety. The ideal candidate brings deep experience performing regulatory-facing risk assessments at large technology platforms, along with strong program-building and stakeholder influencing capabilities. This individual will work closely with senior leadership and internal teams to cultivate a strong culture of compliance and risk awareness. This is a full-time, hybrid position reporting to the Head of Compliance. You Will: - Lead end-to-end execution of regulatory-required risk assessments - Develop and maintain standardized risk assessment frameworks, methodologies, scoring models, and documentation standards aligned to global regulatory expectations - Partner with Product, Engineering, Trust & Safety, Legal, Civility, Policy, Security, and Data teams to gather required inputs and validate risk findings - Translate regulatory requirements into control expectations, mitigation roadmaps, and measurable risk-reduction actions, ensuring alignment with the centralized controls library - Support enterprise governance forums by presenting key risk themes, emerging regulatory exposures, and mitigation progress - Prepare regulator-ready documentation, evidence packages, and defensible narratives supporting company compliance positions - Continuously refine risk assessment tooling, workflows, and automation to scale across multiple product surfaces and jurisdictions - Build scalable processes that enable multiple concurrent regulatory assessments globally, coordinating execution timelines with the broader GRC program roadmap You Have: - 8+ years of experience in governance, risk, and compliance roles in a global technology company - 3+ years working in a highly regulated domain such as integrity, online safety, privacy, or security - Demonstrated experience conducting regulator-mandated risk assessments across several domains, including the UK Online Safety Act, Digital Services Act, and EU General Data PRotection Regulation - Strong understanding of global regulatory frameworks impacting digital platforms (e.g., online safety, privacy, platform integrity, AI governance, payments compliance) - Proven ability to drive complex cross-functional initiatives involving product and engineering teams - Experience building or scaling structured risk assessment methodologies, templates, and governance processes - Bachelor's degree or higher in law, finance, or a related field or equivalent experience - Strong interpersonal and analytical skills for communicating sophisticated concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences - Experience designing and operationalizing scalable and efficient compliance workflows - Ability to navigate ambiguity and lead multiple projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment - Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management abilities - Relevant certification (e.g., CRMP, CISA) is helpful 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 $200,840 - $246,040 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.
Compliance Senior Manager, Assurance
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. Roblox is looking for a Compliance Senior Manager who can build and lead the company’s compliance control testing capability across Online Safety and Privacy programs. This role will be responsible for designing and operating scalable control-testing frameworks that assess both design effectiveness and operating effectiveness for regulatory and policy-driven controls. The ideal candidate has significant experience building or leading controls assurance or second-line testing programs with major technology platforms and possesses strong expertise in translating regulatory requirements into measurable testing procedures, sampling strategies, and defensible assurance outputs. This individual will work closely with senior leadership and internal teams to cultivate a strong culture of compliance and risk awareness. This is a full-time, hybrid position reporting to the Head of Compliance. You Will: - Lead the development and execution of the enterprise Compliance Assurance and Controls Testing Program focused on online safety, privacy, and regulatory compliance controls. - Design scalable methodologies for design effectiveness testing and operating effectiveness testing, including standardized testing scripts, sampling models, and evidence requirements. - Establish annual and risk-based controls testing plans, aligned to regulatory obligations, platform risk assessments, and internal governance priorities. - Operate as a TPM leader coordinating complex cross-functional testing initiatives involving Product, Engineering, Trust & Safety, Privacy, Legal, and Security teams. - Drive structured testing execution timelines, issue tracking, remediation workflows, and progress reporting across multiple concurrent regulatory programs. - Build dashboards and reporting mechanisms that provide executive-level visibility into control performance, testing outcomes, and remediation health. - Evaluate testing results to identify control gaps, systemic weaknesses, and emerging regulatory risks partnering with internal stakeholders to update the central controls library accordingly. - Partner with control owners to develop corrective action plans, track remediation milestones, and validate closure through retesting. - Produce defensible testing documentation and assurance reports suitable for regulators, internal audit, and executive governance forums. - Establish testing standards, documentation frameworks, and tooling that enable consistent testing across multiple jurisdictions and regulatory regimes. - Continuously refine testing methodologies based on regulatory expectations, industry practices, and platform risk evolution. You Have: - 8+ years of experience in compliance assurance, controls testing, internal audit, risk assurance, or second-line compliance functions within large technology companies or highly regulated environments. - Demonstrated experience conducting controls design effectiveness and operating effectiveness testing, including development of testing procedures, sampling methodologies, and evidence validation. - Experience testing online safety, trust & safety, privacy, or platform governance controls in digital platform environments and in preparing regulator-facing or audit-facing assurance documentation. - Strong program management experience coordinating cross-functional initiatives involving product and engineering teams. - Proven ability to translate regulatory or policy requirements into measurable control validation frameworks. - Bachelor's degree or higher in law, finance, or a related field or equivalent experience - Strong interpersonal and analytical skills for communicating sophisticated concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. - Ability to navigate ambiguity and lead multiple projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. - Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management abilities. - Relevant certification (e.g., CRMP, CISA), or similar assurance credentials. 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 $210,930 - $251,330 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.
Principal AI/ML Engineer, Reliability
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. Why Reliability? Roblox serves over 100 million people every day across a platform that is constantly evolving — and behind every experience is infrastructure that has to work, every time, at massive scale. The Reliability team at Roblox operates at the depth and breadth of the Roblox stack. Availability of the platform is a key company goal. We are hiring our first Principal Machine Learning engineer within our team. As a Principal Machine Learning Engineer within Reliability, you will set the 3-5 year technical strategy and architectural blueprint for how machine learning systems/practices can be leveraged to improve the reliability of the overall Roblox platform. You will own the architectural and execution roadmap of leveraging massive data across - logs, traces, metrics, production changes, to proactively detect issues before they become real problems (MTTD) and/or reduce time to resolve incidents (MTTR). You will have the opportunity to cross functionally collaborate with other similar teams at Roblox to define best practices and software. You will: - Define the strategy of leveraging Machine Learning Engineering to improve Production Systems Reliability at Roblox. - Improve realtime anomaly detection capabilities by leveraging various state of the art ML techniques, thereby directly contributing to improving Mean Time to Detect Production issues. - Develop methods to build pipelines to consume various streams of data (metrics, logs, traces, change management systems etc.). - Build a reasoning layer that interacts with the streams of data to find possible root causes of problems happening in production. - Build time-series models to predict capacity exhaustion and seasonal traffic spikes to drive automated scaling You have: - Beyond off the shelf: We are looking for an expert who has knowledge of various modeling techniques, ability to go deep and fine tune models to fit our use cases. - Ability to propose and architect the infrastructure that allows us to implement systems that learn from user and/or automated feedback. - Good distributed systems fundamentals and understanding of large scale high throughput systems You are: - Comfortable with Ambiguity : You thrive in undefined or open-ended problem spaces, providing structure, clarity, and decisive direction to your teams. - A Pragmatic Builder : You are scrappy and impact-oriented. You view undefined data and messy systems as opportunities to build structure rather than blockers to progress. - An Inspiring Leade r: Passionate about developing the next generation of technical leaders, managers, and engineers. - An Executive Communicator: Highly effective at communicating complex technical concepts to both engineering teams and non-technical executive leadership. - Data & System Oriented: You understand that robust data and systems are the foundation of any production application, and you design infrastructure for scale, correctness, and reliability. - Curious & Creative : You enjoy tackling hard problems, exploring new technologies, and driving continuous improvements in both systems and workflows. 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 $295,250 - $345,040 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.
Senior Engineering Manager, AI Platform
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 AI Platform team is building the unified platform that enables machine learning at a massive scale across all products and services. As a Senior Engineering Manager for the AI Platform, Data team, you will lead the development of the high-leverage data platform used by AI engineers, machine learning scientists, and product developers. You will be responsible for defining the long-term vision, strategy, and execution for the data foundation that powers the next generation of AI-driven products. This includes work on cutting-edge technologies like vector databases and knowledge graphs to enhance our data capabilities for advanced AI use cases. You Will: - Lead and grow a high-performing team of software engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and engineering excellence. - Define the roadmap, strategy, and execution plan for the GenAI Platform which handles LLM and agent infrastructure. - Collaborate with AI engineering, machine learning science, and product teams to understand their data needs and deliver platform capabilities that accelerate development and deployment of traditional AI and Generative models. - Drive architectural decisions and set technical standards for reliability, scalability, and performance - Oversee the end-to-end development life cycle, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality, robust data solutions. - Mentor and coach team members, providing continuous feedback and career development guidance. - Manage cross-functional projects and communicate progress, risks, and challenges to leadership and stakeholders. You Are: - A seasoned engineering leader with 5+ years of management experience and 8+ years of experience building large-scale, high-performance data platforms, machine learning infrastructure, or distributed systems. - Experienced in hiring, managing, and mentoring senior software engineers and technical leaders. - Deeply knowledgeable about data technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Flink, Kafka, distributed databases, data warehousing) and best practices for large-scale data processing and storage. - Skilled at driving technical strategy and roadmap planning in ambiguous and fast-paced environments. - Able to establish strong, collaborative relationships with cross-functional partners and senior leadership. - Passionate about fostering a positive, inclusive, and high-energy engineering culture. - Knowledgeable in the machine learning life cycle (MLOps) and the data requirements for training, serving, and monitoring models. - A strong communicator, both written and verbal, capable of articulating complex technical concepts to a diverse audience. Preferred Qualifications - A BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field. - Experience with cloud-based data solutions (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure). - Experience with real-time data processing and stream computing technologies. 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 $345,040 - $399,420 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.
Human Evaluator, Studio (Contract)
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. Role Overview We are searching for a self-motivated individual who is passionate about Roblox and thrives in detail. You will be responsible for classifying content based on a specific set of guidelines to help us improve Roblox systems. As a Human Evaluator you will have the opportunity to provide us direct feedback on the performance of various products across the company, but primarily for features within the studio and creator store. You will: - Classify content based on a set of instructions; Content classification includes the review and classification of text, image, video, scripts, and audio - Track and document insights and trends related to annotation projects - Test out new features within studio and provide detailed feedback - Become an expert in a variety of topics to enable more accurate evaluations - Dedicate between 25-29 hours per week with a work schedule from Monday to Friday You have: - At least 1+ years of experience developing on Roblox or other creation platforms. - Solid knowledge of the technical aspects of Roblox Studio. - Proficiency with Lua - Strong verbal and written communication skills - Demonstrated patience for repetitive tasks and attention to detail - Effective time management skills - In-depth understanding of Roblox and the Roblox community. - Fluency in a second language, such as: Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian - Prior experience with content moderation or data annotation. - A deep passion for gaming trends and the Roblox community ecosystem. Please note - Benefits below only apply to full time employees in the US. - This role is fully remote 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 hourly rate could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Please note that not all benefits on this page are applicable to this hourly position. Hourly Pay Range $23.20 - $23.20 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.
Principal Data Scientist - Safety
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. WHY DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS? The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency and acumen of making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product verticals, we use this extensive tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products and measure impact on our community of players and developers. WHY CONTENT SAFETY? Content safety and moderation are paramount to maintaining a positive, engaging, and trustworthy platform experience for our global community. In this role, you will apply your expertise in data science, statistics, and causal inference to strategically define, measure, and improve the detection and mitigation of harmful user-generated content and violative on-platform behaviors. Your focus will be on asset-based content across the platform - including games, avatars, and emerging in-game behaviors - by establishing reliable ground truth datasets and developing robust prevalence measurement methodologies. You will collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Legal, Policy, and Compliance teams, acting as the quantitative expert who guides our defensive strategy against evolving safety threats and ensures accountability and scalable solutions. This is a critical opportunity to build innovative detection systems, define what we measure, and prove the impact of our safety efforts. You Will: - Establish and monitor robust prevalence measurement methodologies to accurately quantify the overall level of harmful content and behavior on the platform, providing the authoritative source of truth for organizational safety goals. - Develop and validate comprehensive ground truth datasets for harmful UGC and violative on-platform behaviors, ensuring high quality and alignment with the latest platform policies. - Deepen our understanding of violations by conducting exploratory analysis on current and emerging threat landscapes, providing data-backed recommendations on where Product and Engineering should strategically invest detection and moderation resources. - Design, implement, and analyze sophisticated experiments for new moderation and safety enforcement features, communicating results to our primary partners in Product and Engineering to guide development, while also collaborating closely with Policy, Compliance, and Legal teams for full strategic alignment. - Leverage advanced causal inference methodologies to accurately measure the effectiveness and potential systemic impacts of various safety initiatives on player experience and platform integrity. - Communicate strategic insights and present recommendations to leadership and all cross-functional partners, translating complex statistical findings on prevalence, ground truth quality, and effectiveness into actionable strategies for Product, Engineering, Policy, Compliance, and Legal. - Partner with ML and Data Engineering teams to ensure model development, reporting, and detection systems are built on statistically sound ground truth and measurement frameworks. You Have: - 10+ years of industry experience in data science, economics, analytics, or machine learning engineering - 7+ years of experience using scripting languages (Python, R), and big data query/processing languages and tools such as SQL, Hive, Spark, and Airflow - Knowledge of ML and Deep Learning either via formal training or industry experience - Ability to apply creative first-principles reasoning to solve ambiguous problems - Experience developing large-scale safety or moderation systems as well as experience with content platforms, specifically user-generated content - Advanced Degree and/or PhD in Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Applied Math, Economics, or other related quantitative fields 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 $321,230 - $373,680 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.
Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Ads Experience
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 working on Ads Experience, you will build a brand new advertising experience for our advertisers and publishers. This team will provide advertisers with tools to run successful ad campaigns as well as provide publishers the tools to build revenue streams from immersive ads. You will be part of the team building a brand new experience for Advertisers and Publishers that will be critical to our Immersive Ads future. You will report into our Engineer Manager. As a Senior Frontend Software Engineer, you will craft robust, extensible systems for high-traffic surfaces across our Ads products. You will drive solutions using React and other technologies, helping us to build components quickly and efficiently across devices. If you have a deep understanding of frontend technologies and a passion for refining client-server interaction, you will be right at home with us! You Will: - Design, build and ship features to improve the user journey for millions of users - Work with Engineering, Product, Design and Data partners to match developers with the right audience - Architect universal solutions for delivering features across a range of platforms and devices - Drive UX improvements through data-driven decisions and A/B testing - Collaborate with teams across Roblox to deliver a coherent user experience across the platform You Have: - 5+ years of experience in software development - 5+ years of experience with web technologies (React, Typescript, Javascript) - 5+ years of experience building and launching consumer-facing features with design, product and/or other partners - Mobile App Development or Game Development is a plus - Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, or other technical field is a plus You Are: - Passionate about users : You are sensitive to the needs of our users and strive to build the best possible experience for all; - Versatile : You are comfortable switching between languages and are excited to learn new technologies; - Analytical : You are driven to tackle large, ambiguous problems systematically and thoroughly; - Innovative : You craft creative long-term solutions and stay in touch with industry developments; - Team-oriented : You value the ideas and experiences of teammates and multi functional partners 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 $242,100 - $293,800 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.
Senior Director of Public Policy, APAC
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. Based in Singapore, as the Sr Director of Public Policy, APAC, you will be playing a key role in defining our local strategy, including how our participation in trade groups, work with NGOs, regulatory commitments and compliance, and proactive work to scale our business will help best position Roblox for the future. You will be responsible for understanding our Community Rules and other policies and helping to develop and refine specific principles and policies. The ideal candidate will be able to work independently and remotely from HQ, as well as collaboratively with all internal stakeholders. You’re comfortable identifying policy issues, solving those issues, and bringing improved products to our players and creators. You should be passionate about our mission, the community we serve, and the policy issues we need to address. Above all else, you appreciate that relationships often drive outcomes and work excellently and collaboratively with others. You Are - A Champion of the Mission: Drive the company’s vision by applying a deep passion for public policy issues, domestic and international, to serve the community and address critical policy matters. - Persuasive in your Communications: Influence key audiences as a dynamic and engaging presenter capable of stellar written and oral delivery across multiple platforms, both live and virtual. - An Operational Strategist: Ensure execution excellence through being detail-oriented, applying strong communication, planning and organizational skills to complex policy challenges. - A Relationship Builder: Secure cross-departmental success by being collaborative and leveraging strong relationship building skills to get things done in partnership with other groups. - Leading with full Agency: Accelerate regional operations by being self-directed, demonstrating the ability to define your own work and processes while working independently from HQ. You Will - Position Roblox for the future by defining a comprehensive Public Policy for APAC and implementing related programs, including local strategy and regulatory commitments. - Proactively protect the business by identifying, monitoring, and analyzing policy issues affecting Roblox in APAC. - Drive informed decision-making by advising Roblox internal stakeholders on public policy matters to serve as key inputs to the development of our products and business operations. - Clearly define and defend the company's stance by articulating public policy positions in briefing papers and consultation responses. - Manage reputation and relationships by communicating with external stakeholders on behalf of Roblox on public policy topics. - Ensure organizational cohesion by communicating the public policies to all internal stakeholders and providing governance for and stakeholder updates on product policies. - Protect the platform's integrity by ensuring that Roblox stays in compliance with our product policies. - Drive organizational integrity by overseeing and influencing change necessary to achieve policy compliance objectives and foster a culture of compliance across the organization. - Enhance product relevance by working with external stakeholders to thoroughly understand and account for the views of external stakeholders about our product policies. You Have - A strong Educational Foundation: Apply critical thinking derived from a Bachelor's degree in Policy, Law, Media, Science, Engineering, Technology, or related field of study. - Industry Expertise: Navigate complex digital landscapes leveraging 10+ years of experience as a Public Policy Leader at an internet, e-commerce, social, or gaming company. - Network Utilization: Advance safety and regulatory goals through experience working with policymakers, child safety groups and international organizations. - Cross-Functional Synergy: Unify business objectives by being able to work seamlessly with cross-functional teams consisting of business operations, financial and legal stakeholders. - Execution Excellence: Deliver complex initiatives on time by being experienced with project/program management and maintaining the ability to keep multiple concurrent deliverables moving forward on schedule. 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.
Lead/Senior Lead, Roblox Incubator Program
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. We are seeking a Lead/Senior Lead, Incubator to lead the strategy, execution, and evolution of Roblox’s Incubator program. As a leader with deep production and program experience, this person will help studios translate creative ambition into realistic plans, strong milestones, and sustainable development practices as they build Novel Games on our platform. They will act as an “Executive Producer”, establish the operational foundation for the program, drive consistency in how teams are supported and evaluated, and ensure high-quality execution across each cohort. This role sits at the intersection of game production, developer enablement, and program management. This role will work cross-functionally with internal partners to align on priorities, remove blockers, and continuously improve how the program scales and delivers impact. Success in this role means raising the bar for the entire platform by ensuring our Incubator teams ship Novel Games that define the next generation of Roblox. You will: - Own the end to end success of the Incubator program, driving planning, delivery, and continuous improvement across each cohort - Define the portfolio strategy, oversee the end-to-end selection and success of the Incubator cohort, ensuring we are betting on the right teams, the right genres, and the right concepts - Setting clear direction, priorities, and expectations to ensure strong execution across the program - Establish the operational structure for how the team runs the program, including application review, team selection, onboarding, milestone tracking, and progress reporting - Own several high impact studio relationships and help them achieve success - Partner with a cross functional group of internal experts and run developer support models - Act as the primary advocate for Incubator teams internally, synthesizing friction points into feedback that shapes the Roblox product roadmap - Create and maintain program level visibility through timelines, roadmaps, and milestone reporting, ensuring stakeholders stay aligned on progress, outcomes, and risks - Enable the team to effectively support developers from early concept through launch by building scalable systems, clear processes, and repeatable frameworks You have: - 8+ years of experience in game production, studio leadership or publishing, or program management/development operations, with a track record of leading teams through complex execution - Proven ability to lead large scale programs end to end, driving structure, accountability, and delivery across multiple stakeholders - Experience managing and mentoring high performing team members, with a focus on setting clear direction, raising quality, and enabling others to succeed - Strong production leadership experience, with the ability to guide teams in roadmapping, milestone planning, scoping, and risk management - Experience partnering cross functionally with product, engineering, design, and developer facing teams to align on goals and execution strategy - Excellent communication skills, with the ability to align teams, influence decisions, and clearly articulate priorities, tradeoffs, and the “why” behind direction - A deep passion for game development and developer success, with experience supporting teams through the full lifecycle from concept to launch - A game publisher mindset and ability to evaluate developers and projects potential You are: - Highly execution driven and outcomes oriented, with a focus on delivering results through strong planning, prioritization, and accountability - A strategic thinker who can connect day to day program execution to longer term team and organizational goals - Driven by impact, with a leadership style that balances support, accountability, and high standards - Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building structure where none exists, helping teams stay focused and aligned - Low ego, high trust, and a collaborative leader who builds strong cross functional relationships - Proactive and decisive, able to identify risks early, make informed calls, and keep teams moving forward - Detail oriented and organized, with a natural inclination toward improving how teams operate and scale 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 $221,150 - $263,360 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.
Director of Engineering - AI for Roblox Studio
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. Why Roblox Studio? Roblox Studio is the creation engine behind millions of immersive 3D experiences built by creators around the world. It serves everyone from first-time developers to large professional studios, combining a powerful real-time engine with a deeply expressive toolchain. We’re entering a major platform transition: evolving Studio into an AI-Native IDE , where intelligent systems can plan, act, validate, and iterate alongside creators. This shift is foundational to the future of creation on Roblox and must be executed with rigor, reliability, and scale. The Role We are seeking a Director of Engineering for Studio Assistant to own and drive this transformation. In this role, you are accountable for the architecture, execution, and long-term success of agentic AI systems embedded deeply into Roblox Studio. You will operate at the intersection of platform engineering, AI systems, and developer experience by setting direction not just for features, but for how AI-powered creation works at Roblox. This role carries responsibility for multi-year platform bets , organizational design, and the technical quality bar for AI inside Roblox Studio. This role will be based in our San Mateo, CA headquarters (hybrid with Tues-Thurs onsite days). You Will: - Own the technical direction and delivery of Studio’s AI-Native IDE strategy. - Build and scale agentic AI systems (planning, execution, validation, evaluation) that are production-grade and reliable. - Set and uphold the engineering quality bar for AI systems inside Studio. - Lead senior engineers and managers across multiple teams. - Drive alignment and execution across Studio, Creator, Foundation AI, Safety, and Infrastructure . - Partner with executive leadership to translate long-term AI strategy into durable roadmaps. You Have: - 15+ years of engineering experience , including ownership of large-scale, long-lived platforms. - Proven leadership through major platform or architectural transitions . - Deep experience building LLM-powered and agentic systems beyond chat-based interfaces. - Strong background in developer tools or IDE-like platforms . - Track record of delivering reliable systems in complex production environments. - Ability to operate effectively at both deep technical and executive levels . 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 $399,420 - $457,970 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.
Principal Software Engineer, Ads Platform
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. With Roblox’s daily active users growing at a record pace, we are seeking a Principal Engineer to join the Ads Platform team to help build the next generation of Ads infrastructure. Our team sits at the core of all advertising systems at Roblox, serving billions of ads to millions of daily users, while powering high-scale, high-throughput data systems that shape ads personalization, ranking, and measurement. As a Principal Software Engineer on the Ads Platform team, you will be responsible for setting technical direction and leading the team in its mission to reliably serve Roblox’s massive scale. You will drive performance improvements to our ads serving and delivery infrastructure, while expanding our systems to support a variety of new and immersive ads experiences. Your scope will span across multiple teams and require close collaboration with engineers across ML, backend, and analytics to shape the future of ads infrastructure at Roblox. This role is a great fit for you if you are proficient in managing large scale systems and data-driven applications and have a zeal for developing inspiring, easily maintainable, and reusable code. Join our highly skilled and rapidly growing team and make a significant impact at Roblox. This position will report to our Senior Engineering Manager and require you to work onsite at our HQ in San Mateo, CA Tuesdays to Thursdays. You Will: - Build and ship best-in-class Ads products used by hundreds of millions of users. - Develop backend services that scale to billions of products and transactions. - Be a tech lead and mentor junior engineers - Self-organize and take ownership of projects throughout their full lifecycle. You Have - 8+ years of experience in software development and shipping products to production - 4+ years of server-side architecture/design at scale and compiled language experience such as C#, Java, C++, or others. - 4+ years of experience identifying and driving solutions to difficult problems that span multiple teams and require deep technical expertise. - Knowledge with REST, GRPC, distributed systems design, and scalable containerized systems and microservices You Are: - A Technical Leader: You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical solutions. Your technical expertise influences product direction. You nurture a culture of technical excellence. - Data & System Oriented: You understand that robust data is the foundation of great ML systems, and you design infrastructure for scale, correctness, and reliability. - Collaborative: You thrive in cross-functional teams, partnering effectively with ML, backend, and product engineers to solve complex challenges. - Curious & Creative: You enjoy tackling hard problems, exploring new technologies, and driving continuous improvements in both systems and workflows. - Impact Driven: You focus on outcomes - prioritizing product impact, reliability, and measurable success over code volume or complexity. 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 $293,800 - $343,340 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.
Principal Enterprise Security Engineer
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 Principal Enterprise Security Engineer, you will advance Roblox’s Enterprise Security strategy by shaping and evolving security architecture in alignment with business objectives. You will lead the design, deployment, and governance of security solutions that safeguard Roblox’s corporate infrastructure while enabling scalable, secure operations. Partnering cross-functionally with Corporate Engineering and Trust & Safety, you will translate organizational priorities into resilient security capabilities that balance risk, compliance, and productivity. You will join the Platform, Enterprise, and Application Security group, reporting directly to the Senior Manager of Enterprise Security Engineering. You'll partner with security professionals across the InfoSec team, and work cross-functionally with teams throughout Roblox to drive security initiatives that scale with our business. You will: - Define and maintain enterprise-wide security standards and principles that guide how security is implemented across business workflows, ensuring consistency, scalability, and alignment with organizational risk posture. - Lead and drive initiatives across core security domains, including Endpoint Security, SaaS Security, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Agentic AI Governance, and Supply Chain Security. - Collaborate closely with IT, engineering, DevOps, and business stakeholders to integrate security tools, policies, and processes into enterprise systems and workflows, enabling secure-by-design implementations - Mentor engineers and stakeholders , serving as a trusted advisor on security architecture, control design, and secure implementation patterns. You have: - 9+ years of relevant professional experience. - Deep expertise in Identity and Access Management, Authentication & Authorization, Endpoint management, Network Security controls and SaaS security posture management - Strong understanding of security concepts including zero trust architecture, threat modeling, security frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001), and best practices in corporate security environments - Demonstrated ability to design and operationalize security policies, principles, and controls across diverse teams and systems. - Experience with modern Enterprise infrastructure and SaaS ecosystems, including Google Workspace, Okta, MDM solutions, SSPM, ZTA and cloud-native environments. - Experience designing or operating workflows using low-code and no-code orchestration platforms. You are: - Collaborative: You love working with your direct team and cross-functional partners. - Strategic thinker: You define clear business requirements and assess commercial solutions to inform build vs. buy decisions. - Comfortable with ambiguity: You gather data and navigate complex situations even when facing incomplete information or unclear requirements. 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 $293,800 - $343,340 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.
Senior Data Scientist - App Performance
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 Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency and acumen of making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product groups, we use this vast tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products and measure the impact on our community of players and developers. Roblox is used by tens of millions of people every day, across almost all devices (mobile, desktop, console, VR, etc.). Our users expect top-notch app performance: lightning-quick launches, buttery smooth animations, and rock-solid stability. As a Data Scientist on the team, you will partner with engineers, product managers, and leaders across the company in our efforts to create the best app experience on any device for Roblox. This area is pivotal to our company’s success, directly impacting all users and being one of Roblox's highest priorities. You will define KPIs and measure the impact of key performance improvements while leveraging statistics, analytics, and experiments to influence decisions and strategies related to enhancing the performance and reliability of the Roblox app. You Will: - Define and measure success metrics for App performance. Determine which performance metrics matter to end users and how app performance impacts user engagement and monetization. - Establish an understanding of the trade-offs between different performance levers and use these insights to influence strategies, ensuring right-sized investments that optimize business growth and user experience. - Access raw data, transform it, analyze it, and present it in a compelling and understandable way. Perform deep dives to uncover new insights and opportunities. - Operationalize and scale metrics monitoring by building tools that enable quick slicing and dicing of data as well as root cause analysis. Collaborate with engineers to detect and investigate abnormal trends, identifying opportunities for improvement. - Use A/B experiments and causal inference methods to evaluate the success of feature launches. - Navigate ambiguity and work with stakeholders across various organizations, including User, Growth, Engine, and Creator teams. You Have: - An advanced degree or equivalent experience in Statistics, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, or a related quantitative field. - 5+ years of industry experience in a data science role, preferably with a background in app and system performance. - Strong experience working with large datasets and proficiency in SQL, R/Python, and data visualization tools. - Deep knowledge and practical application of statistical methods, causal inference techniques, and experimental design. - Ability to drive an area as an individual contributor and thought leader. - Ability to apply creative, first-principles reasoning to solve ambiguous problems. - Strong communication skills to present analytics results and data storytelling effectively, influencing engineering teams and leaders. You Are: - Passionate about data. You have the curiosity and self-drive to continuously learn new techniques and tools to extract value from data. - Highly self-driven. You thrive with freedom and autonomy and are excited by the ambiguity that comes from exploring a new problem space. - A strong communicator. You understand that analysis must be presented in meaningful ways and engage in spirited discussions about the findings. You can explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience. - A capable statistician. You understand the value of characterizing data by its distribution. Covariance, Bias, and Conditional Probability are concepts that you rely on every day. - An expert transforming data with SQL and a scripting language such as Python or R. You’re experienced in automating efforts and crunching massive volumes of data. - Experienced in developing models to draw insights from data. You use regression, data mining, and other statistical techniques to create new, scalable solutions to solve challenging business problems. You understand when to apply the appropriate methodology to maximize impact pragmatically. 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 $263,670 - $322,820 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.
Integrated Marketing Manager, Creator
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. We are looking for an Integrated Marketing Manager to help define and execute how we tell the creator story to the world. This role sits at the intersection of product launches, brand narrative, and creator advocacy. We are looking for a candidate who can professionalize and scale our marketing efforts. You will move beyond simple execution to lead proactive narratives around creation and community, ensuring our programs targeting the large and diverse creator eco-system are high-impact and market-ready. You Will: - Lead integrated marketing strategy and execution for creator focused initiatives across the Roblox ecosystem, spanning product launches, platform updates, incentive and support programs, and seasonal moments - Develop and own a clear creator narrative that supports both endemic creators on Roblox and non endemic developers evaluating the platform - Partner closely with Product Marketing to bring creator launches to market, translating product value into credible, creator first messaging and launch plans - Build and scale creator storytelling and advocacy through programs such as Creator Spotlights, case studies, and creator led narratives - Develop and manage integrated marketing plans across owned, earned, and paid channels, in collaboration with Creative, Social, Comms, Media, and regional teams - Co lead cross functional teams across Product Marketing, Developer Relations, Community, Analytics, and external partners to deliver high impact campaigns - Define success metrics and use insights to continuously refine creator messaging, creative, and channel strategy You Have: - 8+ years of integrated marketing experience, ideally in consumer tech, gaming, platforms, or creator driven ecosystems - Strong understanding of the gaming ecosystem, including live service games, UGC platforms, and creator driven economies - Familiarity with game developers and UGC creators, including how they build, monetize, grow audiences, and engage communities - Experience leading cross channel campaigns across social, video, paid media, and owned content - Proven ability to translate complex products and systems into clear, compelling narratives for creator audiences - Experience influencing cross functional partners and leading through collaboration - Strong storytelling, organizational, and project management skills - A clear point of view on how creators should be represented publicly, with strong judgment around credibility and authenticity 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 $191,340 - $234,390 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.
Senior Compliance Program Manager, Data Reporting
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. Roblox is looking for a Senior Compliance Program Manager to step into a critical role that will focus on building, managing, and scaling our transparency reporting program in partnership with legal, data science, engineering, and product teams. You will also focus on managing the end to end process for responding to complex requests for dataset access. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable querying and working with raw data sets as they are with managing and executing compliance programs. You thrive in a fast-paced environment where you are expected to effectively manage multiple highly-cross-functional programs at once. You have deep experience in transparency reporting and regulatory compliance data operations. You Will: - Drive Complex Data Requests: Coordinate with Engineering, Legal, Data Science, and Product teams to process, organize, and extract time sensitive complex requests for dataset access, ensuring adherence to strict privacy and security standards. - Manage Transparency Roadmaps: Partner closely with our Transparency Reporting Product Manager and Data Science teams to build, maintain, and execute comprehensive roadmaps for our public transparency reporting. - Manage End-to-End Publication: Oversee the lifecycle of our transparency reports from data collection and validation to drafting, cross-functional review, and final public release. - Mitigate Project Risks: Monitor work streams, identify technical or operational bottlenecks, and implement solutions to ensure regulatory deadlines and publication dates are met on time. - Streamline Processes: Build, develop, and optimize programmatic documentation, workflows, and trackers for data requests and the transparency reporting program. You Have: - Experience: 6+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, Compliance, Transparency Reporting, or Data Science preferably within the Technology sectors. - Technical Acumen: Demonstrated experience working directly with Data Science and Engineering teams. Familiarity with database architecture, data pipelines, and query languages (e.g., SQL) to effectively scope and organize data pulls. - Reporting Experience: Prior experience supporting the creation, data validation, and publication of public-facing transparency reports, compliance audits, or complex external data disclosures. - Regulatory Fluency: Demonstrated capability to become fluent in relevant regulatory frameworks, especially those focused on online safety. - Structured Organization: Exceptional project management skills with the ability to track hundreds of moving parts simultaneously using tools like Jira, Asana, Airtable or GRC platforms. - Communication Skills: You are an excellent writer and verbal communicator who can synthesize complex technical and legal concepts for diverse audiences. - Cross-Functional Influence: Ability to manage competing priorities across dependent teams, drive alignment, and deliver under tight deadlines. 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 $210,930 - $251,230 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.
Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Content Safety
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. Why Content Safety? As a Principal Machine Learning Engineer for Content Safety, you will define the future of proactive moderation, driving immense social impact through cutting-edge, innovative ML solutions, focused on critical and ambiguous safety challenges. You will set the 3-5 year technical strategy and architectural blueprint for how Roblox uses machine learning for content moderation. You will own the architectural and execution roadmap of massive-scale ML systems that mitigate violative UGC content before it impacts our community. You will feel a deep sense of responsibility in proactively protecting our community thoughtfully and fairly, while balancing user freedom with platform civility. Your efforts will ensure Roblox remains one of the safest places on the internet for our broad community of over 100 million daily active users. You will: - Define and Own the Technical Vision: Define and lead the multi-year technical vision, architectural strategy, and execution for machine learning solutions in Content Safety, ensuring these systems proactively and effectively detect and mitigate violative content at massive scale. - Strategic Stakeholder Partnership: Collaborate with executive-level Product, Data Science, Policy, and Operations leaders to define and prioritize the strategic machine learning roadmap, influencing product strategy and demonstrating the impact of ML on user trust and safety outcomes. - Lead Innovation: Oversee the adoption and safe deployment of innovative machine learning techniques (e.g., transfer-learning, self-supervised learning, quantization, LoRA, distillation). - Drive End-to-End Product Development: You will not just model; you will build. You will work cross-functionally to construct datasets from scratch where none exist, build auto-labeling pipelines, and ship solutions to solve novel technical problems. - Ship Code, Not Just Models: Expect to spend roughly 30-40% of your time on backend and integration work . You will be responsible for integrating your work into the production stack, leveraging modern AI coding tools (e.g., Cursor) to accelerate velocity and handle infrastructure complexity You have: - 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and operating large-scale, high-impact machine learning systems in a production environment. - A proven track record of successfully setting the long-term technical direction for an entire ML domain, demonstrating the ability to take ambiguous problems from concept to scaled production impact. - Deep expertise in advanced ML architectures and techniques, including Computer Vision (CV) and/or Vision-Language Models (VLMs) - Expertise in architecting scalable, real-time ML inference services and robust data pipelines - Demonstrated success in leading and resolving high-stakes, cross-functional conflicts and technical disagreements, with an ability to build consensus among diverse stakeholders. - Exceptional product sense and strategic planning ability: able to translate platform safety requirements into an achievable, iterative technical roadmap. You are: - A Visionary Architect: Capable of synthesizing complex business and safety goals into a clear, compelling, and actionable technical strategy. - A Pragmatic Builder: You are scrappy and impact-oriented. You view undefined data and messy systems as opportunities to build structure rather than blockers to progress. - Comfortable with Ambiguity: You thrive in undefined or open-ended problem spaces, providing structure, clarity, and decisive direction to your teams. - An Inspiring Leader: Passionate about developing the next generation of technical leaders, managers, and engineers. - An Executive Communicator: Highly effective at communicating complex technical concepts to both engineering teams and non-technical executive leadership. - Committed to Ethical AI: Dedicated to building ML systems that are fair, transparent, and operate with the utmost responsibility toward user safety and platform civility. 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 $295,250 - $345,040 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.
[2026] Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation Systems - PhD Early Career
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. Recommendation Systems are a key growth lever at Roblox, driving retention, engagement, and monetization for hundreds of millions of users. This role offers the unique opportunity to redefine how users search and discover everything from the most interesting immersive experiences and digital avatars in our Marketplace to personalized advertising. You will solve a diverse range of high-scale ranking, retrieval, and personalization problems across our platform. We combine cutting-edge research —including deep learning, generative AI, and reinforcement learning techniques— with large-scale engineering to bridge experimentation and production; you'll design algorithms that operate at massive scale and shape the next generation of recommender systems for user-generated content. Teams Hiring for This Role - Search and Discovery: powers major recommendation surfaces—conducting cutting-edge research in generative modeling, multimodal and MLLM technologies, designing advanced agentic AI algorithms to solve business requirements while achieving technical breakthroughs. - Notifications: owns the distributed systems and ML platform that transform billions of Roblox signals into high‑value notifications for hundreds of millions of players. - Economy: builds the ML backbone for marketplace, monetization, and commerce (including fraud, pricing, and bundling) - Ads & Brands: focuses on ranking, retrieval, and marketplace/auction theory to optimize sponsored content delivery. - Safety, Alt Defense: architects a massive-scale detection engine that identifies recidivist bad actors across billions of accounts to ensure the long-term integrity of the Roblox community. You Will - Design and implement large-scale recommendation systems that power discovery across Roblox’s surfaces — experiences, avatars, and creator content. - Develop deep learning models for ranking, retrieval, and personalization using approaches in multimodal models, LLMs, and generative AI. - Collaborate with applied researchers, engineers, and product teams to advance experimentation and accelerate innovation. - Translate research into production systems that impact hundreds of millions of daily active users. - Work backward from user and product needs to deliver ML solutions that drive engagement, retention, and ecosystem growth. You Have - Possessing or pursuing a PhD in computer science, engineering, or a related field, with a thesis aligned to Roblox’s research areas. - Expertise in one or more areas: recommender systems, search systems, information retrieval, or generative models (e.g., LLMs, VLMs, VLAs) - Ability to design and architect systems for efficient personalization and user interest modeling using advanced attention mechanisms (e.g., sparse/linear attention). - A strong research track record, evidenced by multiple publications and presentations in top-tier, peer-reviewed venues (e.g., SIGIR, KDD, RecSys, ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS) - Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C++, Go, Java) and experience building and optimizing large-scale systems. Apply now to be considered for anticipated positions. You may redact age, date of birth, and dates of attendance/graduation from your resume if you prefer. As you apply, you can find more information about our process by signing up for Speak_. You'll gain access to our practice assessment, comprehensive guides, FAQs, and modules designed to help you ace the hiring process. 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 $195,780 - $242,100 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.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads
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. With Roblox’s daily active users growing at a record pace, we are seeking experienced machine learning engineers who thrive on solving complex challenges and designing scalable, ground breaking solutions. In this role, you will develop deep learning-based models for performance advertising business. Your work will lay the foundation to deliver effective performance ads to our users, and more business values to our advertisers. You will build innovative machine-learning solutions to power ad ranking algorithms, and personalized advertising experiences. With our ads system still in its early stages, this is a unique opportunity to shape and develop a world-class, ML-driven advertising platform from the ground up. You Will: - Drive the design and implementation of machine learning solutions for ad ranking algorithms. - Design and implement large scale recommendation models - Author specs for new features and improvement - Collaborate with other teams within Roblox to make sure we are building products with a community first approach. - Balance researching new technologies with a practical approach to accomplish the research efforts into the Roblox products - Communicate with the industry and communities where applicable and be ambassador for Roblox. You Have: - You have 5+ years of experience designing and building scalable machine learning solutions to solve real-world production use cases. Experienced with transformer based model training, inference, and product integration are a plus. - A BS in Computer Science or a related discipline, advanced degrees are a definite plus. - You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical decisions across multiple teams and organizations. - While deeply technical, you always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers. - You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems. You simplify the complex. You bring in fresh ideas from new places. 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 $259,030 - $311,430 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.
Senior / Principal Data Scientist - Discovery
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. WHY DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS? The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency and acumen of making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product verticals, we use this extensive tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products and measure impact on our community of players and developers. WHY DISCOVERY EXPERIENCES? Roblox is not just a platform; it is a complex, two-sided marketplace where millions of creators meet over 70 million daily active users. The Discovery Experiences team is the technical heartbeat of this ecosystem. We own the surfaces—Home, Search, Matchmaking, and Notifications—that determine how users navigate the metaverse. As a Principal Data Scientist , you will own the ranking initiatives that power these canvases. You aren't just building models; you are building the economic and social frameworks that decide which experiences thrive. You will report directly to the Senior Director of Data Science and serve as a high-visibility IC leader driving the roadmap for our most critical consumer touchpoints. You Will: - Algorithmic Vision: Lead the development of ML solutions and ranking frameworks that power our discovery canvases. You will move beyond local optimizations to solve for long-term ecosystem health and user retention. - Strategic XFN Partnership: Act as the primary scientific advisor to Product and Engineering leaders. You will use data to inform, drive, and accelerate innovations via deep-dive insights and ML prototypes. - Causal Inference & Experimentation: Leverage advanced causal inference methodologies to measure the effectiveness of platform initiatives (e.g., social features or site-wide events) that are often susceptible to complex network effects. - Foundational Scaling: Develop frameworks to scale the hypothesis generation process, ensuring that our experimentation velocity matches our massive growth. - First-Principles Problem Solving: Apply creative, first-principles reasoning to ambiguous problems, such as balancing the visibility of established "top tier" experiences with the discovery of new, niche UGC content. You Have: - Advanced degree (Masters or PhD) in a quantitative field (Statistics, CS, Physics, Applied Math, or Economics). - 10+ years of experience (or 6+ with a PhD) in Data Science, Economics, or ML Engineering, specifically within large-scale recommendation systems or UGC content platforms . - Expert in the modern data stack (Python, R, SQL, Hive, Spark, Airflow) and have a deep theoretical and practical understanding of Deep Learning. - Ability to design sophisticated experiments that account for the nuances of a two-sided marketplace and social network effects. - Ability to distill high-dimensional problems into succinct, actionable narratives for non-technical executive audiences. 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 $307,430 - $373,680 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.
Senior 3D Artist, Technical
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 Technical Animator, you will be working with a team of talented engineers, artists, and technical artists to push the boundaries of what is possible on the Roblox platform. You will be instrumental in informing where we take our animation tools and help advance our capabilities by providing reference animations and new animations for our platform. You will: - Partner with engineers to prototype and guide the development of our movement and rigging systems - Be a subject matter expert on animation and animation technology who cultivates a comprehensive, user-centered animation system - Evaluate our internal workflows to develop a POV on areas of critical investment; bring knowledge of industry best practices to the team - Coordinate and review any outsourced animation assets and be responsible for quality control - Partner with our community engagement and documentation teams to build tutorials and sample content - Engage with external creators to advise on best practices and surface opportunities to further improve workflows - Familiarity with scripting languages and node-based character controllers (i.e. Unreal Blueprints) is ideal You have: - A Bachelor’s degree or proven experience in a related CG field or computer science - 5+ years experience in the game industry, worked on titles on multiple platforms (mobile a plus) - Ability: Envision extensible and efficient methods for production of high quality avatars; including clothing, hair, and skin shading - Knowledge: Strong understanding of modern real-time engines, a variety of tools (including Maya and Blender), runtime animation systems, sophisticated deformation systems and cloth simulation - Skills: Demonstrates an expertise in human motion, squash and stretch, timing, and secondary motion - Technical Toolbelt: Builds rigs and morph targets, does skin weighting, and uses solvers for hair and cloth - Strong communication and collaboration skills - 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 $163,940 - $200,850 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.
Senior Design Engineer
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 Design Engineer on the Design Acceleration team, you’ll be an individual contributor focused on evolving the systems and processes which power Roblox’s design organization through scalable systems, AI integrations, and custom tooling. Our team is responsible for building the orchestration layers and internal tools that empower designers and engineers to work faster and more cohesively. You will help build internal tools, like Figma plugins and design utilities, that empower designers and engineers to work faster and more cohesively. You have experience at the intersection of systems engineering and design tooling. You understand design systems, but your superpower is building the backend services, APIs, and data models that allow those systems to scale. Your work will help ensure our design tools, AI agents, and prototypes not only inspire—but deploy seamlessly into production environments. You will: - Architect and build scalable backend services and APIs that connect our design tools to AI models and production environments (Roblox Studio). - Develop agentic workflows and orchestration layers (such as Model Context Protocol servers) to enable natural language generation of UI components, layouts, and prototypes. - Build automated CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure to abstract away complex DevOps workflows, creating "zero-config" development environments for non-technical designers. - Design and maintain the data architecture that connects our design system to our AI data sources, ensuring design tokens and components are programmatically accessible and synced across multiple platforms. - Create internal tools, develop plugins for tools like Figma and Cursor, and build web apps focused on design linting, code generation, and automated compliance at scale. - Serve as the deeply technical bridge between core engineering, AI research, and product design, ensuring our design acceleration tools are secure, performant, and structurally sound. - You will report to the Manager of Design Acceleration. You have: - 6+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on full-stack or backend development, systems architecture, and API design. - Demonstrated experience building scalable internal services, not just frontend interfaces. - Familiarity with LLM orchestration, agentic workflows, and AI protocols (e.g., MCP). - Experience with cloud infrastructure, feature-flag management, version control (GitHub Enterprise), and automated deployment pipelines. - Strong understanding of Figma plugin architecture and how to programmatically parse and manipulate design data at scale. - (Nice to have) Experience with Roblox development, Lua/React-Lua, or game-engine UI architecture. - (Nice to have) Experience with ASTs (Abstract Syntax Trees), compiler logic, or automated code generation. 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 $214,710 - $255,720 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.
Distinguished Engineer, Consumer Apps
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. Consumer Apps Technical Director The Distinguished Engineer will play a pivotal role in building out a platform expansion strategy to help scale the Roblox UI. As the Distinguished Engineer within our User Group, you will cultivate innovation while creating a single middle-layer framework that will work across all devices (console, mobile, desktop, VR, etc.). This unique position requires a dynamic individual with comprehensive understanding of middle-layer frameworks and system engineering principles. What you'll do: - Steward a robust, scalable, and device-agnostic middle-layer framework that can abstract away the underlying hardware and software complexities. - Ensure the framework provides a consistent and intuitive API for developers to build applications that can run on multiple platforms without significant modifications. - Optimize the framework's performance and resource utilization to deliver a smooth and responsive user experience on all supported platforms. - Cultivate a collaborative and innovative environment, encouraging team members to share their expertise and contribute to the overall success of the project. - Provide comprehensive documentation, training, and support to the development teams using the framework, ensuring a flawless integration and adoption across the organization. What we're looking for: - 15+ years of experience in developing robust, cross-platform software frameworks and architectures. - Extensive background in building cross browser, device independent interfaces, & platforms (i.e., iOS, Android, console). - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent - Excellent collaboration skills to work effectively with different teams, gain a thorough understanding of challenges, customer requirements, and various device types and platforms, and to create creative solutions that address common needs. - Strong background in UI architecture, libraries and frameworks that can adapt to multiple technologies, operating systems, and platforms without the need for separate implementations. - Experience building fast and reusable, UI components under MVC or MVVM frameworks - Proficiency in front-end development, with a deep understanding of how to translate generic application requirements into platform-specific native code while maintaining a consistent user experience. Who you are: - A software engineering leader experienced in cross-platform development challenges and proven abilities to create innovative solutions. - A strategic mind-set and problem solver who can anticipate and address the evolving needs of the organization and its customers across devices and platforms. - A highly skilled professional with excellent communication and collaboration abilities, capable of connecting and aligning diverse teams with varying technical expertise. - A passionate leader who inspires and motivates a team of engineers with a strong work ethic to deliver high-quality, scalable, and maintainable software solutions. - Committed to staying up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies, and continuously improving the framework to ensure its long-term relevance. 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 $397,460 - $455,720 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.
Director of Engineering – Studio Systems
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. Why Roblox Studio? Roblox Studio is the creation engine behind millions of immersive 3D experiences built by creators around the world. It serves everyone from first-time developers to large professional studios, combining a powerful real-time engine with a deeply expressive toolchain. As creation on Roblox grows more sophisticated, Studio must continue evolving as a world-class development environment for interactive 3D experiences. That requires deep investment in the technical systems that underpin the IDE experience from scripting, debugging, architecture, and core IDE capabilities including performance. We are looking for a leader who can raise the bar on these foundational systems and help shape the future of Studio as a high-quality, extensible, and performant creation environment. Familiarity with creator tools is important, and experience with AI-assisted creation is a plus. The Role We are seeking a Director of Engineering for Studio Systems to lead a critical area of Roblox Studio’s technical foundation. In this role, you will be accountable for the architecture, execution, and long-term evolution of core systems that power Studio’s IDE and developer workflows. This includes areas such as scripting, debugging, toolchain, and core architecture that are central to making Studio powerful, reliable, and scalable for creators. This role requires deep technical leadership, strong engineering judgment, and the ability to lead through complex architectural and organizational challenges. The ideal candidate brings strong experience in developer tools or IDE-like environments, and is comfortable leading teams working in large-scale C++ codebases. This role will be based in our San Mateo, CA headquarters (hybrid with Tues-Thurs onsite days). You Will: - Own the technical direction and delivery of major investments across Studio’s core systems. - Lead teams working on foundational areas such as scripting, debugging, toolchain, architecture, and related developer workflows. - Set and uphold a high engineering quality bar for performance, reliability, maintainability, and extensibility. - Lead senior engineers and managers across multiple teams. - Drive alignment and execution across Studio, Engine, Product, Design, Infrastructure, and related partner teams. - Partner with executive leadership to translate long-term technical strategy into durable roadmaps and organizational plans. - Help shape Studio into a best-in-class development environment for both emerging creators and professional developers. - Contribute to the future direction of AI-assisted creation workflows where they intersect with Studio’s core systems and developer experience. You Have: - 15+ years of engineering experience, including leadership of large-scale and long-lived technical systems. - Proven leadership through major architectural, tooling, or platform transitions. - Strong experience building developer tools, IDEs, editor technologies, or other sophisticated technical products. - Deep technical background in systems engineering, including substantial experience with C++. - Familiarity with creator tools and workflows, especially in game development, 3D creation, or interactive development environments. - Track record of delivering reliable, high-quality systems in complex production environments. - Strong technical judgment and the ability to communicate effectively at both deep technical and executive levels. - Experience with AI-assisted creation, intelligent tooling, or LLM-powered workflows is a plus. 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 $399,420 - $457,970 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.
Principal Software Engineer - Content Lifecycle
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 Principal Engineer on Content Lifecycle, you will be leading the architecture and design of workflows on Roblox Studio and our platform enabling Creators and AI agents to collaborate at scale by creating, sharing, and managing reusable content. The ideal candidate has C++ and game engine experience, enjoys solving complex software problems and has a passion for mentoring other engineers on the team. We believe that collaborative teams are the future of building one’s imagination on Roblox and you will be designing and building features which unlock that vision. Join us in our mission to make collaboration at scale performant, frictionless, and most of all fun! You Will: - Plan and deliver complex technical features E2E in our game engine and in the Roblox Studio that will allow developers to grow in our community - Establish the foundational architecture and technical direction that will enable Studio to keep expanding its capabilities - Work cross functionally, across teams and technology platforms to deliver high quality and amazing user functionality - Lead by example and mentor engineers to implement technological best practices, patterns, and strategies - Improve the product quality by fostering automation testing - Participate in building the world's best professional application for massively multiplayer game development You Have: - At least 8+ years experience and you've worked on deep and challenging problems with large scale systems in C++ codebases - Worked on the internals of a multi-player game engine, solving problems related to scale, performance, latency, and throughput in client/server environments - Experience delivering end-to-end on features that span multiple teams and technology platforms - A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience You Are: - Familiar with how version control systems work under the hood - Familiar with 3D scene and game development tools and workflows - Familiar with file storage systems or network protocols 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 $295,250 - $345,040 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.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Economy
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 Machine Learning Engineer on the Economy ML team, you will build models that power ranking, personalization, pricing, and optimization across Roblox’s economic surfaces, including Marketplace, Developer Monetization, and Payments. Your work will directly shape how users discover virtual items, how creators earn, and how the platform grows sustainably. The Economy ML team is building the machine learning backbone for Roblox’s virtual economy—from intelligent pricing and personalized storefronts to dynamic layout optimization and avatar content understanding. We partner closely with Marketplace, Payments, and Developer Monetization to deliver ML systems that drive long‑term value across engagement, retention, and creator earnings. You will: - Work backwards from ambiguous product problems to design and ship end‑to‑end ML solutions for ranking, recommendation, pricing, and content understanding across Economy surfaces. - Build and iterate on deep learning retrieval and ranking models that personalize item and widget ordering across the Marketplace and other shopping experiences. - Develop models and policies that optimize pricing, conversion, and revenue while balancing ecosystem health, payer experience, and creator success. - Own the full ML lifecycle for your projects: data exploration, feature engineering, model design, training, evaluation, and production deployment on Roblox’s ML platform. - Design and run robust experiments (A/B tests and multi‑cell experiments), tying your work to core metrics such as engagement, bookings, and creator earnings. - Partner cross‑functionally with Product, Backend, Data Science, Design, and other Marketplace / Economy teams to define roadmaps, requirements, and success metrics for ML‑driven features. - Ensure the systems you build are scalable, reliable, observable, and extensible , including setting best practices around logging, monitoring, and on‑call readiness for ML services. - Contribute to the technical direction of the Economy ML team: help refine our modeling stack, experimentation strategy, and approaches to long‑term reward optimization across the economy. - Mentor other engineers on ML best practices, code quality, and experimentation, helping raise the technical bar of the broader Economy organization. You Have - BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related technical field—or equivalent practical experience building ML systems. - Experienced: 5+ years experience with one or more of the following areas: search, recommendation, personalization, pricing, or content understanding systems for a high‑scale product. - Fluent in the ML lifecycle: Comfortable taking a problem from messy data and product ambiguity through modeling, evaluation, and stable production deployment, including building and maintaining data pipelines and feature stores. - Deeply product‑oriented: You think in terms of impact on users, creators, and the business, and you can reason clearly about how model choices affect metrics like LTV, engagement, conversion, and creator earnings. - Technically strong in modern ML: Hands‑on experience with deep learning for ranking/retrieval, representation learning for text and/or vision, and large‑scale training/inference on distributed infrastructure. You Are - Experiment‑driven: You are comfortable designing experiments, diagnosing metric movements, and iterating quickly while maintaining statistical rigor and healthy guardrails for the ecosystem. - Collaborative and low‑ego: You enjoy working closely with engineers, Product Managers, Data scientists, and designers across Marketplace, Payments, and Developer Monetization, and you can drive alignment in complex, multi‑stakeholder environments. - Creative and strategic: You take a long‑term view of the Roblox economy, are comfortable challenging assumptions, and can balance quick wins with foundational investments in data, infrastructure, and modeling quality. 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.
Distinguished Engineer, Machine Learning Systems – Economy
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. At Roblox , we’re building the tools and platform that empower a global community of creators and developers to build immersive experiences and a dynamic virtual economy. Our Economy ML team sits at the heart of this mission, delivering scalable machine learning systems that power personalization, pricing, search, and content understanding across all Economy surfaces: Marketplace, Developer Monetization, Payments, and Avatar. We’re looking for a Distinguished Engineer/Technical Director to lead the strategy and technical direction for ML systems , with a focus on large-scale recommendations, infrastructure, and emerging Generative AI applications. You’ll help build the systems that support retrieval, ranking, generative modeling, and LLM-powered personalization, all at massive scale. This role requires deep systems thinking, hands-on ML expertise, and a vision for how traditional ML and GenAI come together to power the future of the Roblox economy. Why Roblox for ML Systems - AI/ML is a top company priority , with long-term investment. - Real-world scale : Power millions of daily economic interactions across ranking, pricing, fraud, and search. - Full-system ownership : Build and optimize end-to-end ML pipelines; from data ingestion to GPU training to live inference. - Complex surfaces, rich signals : Design systems for 3D content, UGC, avatar metadata, behavioral and economic signals, not just text or images. - Impact meets innovation : Shape the future of the Roblox economy while working on frontier ML infra and GenAI workflows. You will: - Set the technical direction for ML systems powering core economy experiences: personalization, ranking, generative modeling, and more - Build and evolve infrastructure for training, serving, and evaluating both traditional ML models and Generative AI models (e.g., embedding-based retrieval, transformers, LLM-based workflows) - Partner with GenAI teams to explore multi-modal embeddings, avatar generation, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in economic surfaces Lead efforts to optimize ML system performance: low-latency serving, efficient GPU training, and cost-aware inference strategies - Guide the development of robust ML pipelines, online feature stores, and experimentation platforms that support both predictive and generative use cases - Collaborate with EMs, tech leads, and product partners to align technical architecture with business priorities - Mentor senior engineers and help establish a strong technical culture across the Economy ML team - Ensure robustness, observability, and scalability of ML systems that power millions of daily economic interactions - Own the architecture behind some of Roblox’s most foundational ML systems - Work across groups at Roblox to advance the state of ML/AI at the company. - Help scale a fast-growing ML organization and define Roblox’s future economy intelligence stack - Solve real-world problems with real user impact, powering millions of personalized, intelligent economic interactions every day You have: - 10+ years of experience in software engineering or ML infrastructure, with a strong focus on large-scale ML systems - Deep expertise in building recommendation systems, ranking infrastructure, or real-time personalization engines - Hands-on experience with Generative AI, such as transformer-based models, LLMs, embeddings, or RAG pipelines - Proven experience with distributed training, model deployment, and GPU-accelerated workflows - Strong understanding of ML system architecture: data pipelines, feature stores, inference optimization, experimentation tooling - Systems-first mindset with strong instincts around scale, cost, performance, and reliability - Track record of leading large technical initiatives and mentoring senior engineers - BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field 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 $397,460 - $455,720 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.
Senior Data Engineer, Ads
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. 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. About the role: With Roblox’s daily active users growing at a record pace, we are seeking a senior data engineer to help build the next generation of Ad Data and ML feature infrastructure. Our team sits at the core of advertising systems at Roblox, powering high-scale, high-throughput data systems that shape ads personalization, ranking, and measurement. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will architect and build foundational data pipelines, real-time streaming systems, and scalable feature computation frameworks. Your work will enable rapid experimentation, empower ranking models, and support personalized ad delivery at massive scale. You will collaborate closely with engineers across ML, backend, and analytics to shape the future of ads data infrastructure at Roblox. This role is a great fit for you if you are proficient in managing large scale systems and data-driven applications and have a zeal for developing inspiring, easily maintainable, and reusable code. Join our highly skilled and rapidly growing team and make a significant impact at Roblox. You Will: - Build high-performance data pipelines and real-time streaming systems that support both online and offline ML features, training data and statistical computation at scale. - Design and scale robust data infrastructure for powering retrieval and ranking of various ads systems across Roblox - Ensure data systems are reliable, observable, privacy-compliant, and performant under heavy concurrency and high throughput. - Partner with ML and backend engineers to define scalable interfaces and enable rapid iteration for model development and experimentation. - Partner with our Data Platform and Data Infra teams to build our high quality data processing workflows. - Contribute to internal platforms and tools that abstract complexity, improve developer productivity, and accelerate innovation. - Be a tech lead and mentor junior engineers - Self-organize and take ownership of projects throughout their full lifecycle. You Have: - 7+ years of work experience building production-grade, scalable, and reliable data systems - Solid programming skills in languages such as Python and strong knowledge of SQL - Strong expertise in developing large-scale data pipelines (batch and streaming) and big-data processing technologies such as Spark, Apache Druid, Flink, Ray, Kubeflow, etc - Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills; enjoy building systems that enable and accelerate team productivity - Data-driven focus for quality metrics and monitoring - Approach data as a product—prioritizing quality, discoverability, and reusability - B.S. equivalent in CS or sufficient experience. Nice to Have: - Knowledge about advertising and the technology which powers it is preferred - Experience building data pipelines at TB+ scale. - Experience leveraging AI tooling to build simplified, human-centric experiences for internal customers. 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 $242,100 - $293,800 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.
Senior/Principal Software Engineer - Data Access
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. Roblox Storage team powers the data foundation behind every experience on the platform. As a Senior/ Principal Software Engineer for Data Access , you will architect and build the next‑generation managed OLTP data access layer — engineered for extreme scale, global availability , and uncompromising security. You will design core infrastructure capable of serving hundreds of millions of queries per second while ensuring reliable, low‑latency access to data worldwide. The challenges are large‑scale , highly technical , and business‑critical : you will shape foundational storage systems, evolve platform‑wide scalability and reliability, and provide strong technical leadership that raises engineering quality across teams. This work requires deep innovation, clear architectural vision, and a passion for distributed systems — redefining how Roblox engineers build, access, and trust data at scale. You will: - Partner with Product, Engineering, and Security teams to define long‑term strategy and technical requirements for the Data Access platform. - Lead the architecture, implementation, and operation of our storage Infra‑as‑a‑Service offerings, setting the engineering bar for scalability, reliability, and system hardening across teams. - Improve and scale our large distributed 24x7 services and deliver features with urgency, cost efficiency, zero down time, and high reliability. - Design and build frameworks or tools to automate development, testing, deployment, management, and monitoring of mission critical services. - Collaborate with partner teams, producing project work plans, measurable metrics, delivery milestones, rollout plans, oncall alerts, and runbooks while leveraging existing technology stack. - Give a high level of attention to creating high quality and reusable code, keeping development continuous without compromising site reliability. - Improve SLAs across the platform and reduce end‑to‑end rollout time for critical storage and data-access features. You have: - Strong experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems handling millions of real-time requests per second. - Deep data management knowledge in one or more of the following technologies: RDBMS (CockroachDB, SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, RDB), Caching (Redis), Kafka, KV store (DynamoDB, Cassandra). - Strong experience building deployment pipelines on top of container orchestrators like Kubernetes or Nomad and service discovery systems like Consul. - Strong experience with programming languages like Rust, Go, Java, or C++. - Strong scripting and test automation abilities. - Experience with telemetry stacks, like Grafana, Prometheus, AlertManager, and Kibana. - BS degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science, with at least 6 years of hands-on experience. 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 $278,530 - $345,040 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.
Senior Product Designer, Discovery
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 Product Designer on Discovery, you’ll help design the surfaces that connects billions of users with the best experiences for them. This includes home page, ranking, search, events, notifications, onboarding and more. You will design end-to-end discovery products for our core player app working collaboratively with other leaders across product, research, data science and engineering to define the best discovery experiences for our immersive platform. You'll help define UX strategy, product patterns, contribute to roadmap, and define sprint commitments. You'll be an inspirational designer, innovating on zero to one discovery features, partnering and mentoring other dedicated designers as we build an industry leading metaverse platform. You'll make an impact that fuels our user’s creativity and enables players around the world to enjoy incredible experiences on Roblox at a time of sustained growth for our business. You will: - Help define the UX design strategy and collaborate on the roadmap for core Discovery surfaces on Roblox. - Develop a deep understanding of user needs, behaviors, and motivations to advise design decisions. - Care about craft by creating visually compelling and intuitive user interfaces across devices and surfaces for a global audience. - Collaborate with the Foundation Design Systems team and co-develop new patterns and UI components to ensure consistency and scalability. - Understand the role of younger players, teen and adult players, brands, creators and studios to create a discovery strategy that serves all audiences. - Leverage analytics and user feedback to identify pain points and implement data-driven improvements. - Provide mentorship and guidance to junior designers, fostering a collaborative and innovative design culture. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams, influencing and aligning design decisions. - Partner with engineering by providing high-quality design specs and partner on implementation to deliver a high-quality, high-craft experience - Present design journeys and strategies at the team level You have: - A bachelor's degree or equivalent in Product Design, User Experience Design, Fine Arts, Graphic Design, or a related field. - Proven experience (8+ years) in UX/UI design, with a strong track record of delivery innovative consumer discovery experiences - A strong portfolio showcasing exceptional visual design skills and user-centered design thinking. - Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Blender, Maya or similar software. - End to End systems thinking that advocates for comprehensive and connected user experiences - A solid understanding of user-centered design principles and best practices. - Expert knowledge of communication design patterns and familiarity with e-commerce, 3D Avatars and gaming experiences. - Proactive problem solving and project management skills, with the ability to lead and inspire a design team. - Collaborative mentality with the ability to work cross-functionally and influence design decisions. - A deep understanding and passion for the gaming industry, especially user-generated content platforms like Roblox. - A keen interest in user experience trends, industry advancements, and emerging technologies. - The ability to balance business objectives, user needs, and technical constraints in design solutions. 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 $254,470 - $303,070 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.
Principal Software Engineer, Sharing
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 Principal Software Engineer on the Sharing team, you will shape the technical direction that powers how millions of users capture, share, and discover content on Roblox. You will lead the design of large-scale backend systems that support high-performance content creation, sharing, and discovery across the platform. You will partner closely with engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to define long-term architecture, drive technical excellence, and guide teams in building scalable and reliable systems. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive on solving complex distributed systems challenges while empowering other engineers and teams to do their best work. You Will - Define and drive the technical vision for large-scale backend systems that power content creation, sharing, and consumption across Roblox. - Lead the design and evolution of scalable distributed services that support billions of content interactions each day. - Guide and mentor engineers across the team, helping raise the bar for system design, code quality, and operational excellence. - Partner with product, infrastructure, and safety teams to shape cross-team architecture and ensure systems scale with the platform’s growth. - Identify systemic challenges across teams (performance, reliability, developer workflows) and drive long-term technical improvements. - Provide technical leadership during complex projects, helping teams make sound architectural decisions and navigate trade-offs. - Influence engineering best practices across the organization and help evolve the platform’s backend architecture. - Help grow the engineering organization by mentoring senior engineers and helping attract top technical talent. You Have - 8+ years of experience building large-scale backend systems in C++, C#, Java, or similar languages. - Deep experience designing distributed systems, scalable APIs, and high-throughput backend services. - Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives across multiple teams or systems. - Strong experience mentoring engineers and guiding teams through complex system design and architecture decisions. - Experience working on consumer-facing platforms at scale with millions of users. - Excellent product and systems thinking — able to balance user experience, system performance, and long-term maintainability. - A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 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 $295,250 - $345,040 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.
Principal Software Engineer - Roblox Database
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. Roblox’s database team develops the next-generation, multi-tenant database platform that elastically scales and underpins every online data workload at Roblox. As a principal engineer on the database team, you will shape the architecture, build and launch critical database capabilities that keep our services fast, reliable and efficient at global scale. You will report to the Technical Director for Storage. You will: - Design and implement new engine features —indexing, storage formats, WAL and replication protocols, sharding, and query-planner enhancements—that push latency, throughput, and availability boundaries. - Evolve the control plane to deliver elastic scaling, autonomous healing, and zero-downtime schema or tenant moves across global regions. - Profile and optimize critical code paths using kernel-level tracing and advanced performance tooling; drive systematic tail-latency reductions. - Establish engineering best practices by leading design reviews, performance benchmarks, failure drills, and post-incident retrospectives. - Automate everything : develop frameworks for testing, CI/CD, rollout safety, observability, and autoscaling so that the platform operates hands-off at scale. - Mentor and unblock engineers , fostering deep database craftsmanship and disseminating knowledge across Storage, Platform, and product teams. - Engage with the open-source community —upstreaming patches, presenting learnings, and influencing the future of Postgres, RocksDB and related ecosystems. You have: - 8+ years of experience in software engineering or a relevant field - Deep experience with building and operating large-scale distributed databases or storage engines (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL/InnoDB, RocksDB, Spanner, Aurora, AlloyDB). - Deep expertise in database internals —B-trees, MVCC, WAL, query optimization, buffer management—and strong skills in C/C++, GO or Rust . - Hands-on experience with consensus algorithms (Raft, Paxos) and multi-region replication models that deliver strong consistency and high availability. - Proven success shipping high-QPS, low-latency services on container orchestration stacks (Kubernetes or Nomad) with comprehensive observability. - Ability to turn ambiguous product requirements into a clear technical roadmap and influence cross-functional stakeholders. - Passion for automation, rigorous testing, and data-driven decision-making that raises the reliability and efficiency bar. - Bonus: upstream contributions to PostgreSQL, RocksDB or other OSS databases; familiarity with disaggregated storage, HTAP workloads, or custom query languages. 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 $293,800 - $343,340 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.
Principal Frontend Engineer - Discovery
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. Discovery UX sits at the intersection of product innovation and high-scale infrastructure. Every Roblox user starts their journey on the homepage, and every Roblox developer needs to find their correct audience. Our team works closely with product and engineering teams across Roblox to bridge this gap by improving the user journey from landing on Roblox to joining an experience. We primarily work on Home, Search, Charts, and Experience Details pages, for both the Roblox website and app. As a Principal Software Engineer , you will craft robust, extensible systems for high-traffic surfaces. While you are a frontend expert at heart, you are a versatile engineer who isn't afraid to dive into the backend or data pipelines to ship a complete feature. You will drive solutions using React and modern technologies, helping us build efficiently across devices. If you have a deep understanding of frontend architecture and a genuine curiosity for diving into data to understand "the why" behind an experiment, you will be right at home with us. This role reports to the Engineering Manager on the Discovery UX team. You Will: - Design, build, and ship features that define the discovery journey for millions of users. - Architect universal solutions for delivering high-performance features across a range of platforms and devices - Influence our core client-server orchestration and how we deploy and render code dynamically across the global Roblox ecosystem - Drive UX improvements through rigorous A/B testing and deep-dive analysis of experiment results - Collaborate with teams across Roblox to ensure a coherent user experience and technical designs that are scalable for long-term success You Have: - 8+ years of experience in software development - 8+ years of experience with web or app technologies (React, Typescript, Javascript) - Proven track record building and launching complex, consumer-facing features - Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, or other technical field is a plus You Are: - Passionate about users : You are sensitive to the needs of our users and strive to build the best possible experience for our community - Versatile : You possess a full-stack mindset and the flexibility to navigate other areas like backend or data infrastructure as needed to achieve project goals - Analytical: You tackle large, ambiguous problems systematically and thoroughly, ensuring solutions are robust and well-considered - Data-Curious: You are driven to understand the results of your work, diving into data to uncover hidden insights - Innovative : You craft creative long-term solutions and stay in touch with industry developments; - Team-oriented : You respect the ideas of others and are comfortable advocating for the right technical path. 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 $295,250 - $345,040 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.
Privacy and Security Counsel
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. We are looking for a Privacy & Security Counsel to join our Privacy & Security Legal team. This role is focused on legal security, and you will provide insights and guidance on a range of such issues from laws and regulations to incidents and policies. Role is based in our San Mateo, CA office on a hybrid model (Tuesday-Thursday) #LI-Hybrid You will: - SME on Law: Provide subject-matter expertise and guidance on the evolving global security and privacy legal landscape, including legislation, regulations, enforcement actions, and best practices, translating analysis into clear, concise, and actionable guidance to both legal and security teams. - Incident Response Engagement: Engage with the Detection and Response and Global Security teams during incidents. Provide legal guidance throughout the incident, including during verification, triage, containment, remediation, post-mortem, table-top exercises, counseling internal stakeholders throughout the incident lifecycle, reporting to regulators, and notifying customers to meet our global obligations. - Security Compliance Support: Own and deliver complex, cross-functional cybersecurity legal initiatives end-to-end (e.g., new regulatory regimes, major incident response improvements), with clear milestones, stakeholder alignment, and measurable outcomes. Continuously improve incident response policies and playbooks that meet the standards of applicable global data privacy and security laws. - Security Team Support: Embed within security pods as a trusted partner and go-to legal resource for regular expertise, insights, guidance, and support to different security teams, including Application Security, GRC, Privacy Engineering, Global Security, and Infrastructure/Platform teams, developing a working understanding of Roblox’s architecture, data flows, and operational constraints. - Cross-Functional Legal Advice: Provide subject matter expertise in privacy and security and support to cross-functional legal advocacy teams, including corporate, employment, compliance, policy, regulatory, product, privacy, and commercial. You have: - 5+ years of data security, data privacy, data protection and governance experience. - Expertise in US and global data security and protection laws and regulations. - Knowledge of security regulations and frameworks, such as GDPR, NIS2, CCPA, COPPA, CA SB 553, NIST CSF, and PCI. - Experience working with Information Security teams, including Incident Response, Application Security and Governance. - Experience with security incidents including, breaches, breach reporting to regulators, customer notifications. - Experience implementing global data protection and security requirements. - Training at a major national law firm; in-house experience a plus. - Active membership in at least one U.S. state bar; California Bar admission preferred. - Excellent business-oriented judgment. - Experience operating as a senior individual contributor in a fast-paced technology company, driving complex, cross-functional programs. - Proven track record of taking ambiguous, cross-functional projects from concept to delivery, using strong project management skills to drive accountability and hit deadlines. - Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to “speak the language of the business” (not the law firm) and tailor messaging to executives, engineers, and operations teams. - Working familiarity with large-scale, modern infrastructure (e.g., cloud platforms, microservices, observability, incident management tooling) sufficient to understand how technical architectures influence legal risk and incident response. 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 $211,760 - $252,210 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.
Senior Content Designer
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 Content Designer, you will play a crucial role in shaping the content strategy and UX writing for user-facing products with a focus on making everyone feel safe on Roblox and bringing our product’s voice to life. Working collaboratively with product managers, designers, and engineers, you’ll craft compelling narratives and user experiences across our platform. You'll develop cohesive, engaging content that improves our players' and creators' experiences. This role is focused on executing content design at the product level and building our content design systems. You’ll have the opportunity to work with cross-functional teams and advocate for the Roblox voice, making a real impact. You will: - Collaborate with cross-functional partners to create and refine UX content for our Safety products and features. - Ensure our products and features are valuable, understandable, and easy to use, drastically increasing our quality bar for craft and execution. - Contribute to building and maintaining content guidelines, ensuring consistency in voice and tone, terminology, and style across the platform. - Work closely with the design team to integrate content strategy, best practices, and systems throughout the product design process. - Define how we work. Drive team collaboration, culture, and process, working most closely with Research and product design throughout the design and development process. - Use empathy, logic, best practices, technical acumen, and data to inform content choices and recommendations. - Be adept at explaining those choices to cross-functional partners and documenting them for future use. - Become a trusted partner by communicating and demonstrating the value of content design and by delivering insights that demonstrate that value. - Use UX writing to improve the clarity, usability, and engagement of our products for players, parents, and creators. - Develop processes, frameworks, and patterns that streamline UX writing practices across teams. - Advocate for the importance of Content Design within the organization. - Contribute to the execution of top-notch UX in a fast-paced, innovative work environment full of passionate experts who get things done You have: - 5+ years' experience in content design, UX writing, content strategy, or a related field. - A strong portfolio showcasing a variety of content design work, including user interface copy, microcopy, and style guides. - Experience in providing content strategy for sensitive user experiences that require deep review by cross-functional partners from legal, civility, marketing, and localization perspectives. - Experience collaborating with and influencing a vast variety of cross-functional peers and stakeholders (e.g., product managers, data scientists, product designers, researchers, engineers, policy, localization, communications, and marketing). - A solid understanding of UX principles, information architecture, naming and taxonomies,and user-centered design. - Passion for our Roblox core values: respect the community, we are responsible, take the long view, and get stuff done. - Excellent communication skills and the ability to clearly present your work to stakeholders. - Bachelor's degree in English or another language, Communications, UX, HCI, or equivalent practical experience. - A proactive mindset with the ability to self-manage and succeed in a fast-paced, evolving environment. 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 $193,240 - $230,150 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.
Principal Core Systems Software Engineer - Game Engine (C++)
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 Engine Networking Team pulls the players together by ensuring the communication of the game state to all. As a Principal Engineer on this team you will help the players experience the game as a nearly synchronous world. The networking and asset loading team plays a key role in a smooth experience for the players. You will work in all areas of the game platform in your quest for real-time communication of every part of Roblox. You Will: - Lead engineers with 8+ years of industry experience - Understand the game networking with a passion for working with open source - Be experienced with asset loading, rendering, and networking coming from a Game Engine/Studio. (Desirable) - Be an amazing systems-level C++ programmer and be fascinated by the actual work the CPU does when you use smart pointers, templates, virtual functions, and blocks of memory, both structured and raw - Have a keen to each millisecond of the network exchanges: You know where the time goes and how to reduce the waste - Understand what happens on the operating system level when certain code is completed You Have: - Worked on the guts of a multi-player game engine, solving problems related to scale, performance, latency, and throughput in client/server environments. - Worked on a very large multithreaded distributed system that connects millions of users worldwide. - Worked on the devices Roblox supports - from desktop clients to mobile phone clients to console clients 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 $293,800 - $343,340 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.
Senior Data Scientist, Game Engine Simulation
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. WHY DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS? The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency and acumen of making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product verticals, we use this extensive tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products and measure impact on our community of players and developers. WHY GAME ENGINE AND DIGITAL MATTER The Digital Matter team, within the Engine organization, powers Roblox’s Game Engine Simulation capabilities. Digital Matter sits at the core of how Roblox worlds are built, experienced, and brought to life. Spanning Physics, Geometry, Rendering, and Interactivity, this team defines the fundamental systems that govern how worlds behave, look, and respond – making balls bounce, light scatter, meshes stream, avatars move, and experiences feel immersive across every device. As the Senior Data Scientist on this team, you will partner with engineers and product leaders to shape the technical foundation of the platform. Your work will directly influence how we simulate reality and empower creators to bend it – balancing physical realism with performance, scalability, and artistic control. You will drive data-informed decisions across core engine systems, defining and evolving top-line metrics for performance, stability, visual quality, scalability, and user experience. Your impact will span the entire stack – from physics simulation and mesh streaming (SLIM), to rendering pipelines and input systems – ensuring that engine innovations translate into measurable improvements in creator capability and player experience. Collaborating closely with engineering, product, and leadership, you will evaluate the impact of foundational engine changes, uncover performance bottlenecks, guide prioritization through rigorous experimentation, and surface new opportunities through dashboards, deep analysis, and strategic experimentation. In a team that builds the substrate of the platform, your work will help determine how the next generation of Roblox experiences looks, feels, and performs. You Will: - Define Success Metrics for Digital Matter – Establish key performance indicators for Physics, Geometry, Rendering, and Interactivity, such as performance, latency, stability, memory usage, scalability, and quality metrics that directly impact creators and players. - Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration – Partner closely with Engineering, Product, Technical Program Managers, and teams across Roblox (e.g., Creator tools, Growth, Infrastructure, and Economy) to explore new opportunities and navigate ambiguous problem spaces. - Transform & Visualize Data for Actionable Insights – Access and process raw telemetry data, build robust analytics pipelines, and deliver clear insights through dashboards, reporting, and exploratory analysis using modern data tooling. - Design Experiments & Apply Causal Inference – Lead A/B experiments and causal analyses to measure the impact of features, infrastructure improvements, and feature launches to ensure data-driven decision-making. - Shape the Future of Roblox’s Core Simulation & Interaction Layer – Influence how foundational systems evolve, ensuring the team delivers scalable, high-performance, and creator-empowering technology that powers the platform. You Have: - Advanced degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Applied Math, Economics, Engineering or other related quantitative fields, or equivalent experience. - 4+ years of relevant industry experience; background in game engine, system performance is a plus. - Data engineering experience. e.g. telemetry logging, data pipeline building, dashboard design - Experience applying creative first-principles reasoning to solve ambiguous problems - Experience leading and presenting analytics results and enjoy data storytelling to influence engineering teams and leaders - Experience driving an area as an individual contributor and thought leader Nice to Have: - Domain expertise in game engines, simulation systems or related technologies - Experience in game development or working closely with real-time interactive systems - Track record of driving large-scale, cross-functional initiatives across multiple teams or organizations - Strong engineering background with hands-on technical depth LI-FO1 LI-Onsite 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 $221,380 - $263,670 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.
Senior Finance Business Partner, G&A
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 an early Senior Business Partner on our Finance team, you will build the Business Finance function and serve as a strategic partner to G&A leadership. This cross-functional role involves collaborating with Legal, Public Policy, Finance, and Facilities to drive financial planning and forecasting. We are looking for an analytical individual who can identify efficiencies, fill critical gaps, and define finance partnership at scale. You will: - Business Partnership: Develop and maintain business partnerships with leadership across Legal, Public Policy, Civility, Finance, Facilities, CorpEng, and InfoSec. Partner with the business teams from a strategic and operational standpoint, becoming a strategic advisor and expert on risks and opportunities for the function and finance leadership - Planning and Forecasting: Manage the G&A function’s annual, quarterly, monthly, and long-range planning (LRP) output. Provide financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting support including variance analysis, operational support, and model ownership. - Strategy & Ops: Provide analytic support and develop actionable insights that will influence decision makers to allocate resources more effectively. Identify and drive alignment on performance indicators in order to drive financial ownership, visibility, and surface key operational insights. Develop reporting in partnership with stakeholders to deliver presentations, influence decisions, and drive alignment on key processes. Navigate and drive consensus on investment decisions or requests from the business with finance leadership or corporate financial objectives. Develop opinions and recommendations for the business to increase efficiency. - Internal Operations: Partner with Corporate FP&A team to mature current internal financial operations, processes, and tools. Maintain and improve data integrity, scalability, reporting and analytical depth. - Team Development: This role will manage 1 analyst and will be required to function as a player-coach with a strong hands-on work ethic to lead and improve business partnerships. We are a flat and lean finance team and there are expectations to operate as an individual contributor. - Report to Senior Director, Finance You have: - Bachelor’s degree; major in economics or quantitative field (math, science, finance/accounting), or have equivalent practical experience - 8+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance or other strategic finance roles. Public company experience is a plus - Strong collaboration and partnership skills; experience managing G&A functions or other functional business partnerships a plus - Experience multiple projects and stakeholders in a cross-functional environment - Experience developing analytical frameworks to evaluate investment decisions and communicating financial and strategic concepts to senior leadership - Highly organized with strong attention to detail with a dedication to data integrity. - Experience developing / automating management reports on financial and operational performance. Enthusiastic about the future of AI in Finance and interested in leveraging new tools to increase efficiency. - Proficient with Excel and slides - Extensive experience with Pigment or other relevant ERP solutions (e.g. Anaplan) a strong plus - Experience with large datasets, SQL, Tableau and other BI tools a strong plus 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 $231,940 - $276,250 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.
Principal Software Engineer, App Performance
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 Consumer App Foundation team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to improve Roblox client performance across our supported platforms. You’ll work primarily in cross-platform C++ Roblox game engine code, partnering with teams across the company to identify bottlenecks, ship measurable improvements, and prevent regressions over time. Our team owns the end-to-end performance of Roblox. We tackle the platform’s most difficult technical constraints—from speed and responsiveness to efficiency and stability —ensuring a high-performance experience across all of our devices and platforms: mobile, desktop, and console. You will: - Conduct research, create and drive execution of roadmaps aimed to improve efficiency of Roblox on target platforms - Design novel solutions to optimize performance and computing resources usage of Roblox client app. - Profile and diagnose real-world performance on iOS or Android to identify bottlenecks, validate wins, and prevent regressions using platform tooling. - Build and productionize repeatable benchmarks/experiments, CI/CD automation to catch regressions early, dashboards/alerts with actionable signals. - Work with stakeholders across Engineering, Product, and Design to align on priorities, tradeoffs, and rollout plans; ensure performance improvements support the user experience. - Deliver improvements and guardrails that scale across mobile, desktop, and console, with informed tradeoffs for mobile constraints. You have: - 10+ years of experience: working in C++ with a track record of writing high-quality, performant code in large and complex codebases. - Comfort with ambiguity: able to dive into unfamiliar codebases, unblock yourself, and take projects from greenfield/MVP → production-grade. - Mobile performance expertise: hands-on experience improving performance on mobile platforms (iOS and/or Android), including on-device profiling to find and measure opportunities. Systems thinking: ability to build systems that work and keep on working reliably (measurement, monitoring, regression prevention). 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 $295,250 - $345,040 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.
Distinguished Machine Learning Engineer - Safety
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 Distinguished Machine Learning Engineer/Technical Director in the Safety organization at Roblox, you will drive the overall technical vision and execution for all machine learning initiatives focused on maintaining the safety and civility of our users. Our industry-leading safety features ensure Roblox remains a safe and inclusive environment for our community to express themselves creatively and share experiences without fear. The Safety org is the reason why Roblox is the safest place on the internet, protecting users You will provide technical leadership on AI/ML efforts for Trust and Safety as the Roblox platform scales to serve different age groups and geographic locations. You Will: - Own the technical direction and implementation of machine learning solutions for safety-related systems - Lead and mentor other engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and inclusivity - Break down long-term product requirements into iterative deliverable stages, ensuring continuous improvement - Craft and build large-scale machine learning models with billions of parameters, ensuring production-readiness - Facilitate challenging technical decisions across multiple teams, demonstrating empathy and finding common understanding - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and prioritize the machine learning roadmap You Have: - 10+ years of experience delivering and improving large-scale machine learning systems - Proven expertise in creating and launching machine learning models from scratch - Ability to handle data problems, train models with large datasets, and ensure system reliability at scale - Experience with distributed systems, data architecture, and model extraction - Strong programming skills and willingness to be hands-on as necessary - Prior experience in a leadership role with a technical focus, including mentoring engineering teams You Are: - A creative and strategic problem-solver, able to simplify complex issues while integrating fresh ideas - Committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported - Passionate about maintaining deep technical expertise while meeting end-user needs - Knowledgeable about cutting-edge ML technologies, including LLMs - Experienced in NLP or computer vision (preferred) - Familiar with maintaining and evolving safety systems at scale (preferred) 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 $397,460 - $455,720 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.
Learning Design & Development Associate
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. 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 are building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine how people come together from anywhere in the world, on any device, and connect a billion people with optimism and civility. The Learning Design & Development Associate helps Roblox employees grow, develop, and succeed as Builders. Reporting to the People Experience & Learning Manager, this role designs, develops, and facilitates learning experiences that enable employees to build knowledge, develop skills, and apply what they learn in their work. This role will initially support design and facilitation in three core areas: new hire programs that help people land well and connect to Roblox culture, career development initiatives that help employees build skills, and scaled learning experiences that reach the organization broadly. Through both thoughtful design and hands-on delivery, this role ensures learning is clear, engaging, and practical for the people participating in it. We are looking for someone who brings strong instructional design fundamentals and a practical approach to building learning experiences that work in real organizational contexts. You enjoy translating complex information into clear instructional structures, designing activities that reinforce key concepts, and producing materials that support both learners and facilitators. Because Roblox is a platform built around creativity, community, and user-generated experiences, we are particularly interested in candidates who are energized by environments where people create, build, and share experiences with one another. You Will: - Design curricula and learning materials that support onboarding, professional skills development, and role-specific capability building. - Translate complex subject matter into clear, structured instructional experiences, program outlines, and learning objectives. - Create high-quality learning assets including facilitator guides, presentation materials, participant workbooks, and digital modules. - Structure interactive activities such as discussions, simulations, and case-based learning to ensure practical knowledge application. - Partner with subject matter experts to shape specialized organizational knowledge into well-organized and effective learning structures. - Lead in-person and virtual sessions , delivering new hire experiences, workshops and cohort-based programs for groups across the organization. - Create psychologically safe environments that encourage employee participation, reflection, and the practice of new skills. - Guide learners through exercises and discussions , adapting your facilitation style and pacing to meet the needs of different groups. - Support consistent program delivery by modeling best practices in execution, support, and coordination You Have: Required Qualifications - 3+ years of experience in instructional design, learning and development, training, facilitation, or a related professional field. - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Instructional Design, Learning Sciences, Educational Technology, Organizational Psychology, Adult Learning, or a related field. - Demonstrated experience developing learning materials , with a portfolio showing your ability to translate complex topics into clear content. - Comfort facilitating interactive sessions , including leading group discussions and guiding learners through practice activities. - Strong communication skills , with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners and subject matter experts. - The ability to be flexible and quickly adapt in a fast-paced environment where learning needs and organizational priorities evolve. Preferred Qualifications - Master’s degree in Learning Sciences, Instructional Design, Adult Learning, Organizational Psychology, or a related field. - A passion for Roblox and our community , including an interest in creator ecosystems and interactive digital experiences. - Familiarity with Roblox or curiosity about how creator-driven platforms enable communities to build, share, and collaborate. - Familiarity with instructional frameworks such as ADDIE, SAM, or similar systematic approaches to content creation. - Experience with digital tools , including e-learning development software (Articulate, Captivate, etc.) and learning management systems (LMS). - Experience in tech environments , specifically designing or facilitating for corporate or technology-focused audiences. You Are: - An emerging learning designer. You’re developing your instructional design craft and enjoy organizing information into structured learning experiences. - A confident and growing facilitator. You are comfortable leading group discussions and guiding learners through activities, and you’re motivated to continue strengthening your facilitation skills. - Learner-centered. You think about the learner’s perspective and design experiences that are engaging, accessible, and meaningful. - A translator of expertise. You can work with subject matter experts to transform complex topics into clear instructional content. - Collaborative and curious. You enjoy working across teams, learning from others, and continually improving your skills as a learning professional. - Detail-oriented and thoughtful. You take pride in creating high-quality learning materials that help people learn effectively. - Excited about creator-driven platforms and communities. You are energized by environments like Roblox where people build, share, and collaborate through interactive experiences and you are motivated by supporting the people who make those ecosystems possible. 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 $126,260 - $162,000 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.
Product Marketing Manager, Ads
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. Roblox is seeking a Product Marketing Manager for our Ads and Brands product team. As the PMM, you will partner closely with the product owners for our advertising products that allow brand advertisers to reach the next generation on Roblox and our community of developers to earn from publishing ads. You will be a core part of leading the strategy and go-to-market execution for these solutions while working closely with our Brand Partnerships team that interfaces with our brand and agency partners. You will be instrumental in crafting and driving a winning strategy for Roblox's advertising ambitions, significantly contributing to the company's growth and market leadership. You Will: - Lead the launch process and drive the go-to-market (GTM) strategy, messaging, content creation and positioning for Ads and Brands Group products and policies. - Develop compelling, evergreen product content that educates and inspires brands to advertise on our platform across our business-focused channels, sales enablement materials and industry events. - Stay on the pulse of the marketing and advertising industry and nurture and develop our marketing and advertising industry partnerships. - Track, analyze, and report on marketing campaigns and content performance, providing insights and recommendations for optimization. - Foster deep cross-collaboration between Brand Partnerships, Engineering, Product Management, Product Marketing, Integrated Marketing, Communications, Events and Creative teams. Become a trusted advisor to these teams. - Report to the Director of Product and Business Marketing You Have: - 6+ years product marketing experience with a global technology and advertising platform, with a preference for experience in advertising, commerce and selling to large brand advertisers. - Deep experience partnering with sales teams from leading product education and objection handling to gathering actionable product insights from our sales team and end customer. - Proficient in messaging, positioning and marketing/content strategy for a large brand and agency audience. Collaborative, perpetually curious with an extremely high-level of customer focus. - Experience leading omnichannel marketing strategies. Experience driving deep internal partnerships, cross-functional alignment and working with stakeholders at all levels. - Ability to identify gaps and opportunities and influence relevant teams and executive leadership to reach resolution. - Experience presenting at all levels of the organization, including executive leadership. - Passionate about supporting new business models and building an advertising business. 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 $217,130 - $263,710 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.
Principal Software Engineer - Asset Loading
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 Engine Networking Team pulls the players together by ensuring the communication of the game state to all. As a Principal Engineer on this team you will help the players experience the game as a nearly synchronous world. The networking and asset loading team plays a key role in a smooth experience for the players. You will work in all areas of the game platform in your quest for real-time communication of every part of Roblox. You Will: - Lead engineers with 8+ years of industry experience - Understand the game networking with a passion for working with open source - Be experienced with asset loading, rendering, and networking coming from a Game Engine/Studio. (Desirable) - Be an amazing systems-level C++ programmer and be fascinated by the actual work the CPU does when you use smart pointers, templates, virtual functions, and blocks of memory, both structured and raw - Have a keen to each millisecond of the network exchanges: You know where the time goes and how to reduce the waste - Understand what happens on the operating system level when certain code is completed You Have: - Worked on the guts of a multi-player game engine, solving problems related to scale, performance, latency, and throughput in client/server environments. - Worked on a very large multithreaded distributed system that connects millions of users worldwide. - Worked on the devices Roblox supports - from desktop clients to mobile phone clients to console clients 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 $293,800 - $343,340 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.
[2026] Software Engineer, Game Developer
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 Software Engineer in our Creator group, you will push the envelope of what’s possible in top and emerging experiences on Roblox. You’ll focus on prototyping, deploying solutions with external development studios and iterating with cutting edge engine features. You’ll ultimately have a strong influence on our engine roadmap and APIs. You Will: - Serve as a trusted technical advisor to external game development studios, helping them optimize performance, scalability, and quality. - Work deeply on prototypes that push the boundaries of what our engine can support, contributing large amounts of Luau code to demonstrate the feasibility of various game modes. - Identify, articulate, and advocate for core engine, performance and debugging tooling projects. - Collaborate closely with other engineers in the Solutions team, the core engine and Roblox Studio teams to shape the future of the platform. - Create demos and technical tutorials that serve as production-ready blueprints for the broader developer community. You Have: - Pursuing or possess an undergraduate/graduate degree in computer science, engineering, a related technical field, or an equivalent practical experience - Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Lua, Luau, C# or C++ - Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into understandable and compelling guides and documentation - Roblox development experience is required - A track record of quality game(s) on the Roblox platform is required You may redact age, date of birth, and dates of attendance/graduation from your resume if you prefer. 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 $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.
Principal Software Engineer, Engine UI
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 Principal Software Engineer for Engine UI on Roblox, you will work on our state-of-the-art game engine, building out User Interface capability across all of Roblox. This position enables our game developers to unlock, accelerate, and promote the creation of high quality, performant UI that empowers meaningful interaction. You will: - Develop and maintain our C++ engine code that powers the foundational UI features in the world’s most popular games, as well as the Roblox App and Roblox Studio - Author and review API proposals to expose UI capability to Luau, our fast, Lua-derived scripting language that powers user-generated creation - Partner closely with our game developer community to help achieve their creative vision, address concerns, and resolve bugs - Innovate upon our text rendering and layout pipelines used by Roblox Developers and Players millions of times a day, interacting with our localization systems to provide engaging experiences worldwide - Enhance and define layout schemes that dynamically adapt UI from mobile to 8k monitors, and even to VR - Profile and write performant C++ code, creating scalable systems that drive feature-rich experiences, delivering high-quality, snappy UI across high end and low end devices - Have fun learning what makes Roblox an amazing platform and place to work, while contributing to industry leading technologies You have: - 8+ years of professional development experience in C++ or related languages - A performance-oriented mindset, being familiar with profilers (such as VTune, μProf, etc.), locating performance bottlenecks, and using data to measure the impact of your changes - Previously worked in areas like browser/layout engines, game engines or other UI framework development systems. Examples: WebKit, Chromium, Blink, Gecko, Unreal, Unity, UIKit, Android UI Framework, Qt, Yoga, React, FreeType, HarfBuzz, or your own UI framework project! (Preferred) - Written systems that can be intuitively understood by developers of varying disciplines, such as engineers, game designers, and UI designers - Familiarity with systems level 3D math, pointers, templates and memory management - Some familiarity with graphics concepts and APIs such as Vulkan, Metal, and/or DirectX - Worked on a variety of platforms like gaming consoles and/or mobile devices. (Preferred) 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 $293,800 - $343,340 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.
Developer Engagement Representative - LATAM (Part-Time Contract)
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 Developer Relations team at Roblox is looking for new team members for our ever-growing International Developer Engagement Team. We're looking for someone who is passionate about Roblox and growing the local creator community in their region. This is a 6-month part-time contract position. You will: - Develop an understanding of Roblox moderation rules and guidelines - Celebrate support and engage with upcoming and current international developers on the platform - Identify and engage with potential partners within the developer community to build and maintain a strong partnership pipeline - Plan and execute online and offline community events, workshops, and initiatives that inspire and connect developers - Support translation and localization efforts to ensure programs, communications, and resources are accessible and culturally relevant to global audiences. You have: - Great understanding of Roblox and the Roblox community - Good standing regarding Roblox moderation history - Excellent speaking and writing skills in both English and Spanish - Believe that helping the community is crucial to the success of the company - Motivated to help empower and encourage our developer community - Team-focused and experienced in cross-team collaboration - Knowledgeable, with an understanding of community processes, methodologies and best practices - Availability to support and attend online and offline community events You are: - Fluent in both English and Spanish - Bonus points if you are also fluent in Portuguese - Physically located within LATAM 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.
Data Center Engineer
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 Data Center Engineer , you'll help us scale our Core/Edge Data Centers and hardware infrastructure at a time of incredible growth for our business. At Roblox, you'll have boundless opportunities to shape the future of the Imagination Platform™ and demonstrate your passion for delivering thoughtful solutions in front of a global audience. If you know what it takes to build and operate hardware infrastructure that can sustain millions of concurrent players year-round and you take play as seriously as we do, you'll fit right into our highly experienced and ever-expanding engineering team. You will report to the Technical Lead Data Center Engineer. You will: - Develop and maintain the Core/Edge Data Center and hardware infrastructure to meet the large scale and real-time requirements of our Imagination Platform™ to ensure our community has an awesome experience anywhere in the world. This includes all aspects of the server, network infrastructure, power, and environmental life cycles. - Own efforts to track and mitigate systemic issues preventing hosts from returning to service. - Identify and solve critical problems and prevent them from re-occurring via root cause analysis and giving recommendations to improve automation. - Coordinate with peers to establish and uphold best practices related to breakfix, install, decom and all other aspects of datacenter operations. - Create, influence, and improve the development platform, infrastructure, standards (Runbooks, SOPs, MOPs), and methods to ensure the goal of scalability and high availability can be achieved. - Leverage partnerships across teams to automate maintenance actions which do not require physical intervention. - Encourage an environment of continuous improvement and learning among engineering staff. - Assist in coordinating vendors and ensuring quality of outsourced projects - Participate in the on-call rotation for our critical infrastructure. - Travel: International and Domestic travel may be required 25% of the time and up to 50% of time depending on needs of the business. You have: - At minimum 6+ years of experience working in large-scale Data Center Infrastructure environments and experience planning, executing, and documenting repairs in the server and networking domains. - Extensive experience installing, monitoring, and maintaining server and network equipment. This includes brand new server and network provisioning. - In-depth knowledge of data center environments, servers, and network equipment. - Proven experience executing on multiple tasks simultaneously. - You have installed various equipment that commonly resides in the data center environment and are able to lift 75 pounds occasionally. You are: - Someone who is ready for action wielding a wealth of server and network hardware troubleshooting knowledge to support Roblox’s systems. - Excited about getting in front of complex problems, and can effectively organize your work to overcome emergent high-impact issues. - Someone who enjoys building processes and procedures for the day to execute our workload and for developing new capabilities as a team. - Someone who asks the right questions to solve issues within your expertise and you use data to test your theories. You are able to formulate and identify problems, generate and evaluate a variety of solutions (some of which are novel), and implement the best one(s). - Someone who is committed to demonstrating professionalism in all interactions with partners both inside and outside Roblox to ensure continued success in cross-functional initiatives. You are able to foster trust and uphold the reputation of the team and company. For roles that are based at our data center in Elk Grove Village, IL : 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 $134,260 - $162,950 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.
Marketing Manager, Live Content, Short-Term
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. We’re looking for a Live Content Marketing Manager (Contractor) to help scale the editorial strategy and programming for Roblox’s growing live content ecosystem. This role will focus on developing and executing editorial storytelling across social content, podcasts, and livestreams helping ensure our live programming delivers meaningful narratives for creators, developers, parents, and the broader Roblox community. This role will partner closely with the Product Marketing, Communications, and Creative teams to plan compelling episodes, shape editorial narratives, and translate longform content into a broader marketing flywheel. This is a Short Term position for 6 months with potential for a Full-Time Opportunity. Role Reports to Director of Corporate Marketing and is based in our San Mateo, CA office. You Will: - Develop content for live content programming across episodic video on social media, podcasts, and livestreams. - Write run-of-shows, interview questions, and content briefs for live content series. - Partner with hosts, leaders, and creators to shape compelling conversations. - Identify moments tied to product launches, creator stories, and cultural moments. - Partner cross-functionally across marketing and communications to ensure editorial themes align with company priorities. You Have: - 6+ years experience in content marketing, editorial programming, or podcasting specializing in social-first content for digital-native audiences. - Strong editorial instincts and ability to develop compelling narratives for long-form and short-form video, social, and live formats. - Experience writing show outlines, run-of-show documents, and interview guides. - Familiarity with podcast ecosystems, and short-form video distribution. - Ability to collaborate across marketing, creative, and production teams. You Are - A storyteller who understands how live conversations turn into cultural moments. - Curious about creators, technology, and how communities form around digital platforms. - Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment where editorial ideas evolve quickly. - A collaborative partner who can bring clarity and structure to creative production. 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 hourly rate could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Please note that not all benefits shown on this page are applicable to this temporary position. Monthly Salary Range $12,657.50 - $15,945 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.
Data Center Asset Management Analyst
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 Data Center Asset Management Analyst, you are the custodian of our physical foundation. You will ensure that every piece of hardware, from the moment it’s ordered to the day it’s decommissioned, is tracked with 100% accuracy. Your work provides the data integrity required for Roblox to scale reliably, stay compliant, and make smart financial decisions. You will: - Facilitate the end-to-end journey of hardware (servers, storage, network gear, racks). You’ll track and document data center asset receipts, moves, adds, changes, and decommissioning. - Manage and maintain the metadata, lineage, and lifecycle data integrity of our physical assets. You’ll ensure these are accurate and consistent across systems. - Conduct regular audits and reconciliations between physical inventory and system records. You don’t just find discrepancies, you fix the root cause. - Create and maintain comprehensive data dictionaries to ensure everyone at Roblox is speaking the same "asset language". You’ll establish and maintain data governance standards, making it easy for business users to discover the data they need by documenting definitions, sources, and business rules. - Partner with Software Engineers to automate data collection and help cross-functional teams adopt best practices for data management. - Design dashboards and reports that give leadership visibility into asset status, hardware aging, and inventory accuracy. You have: - 3–5+ years in data center asset management, infrastructure operations, or complex inventory management. - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Information Systems, Computer Science, Statistics, Business Analytics - Experience working with large-scale asset management systems or CMDB platforms. - You are a "spreadsheet power-user" and have a solid grasp of SQL (or a strong desire to use it) to query datasets and build dashboards. - You understand that in infrastructure, a single misplaced serial number can lead to a million-dollar headache. You have excellent organizational and analytical skills. - You can move seamlessly between talking hardware with Operations, depreciation with Accounting, and data standards with Software Engineering. 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 $159,850 - $193,930 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.
Senior Finance Systems Associate
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. Roblox is in search of a Senior Finance Systems Associate to develop, administer, and support its financial modeling, planning, and reporting system. In this role, you will collaborate closely with the Finance Systems Lead, FP&A team and cross-functional teams across Engineering, People, Finance Data, Accounting, and Business Operations Strategy. We are seeking an individual passionate about constructing complex financial models. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a commitment to efficiency, prioritize data integrity, and strive to provide systematic and scalable solutions to eliminate reliance on spreadsheets and manual workflows. This full time position is based in San Mateo, CA (hybrid structure with 3 days onsite per week) and will report to the Finance Systems Lead. You Will: - Architect and deploy sophisticated multi-dimensional models within Enterprise Planning and Management solution, Pigment, engineering for maximum scalability and computational efficiency. - Optimize existing model performance and calculation efficiency while ensuring seamless alignment with evolving business logic and stakeholder needs. - Manage end-to-end user access provisioning, implementing strict access controls to ensure reporting consistency. - Champion data integrity and dimensional standardization, prioritizing modular model designs that minimize technical debt. - Create intuitive dashboards and executive-level reporting frameworks that translate complex data into actionable strategic insights. - Drive organizational system adoption by developing a comprehensive set of training materials. Tailor enablement strategies to diverse end user proficiency levels, ensuring both technical “superuser” builders and non-technical “general” stakeholders are well supported to achieve operational goals. - Willingness to directly take on core finance duties, such as operating as a Finance Business Partner to gain deep domain empathy; leveraging this experience to build highly practical, user-centric financial models that solve core business challenges. - Experiment with emerging AI solutions to automate workflows, improve accuracy, and increase the velocity and scalability of Finance operations. You Have: - Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Engineering, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent professional experience). - Systems Expertise: 5+ years of experience architecting and managing major Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions—specifically Pigment, Anaplan, Adaptive, or Hyperion. - Industry Context: Proven track record in high-growth SaaS environments or specialized technology consulting. - Preferred Certifications: Direct experience with Pigment or Anaplan Level 3 Certification (and above) is highly prioritized. - Technical Toolkit: Proficiency in data querying languages (SQL, Python) to manipulate complex datasets is a plus. - Experience with modern data visualization platforms (Hex, Tableau) to translate data into actionable business insights is a plus. - Expertise in Google Suite/Sheets for collaborative modeling and reporting. - Domain Knowledge: Deep foundational understanding of financial processes, accounting principles, and integrated systems. You Are: - A fast-learning individual who identifies operational gaps and takes end-to-end ownership of implementing creative, scalable solutions. - A highly organized self-starter with a proven track record of meeting deadlines and executing complex projects independently. - Committed to continuous growth, leveraging deep systems expertise and emerging AI tools to architect more efficient, future-ready workflows. - Adept at navigating high-stakes stakeholder communications to build consensus and drive project buy-in. - A Data Integrity Champion. The ideal candidate is rigorous with precision and committed to maintaining a high standard for our centralized data architecture within our application data hub and spoke applications. 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 $156,020 - $191,120 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.
Principal/Senior Machine Learning Scientist - Search and Discovery
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. With Roblox’s daily active users growing at a record pace, we are seeking experienced machine learning researchers who thrive on solving complex challenges and designing scalable, ground breaking solutions. In this role, you will innovate on LLMs, VLMs, autoregressive models, or other large models for user understanding, content understanding, recommendation, and agentic search. Your work will lay the foundation for personalizing user experiences, enhancing engagement and retention, and driving growth within the creator ecosystem. In search and discovery, you will contribute to the core systems that enable users to discover and interact with experiences across Roblox. These systems drive exploration and engagement across all surfaces, helping users find relevant and exciting content. Looking ahead, our team aims to innovate further by developing auto-generated summaries, images, and videos from experience content to improve discoverability and inspire user exploration. Our mission is to connect a billion users with the best content and connections at the right time, tackling diverse challenges in advertising, search, and discovery at an unprecedented scale. Join us and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Roblox’s search and discovery. You Will: - Design and implement the machine learning solutions that power agentic search and discovery systems to drive Roblox content distribution. - Design and implement large scale recommendation models. - Design and implement LLMs and VLMs for visual understanding and natural language understanding. - Balance researching new technologies with a practical approach to integrate research efforts into the Roblox products. - Collaborate with other teams within Roblox to make sure we are building products with a community first approach. - Communicate with the industry and communities where applicable and be ambassador for Roblox. You have: - You have 7+ (for principal) or 4+ (for senior) years of experience designing and building scalable machine learning solutions. Experienced with transformer based model training, inference, and product integration. Break down product requirements into iterative deliverable stages. - You have a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related discipline or equivalent experience. - You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical decisions across multiple teams and organizations. - While deeply technical, you always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers. - A creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems. You simplify the complex. You bring in fresh ideas from new places. 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 $278,530 - $345,040 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.
Senior Product Designer, Agentic Data Experience
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. At Roblox, the Infrastructure team builds the highly scalable, reliable platforms that power immersive experiences for millions of users globally. As a Senior Product Designer, Agentic Data Experience, you will shape and scale the next generation of our internal data platform. You won't just be designing dashboards; you will be pioneering intuitive, self-service tools and AI-assisted workflows that enable our engineering teams to seamlessly manage massive data analytics and machine learning environments. You’ll partner deeply with product managers and backend engineers to understand highly technical needs, translating dense infrastructure primitives into elegant, unified experiences from discovery through launch. Your work will empower our internal teams to move with speed and confidence, reducing their cognitive load through intelligent, agentic workflows. Crucially, you will bring an uncompromising level of design craft to the enterprise layer - proving that the world's most powerful internal platforms can also be beautifully executed and intuitive. You have a systematic approach to design, a proven ability to simplify the complex, and a passion for defining new AI-driven interaction patterns. You thrive in the space where deep technical empathy meets high-fidelity execution. You will: - Define the product experience for Data at Roblox: Define the tools and products that Roblox Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and Machine Learning Engineers use to do their job every day. - Pioneer the "Agentic Experience" (AX) for Data Design intuitive, LLM-powered interfaces that transform how engineers interact with complex data and compute primitives - moving us from reactive dashboards to proactive, intelligent systems. - Transform highly technical domains: Lead the end-to-end UX design for our massive Analytical Data and Machine Learning platforms, turning deep, backend complexity into frictionless, self-service workflows. - Unify the developer ecosystem: Audit and elevate a landscape of fragmented developer tools, combining them into a cohesive, beautifully crafted platform that engineers actually want to use. - Bridge design and engineering: Partner closely with product managers and backend infrastructure engineers, navigating deep technical constraints without ever compromising on user experience or design fidelity. - Set the gold standard for craft: Define and enforce an uncompromising quality bar for usability, interaction design, and visual polish within the enterprise layer, proving that internal tools deserve consumer-grade care. You have: - 5+ years of product design experience, with a focus on solving complex, systems-level problems in highly technical environments. - Domain expertise in data analytics, machine learning, cloud infrastructure, or developer tooling. You are comfortable diving into backend engineering concepts and translating them into user-friendly experiences. - Experience in AI/LLM design, with a background in defining user interfaces for agentic workflows, AI assistants, or intelligent automation. You understand how to design for user trust and control in an AI-driven product. - Expert-level command of modern design stacks. You have high fluency in complex Figma environments (libraries, tokens, file architecture) and seamlessly integrate AI-augmented workflows into your practice. You leverage generative tools as a force multiplier to accelerate iteration, amplify productivity, and elevate your final craft. Using this velocity, you define and enforce an uncompromising quality bar for usability, interaction design, and visual polish within the enterprise layer, proving that internal tools deserve consumer-grade care. - A profound care for the final product. You possess an obsessive dedication to craft, sweating the smallest details all the way through to production. You believe that every pixel matters, and you refuse to stop refining until the coded experience feels inevitable, effortless, and beautifully resolved. You are: - Strategic and systematic: You look beyond the immediate feature request and see the broader ecosystem, capable of building scalable design systems that anticipate future platform needs. - Resilient in ambiguity: You are comfortable pioneering new ground (like Agentic UX) where established patterns don't exist yet, turning complex, undefined problems into clear, actionable design strategies. - A collaborative influencer: You naturally build trust with highly technical partners, gracefully negotiating constraints while keeping the user experience at the absolute center of the conversation. 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 $214,710 - $255,720 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.
[2026] Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI Platform - PhD Early Career
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 Foundation AI Group is on a mission to establish Roblox as the standard for 3D foundational models (3DFMs), democratizing creation by making it simple for anyone to generate high-quality, immersive 3D experiences using AI. The AI Platform team is a foundational part of this vision, supporting hundreds of ML use cases and billions of inferences daily across Discovery, Safety, Engine, and more. We are seeking exceptional PhD new graduates to drive innovation across three critical areas: AI Platform, Distributed Inference Systems, and Generative AI Information Retrieval. You Will As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the AI Platform team, you will be a key contributor to building the cutting-edge systems that power AI at Roblox. You will focus on one of three high-impact tracks: Track 1: AI Platform Projects - Pioneer next-generation AI tooling to enhance the efficiency, cost, and usability of ML@Roblox. - Build and maintain core platform components: Serving Layer, Model Registry, Pipeline Orchestrator, and Training/Inference control planes. - Design great developer experiences (paved-road templates, tooling, visualizations) to reduce time-to-production and ensure foundational AI systems are scalable and reliable. You Have - Possessing or pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related technical field, with a thesis aligned to Roblox’s research areas. - Experience with high performance distributed systems, ML Infrastructure, LLM fine tuning/RL, Information Retrieval and Gen AI context generation. - Expertise in one or more of the following key areas: - AI/ML Platform Data stores - Features stores, Vector DBs and Knowledge Graphs. - LLMs - Fine tuning, Safety. - Agentic systems - Agent evaluation, context engineering. - Experience building agentic applications with context for real world applications. - Collaborative mindset and experience integrating and deploying optimized models with cross-functional teams, including data scientists and software engineers. - Experience with graph databases and large-scale GNNs (Graph Neural Networks) - Experience working with Kubernetes - Experience working with one or more cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) - Experience working with high availability systems - Experience working with ML models, LLMs or other AI systems You may redact age, date of birth, and dates of attendance/graduation from your resume if you prefer. As you apply, you can find more information about our process by signing up for Speak_. You'll gain access to our practice assessment, comprehensive guides, FAQs, and modules designed to help you ace the hiring process. 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 $195,780 - $242,100 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.
Principal Software Engineer - Creator Collaboration
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. Roblox Studio is a world-class cloud based IDE that facilitates instant synchronization between game developers using our flagship Team Create product. As a Principal Engineer with the Collaboration team, you will be reporting to the engineering manager, leading the architecture, design, and communication primitives on Roblox Studio to develop software which allows larger and better collaboration between teams of developers and artists in the Roblox community. You will also lead the design and development of Roblox Studio and the cloud services it offers. The ideal candidate has C++ and backend experience on large scale systems, enjoys solving complex software problems and has a passion for mentoring other engineers on the team. We believe that collaboration and large teams are the future of building one’s imagination on Roblox and you will be designing and building features which unlock that vision. Join us in our mission to make collaboration development in the metaverse performant, social and most of all fun! You Will: - Plan and deliver complex technical features E2E in our game engine and in the Studio UI that will allow developers to grow in our community - Establish the foundational architecture and technical direction that will enable Studio to keep expanding its capabilities - Work cross functionally, across teams and technology platforms to deliver high quality and amazing user functionality - Lead by example and mentor engineers to implement technological best practices, patterns, and strategies - Improve the product quality by fostering automation testing - Participate in building the world's best professional application for massively multiplayer game development You have: - Experience : you have at least 8+ years experience and you've worked on deep and challenging problems with large scale systems along with experience in C++ codebases. You hold a BS or MS in Computer Science, or have equivalent practical experience. - Knowledge: Building highly available and scalable systems are your forte - Hands-on ability: Experience with microsystem architecture, multithreading and have an understanding of networking primitives. Ability to deliver end to end and bring features from vision to life. Commanding grasp of what it takes to build performant user flows - Responsibility : you build systems that work and keep on working reliably. You are rigorous in handling potential failure cases, and diligent in automated testing - Curiosity : you want to learn, and stay up-to-date on technology developments You Are: - Familiar how version control systems work under the hood is a plus - Familiar with file storage systems or network protocols - Familiar with the internals of database systems, is also a plus 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 $293,800 - $343,340 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.
Principal Software Engineer - Game Engine Systems
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 Engine Networking Team pulls the players together by ensuring the communication of the game state to all. As a Principal Engineer on this team you will help the players experience the game as a nearly synchronous world. The networking and asset loading team plays a key role in a smooth experience for the players. You will work in all areas of the game platform in your quest for real-time communication of every part of Roblox. You Will: - Lead engineers with 8+ years of industry experience - Understand the game networking with a passion for working with open source - Be experienced with asset loading, rendering, and networking coming from a Game Engine/Studio. (Desirable) - Be an amazing systems-level C++ programmer and be fascinated by the actual work the CPU does when you use smart pointers, templates, virtual functions, and blocks of memory, both structured and raw - Have a keen to each millisecond of the network exchanges: You know where the time goes and how to reduce the waste - Understand what happens on the operating system level when certain code is completed You Have: - Worked on the guts of a multi-player game engine, solving problems related to scale, performance, latency, and throughput in client/server environments. - Worked on a very large multithreaded distributed system that connects millions of users worldwide. - Worked on the devices Roblox supports - from desktop clients to mobile phone clients to console clients 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 $293,800 - $343,340 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.
Principal App Store Manager
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 App Store Manager plays a critical role as the central coordinator and owner of technical requirements related to our app store integrations, releases, and developer communications. In this position, you will serve as the bridge between business and engineering teams, ensuring seamless operations across global platforms like the Apple App Store, Google Play, and others. Beyond day-to-day operations, you will lead a distributed team of "deputies" from key peer teams—including Business Development, Release Engineering, Platform, and Productivity—to ensure operational resilience and eliminate single points of failure. You will also be a strategic voice, using your insights to drive leadership decisions and scale this function to meet the evolving demands of the business. You will: - Manage Store Access & Compliance: Serve as the primary administrator for app store portals, managing user permissions, handling access requests, and conducting quarterly SOX compliance audits to ensure secure administration. - Drive Release Readiness: Coordinate technical requirements for store submissions, including tracking platform-specific deadlines (e.g., Xcode/SDK upgrades, API enforcement) and managing the timeline for internal engineering teams to meet them. - Lead a Distributed Task Force: Recruit, train, and coordinate a team of "deputies" from Business Development, Release Engineering, Platform, and Productivity teams to distribute operational load and prevent Single Point of Failure (SPOF) risks. - Drive Strategic Growth: Analyze operational bottlenecks and business needs to influence leadership decisions, advocating for the resources and strategies required to scale the App Store function effectively. - Lead Technical Triage & Setup: Act as the point of contact for store functionality bugs, lead the setup of new store environments (including legal sign-off and tech specs), and manage project-based configurations like API access for services. - Oversee Provisioning & Certs: Manage mobile provisioning profiles (including coordinating limited slots for partners like Tencent and VNG) and maintain critical technical assets like Apple Push Notification certificates. - Bridge Business & Engineering: Translate technical store issues into actionable requests for engineering, while intercepting and communicating "new functionality" updates or beta opportunities from stores to relevant internal teams. - Streamline Operations: Optimize workflows by centralizing store data (moving analytics to data lakes), managing content ratings (IARC), and maintaining a consistent system for submission "Review Notes." You have: - Extensive experience managing app store portals (Apple App Store Connect, Google Play Console, etc.) and a deep understanding of their administrative and technical workflows. - A strong background in technical project management or release coordination, with the ability to act as a translator between non-technical stakeholders and engineering teams. - Proven experience leading cross-functional initiatives or matrixed teams, with the ability to influence leadership and drive strategic growth in a technical environment. - Familiarity with mobile development ecosystems, including knowledge of mobile provisioning (UDID), certificates, and binary submission requirements. - Experience handling compliance-related tasks, such as SOX audits, legal agreement updates, and content rating systems (IARC). - Proven ability to triage complex technical issues, such as store portal bugs, and coordinate API or service-based access requests. - Excellent organizational skills to track critical deadlines across multiple platforms and maintain detailed documentation or runbooks. 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 $277,350 - $330,330 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.
Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Communication Safety
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. Why Safety? At Roblox, we strive to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and the Safety organization’s mission is to become the leader in civil immersive online communities. We systematically and proactively detect, remove, and prevent problematic content and behavior. In doing so, we keep Roblox safe, civil, and inclusive, fostering positive relationships between people around the world. Why Safety AI Systems? As a Senior/Principal Machine Learning Engineer for Safety AI Systems, you will define the future of proactive moderation, driving immense social impact through cutting-edge, innovative ML solutions. This role is a fusion of a Principal Engineer's technical authority and an Engineering Manager's leadership, focused on the most critical and ambiguous safety challenges. You will set the 3-5 year technical strategy and architectural blueprint for how Roblox uses machine learning—from high-velocity text filtering to leveraging multimodal Generative AI—to combat the most complex critical harms on the platform. You will own the execution roadmap and technical planning, directly guiding the launch of high-priority new ML projects. You will be responsible for defining the standards of innovation in data quality, model robustness, and ethical deployment across the entire Content & Communication Safety ML pillar. You will lead and scale a high-performing group of individual contributors, providing both strategic oversight and hands-on guidance to the teams responsible for the architectural development of massive-scale systems that mitigate abuse and harassment before it impacts our community. You will feel a deep sense of responsibility in proactively protecting our community—thoughtfully and fairly—while balancing user freedom with platform civility. Your efforts will ensure Roblox remains one of the safest places on the internet for users. You will: - Define and Own the Technical Vision: Define and lead the multi-year technical vision, architectural strategy, and execution for machine learning solutions across Content and Communication Safety, ensuring these systems proactively and effectively detect and prevent high-severity, critical harms at massive scale. - Provide Senior/Principal-Level Architecture: Act as the highest technical authority for the Content Safety ML domain, guiding the architecture and long-term maintainability of foundational models, data pipelines, and real-time inference services. - Drive Cross-Org Alignment: Identify and champion the most ambiguous, high-leverage technical problems, driving alignment and securing investment for organization-wide ML infrastructure and platform development initiatives that benefit all of Trust & Safety. - Lead Innovation in Safety: Oversee the adoption and safe deployment of innovative technologies (e.g., advanced NLP, self-supervised learning, multimodal LLMs) to anticipate and mitigate novel abuse vectors, moving beyond reactive detection to proactive intervention . - Strategic Stakeholder Partnership: Collaborate with executive-level Product, Data Science, Policy, and Operations leaders to define and prioritize the strategic machine learning roadmap, influencing product strategy and demonstrating the impact of ML on user trust and safety outcomes. You have: - 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and operating large-scale, high-impact machine learning systems in a production environment. - 5+ years of experience in technical leadership, management, or mentorship roles, ideally having managed Engineering Managers or Senior/Principal-level individual contributors. - A proven track record of successfully setting the long-term technical direction for an entire ML domain or pillar, demonstrating the ability to take ambiguous problems from concept to scaled production impact. - Deep expertise in advanced ML architectures, including Large Language Models (LLMs) , transfer learning, or other foundation model technologies, especially applied to text or multimodal data. - Expertise in architecting scalable, real-time ML inference services and robust data pipelines operating at millions of requests per second. - Demonstrated success in leading and resolving high-stakes, cross-functional conflicts and technical disagreements, with an ability to build consensus among diverse stakeholders. - Exceptional product sense and strategic planning ability: able to translate platform safety requirements into an achievable, iterative technical roadmap. You are: - A Visionary Architect: Capable of synthesizing complex business and safety goals into a clear, compelling, and actionable technical strategy. - An Inspiring Leader: Passionate about developing the next generation of technical leaders, managers, and engineers. - Comfortable with Ambiguity: You thrive in undefined or open-ended problem spaces, providing structure, clarity, and decisive direction to your teams. - An Executive Communicator: Highly effective at communicating complex technical concepts to both engineering teams and non-technical executive leadership. - Committed to Ethical AI: Dedicated to building ML systems that are fair, transparent, and operate with the utmost responsibility toward user safety and platform civility. 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 $293,800 - $343,340 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.
Principal Client Platform Engineer
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. Roblox is seeking a Principal Client Platform Engineer to serve as the technical architect of our global endpoint ecosystem. Reporting to the Client Services Manager, you will define the long-term strategy for how our fleet scales, secures, and evolves. This role goes beyond day-to-day management — you will establish architectural standards, drive automation-first platform design, and ensure thousands of builders have secure, reliable tools to do their best work. From strengthening our security posture in a complex hybrid environment to mentoring senior engineers, you will shape the technical foundation that powers innovation at Roblox. You Will: - Standardize the global security and management strategy for our entire fleet of macOS, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS, and ChromeOS devices to ensure peak performance and ironclad compliance. - Evolve of our deployment pipeline, driving the automated rollout of patches, OS upgrades, and complex certificate lifecycles for all endpoints. - Lead the hardening of our endpoint security posture, partnering with InfoSec to architect automated remediation workflows and deploying advanced observability tools like CrowdStrike, and Kolide. - Design and scale internally owned systems within our hybrid environment. - Lead complex platform initiatives from architecture through global deployment and operational maturity. - Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders across Corporate Engineering, Security, Engineering, and People Ops to align technical roadmaps with broader company goals. - Navigate and resolve high-level ambiguity, transforming vague technical requirements into scalable engineering solutions. - Serve as a technical escalation point, diagnosing deep-level architectural failures in hardware, software, and enterprise networking. - Participate in the team’s on-call rotation, providing senior-level response for critical system availability and high-priority security incidents. You Have: - 10+ years of experience in endpoint engineering, systems architecture, or infrastructure engineering. - Proven experience securing and managing global fleets of 5,000+ devices. - Deep expertise with endpoint management platforms such as Jamf Pro, Workspace ONE, Google Endpoint Management, Fleet, or Microsoft Intune. - Strong programming ability in Python, Bash, Go, or Ruby with a focus on automation and systems integration. - Experience implementing Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps-based configuration management. - Advanced knowledge of Identity and Access Management and Zero Trust architecture across Okta, Google Workspace, and Entra ID. - Strong understanding of PKI, certificate lifecycle management, and enterprise networking security. - Demonstrated ability to lead large technical initiatives and influence cross-functional stakeholders. You Are: - A security-focused architect passionate about solving complex endpoint challenges at scale. - Comfortable working through ambiguity, with the ability to provide technical clarity and direction in a fast-paced, evolving environment. - Heavily metrics-driven and customer-centric, using data to validate the effectiveness of security controls and improve the Builder experience. - A collaborative engineer who builds strong relationships with cross-functional partners and mentors junior & senior team members. 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 $230,980 - $267,390 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.
Principal Software Engineer, Cluster Lifecycle
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 Principal Software Engineer on the Compute Cell Lifecycle team you will create, support, and evolve the infrastructure at Roblox as we build out Roblox's private cloud. The Cell Lifecycle's mission is to create and manage a sustainable and reliable compute primitive across all backend environments (all on-prem and public cloud data centers) to all Roblox engineers. Come help us create, support, and evolve the infrastructure that manages the millions of containers that serve hundreds of millions of requests per second that power Roblox where you will have the opportunity to create long lasting impact on the entire company. You will: - Build and evolve a cell primitive for Roblox that runs the backends for the vast majority of Roblox’s compute workload. - Work closely with other teams in Compute and across the company to develop new features, support for new workloads, and define the right cross-system APIs as we expand the footprint of ‘cells’. - Safely and reliably manage a critical at-scale system. You Have: - 8+ years of experience - Experience working in the Kubernetes ecosystem. Prior experience building Kubernetes operators or building/running Kubernetes distributions preferred. - Strong proficiency in Go or other well structured programming languages. - Enjoy working on critical, large-scale, cross-platform, multi-tenant distributed systems. - Prefer building systems automation over operational and repetitive tasks. - An appreciation for working on observability and reliability to build long term sustainable systems 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 $295,250 - $345,040 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.
Principal Software Engineer - Economy ML (Data Systems)
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. Who We Are: Shape the future of Roblox’s virtual economy. The Economy ML team is building the machine learning backbone that powers Roblox’s Marketplace, Developer Monetization, and Payments ecosystems. From intelligent pricing and personalized storefronts to dynamic layout optimization and avatar understanding, we’re reimagining how the Roblox economy drives user engagement, monetization, and creator success at scale. As a Principal Software Engineer (Data Systems) , you will architect, build and deploy high-scale, reliable real-time and batch data systems for personalization, search and recommendation across various product surfaces in Marketplace, Developer Monetization and Payments. You will be involved in key data projects from architecting event taxonomies and logging interfaces to real-time feature serving across multiple search and recommendation surfaces. What You’ll Do - Act as data engineering lead for Economy ML, setting standards for batch vs streaming feature pipelines, table design, observability, and documentation used across the Economy group. - Work as a hands-on contributor on our data systems to power content recommendation, search and personalization across Economy product surfaces. - Partner with Product, Data Science and ML engineering counterparts to prioritize data initiatives that unlock top-line business goals and reduce tech debt in existing datasets and pipelines. - Mentor other DE/ML engineers on best practices for schema design, client logging, experimentation data, and feature pipelines, raising the overall bar for data work. - Collaborate with partner and platform teams across Roblox to make sure we are building products with a community first approach. - Research and leverage industry-leading practices while making product impact. You Have - 8+ years of experience as a product-focused data systems engineer (preferably working with search, recommendation, advertising or personalization systems). - Experience designing efficient logging schemas and optimizing data processing pipelines. - Experience with real-time stream processing and batch processing (using technologies such as Flink, Spark, Kafka, Druid) - Familiarity with feature stores and other machine learning infrastructure. You Are - A Technical Leader : You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical solutions. Your technical expertise influences product direction. You nurture a culture of technical excellence. - Versatile : You're a generalist and you are comfortable with several languages and technologies already; you are adaptable in any situation. You are resourceful, and take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems. - Analytical : Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and quantify the problems and the solutions. - User Oriented : You always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers before architecting a solution. - Team Oriented : You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger. Why Economy ML @ Roblox? - Cross-surface impact: Your work will influence virtual item recommendations, Robux pricing, page layout, avatar generation, and more. - Scalable infrastructure: Build on top of Roblox’s ML Platform and Data Infrastructure to accelerate data analysis, experimentation and rapid deployment of product ML solutions. - High-leverage mission: Directly contribute to key growth levers: retention, engagement, monetization, and creator success. Flexible structure: Work in a fluid pod model, allocating effort to the most strategic initiatives without rigid silos 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 $295,250 - $354,040 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.
Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Safety Experience
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 Safety Experience organization builds the tools and systems that give Roblox Users and Creators control over their experience and empower moderators to enforce our community standards. These teams focus on education, intervention, visibility, and action. We focus on: - Monitoring and influencing user behavior (User Safety) - Building efficient and scalable moderation platforms (Foundation) - Providing transparency and education for parents and developers (User Safety) - Giving users agency in managing their own safety (User Safety) - Give IP owners the ability to manage their creations on Roblox (Rights & Guidelines) - Providing users fast and accurate support with the Customer Care Chatbot (Customer Care) You will: - Build end-to-end ML systems related to similarity detection and Computer Vision related classification and more - Drive the evolution of our safety experience into a scalable, adaptable system that supports dozens of customer teams with unique needs - Develop innovative detection approaches in a rapidly evolving landscape. Use a data-driven lens to think creatively, strategically, and adversarially to identify opportunities. - Shape the team's roadmap and technical direction. Drive execution, establish strong technical foundations, and mentor junior engineers. - Partner with AI Systems, PM, Data, and stakeholders across Roblox. You have: - 7+ year experience in designing and building deep learning solutions to solve computer vision problems. Capable of breaking down product requirements into iterative deliverable stages. Experience in launching computer vision models into production. - MS or PhD degree in Computer Vision, Deep Learning, or a related field. You have solid fundamentals in Computer Vision and Deep Learning. Nice to haves - Experience in anti-abuse / integrity/security domain is a plus 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 $293,800 - $343,340 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.
Principal Software Engineer, Ads Experience
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. With Roblox’s daily active users growing at a record pace, we are building the next generation advertising in an immersive metaverse. Our team sits at the core of the Roblox Ads ecosystem, serving billions of impressions while providing the critical infrastructure that connects global brands with our massive community of creators. We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to drive technical strategy and execution for the Ads Experience team. This team is responsible for the full spectrum of our monetization experience, including Advertiser Experience (Roblox Ads Manager), Brand Experience (Brand Ads & Integrations), and Publisher Experience (Creator Monetization & Commerce). This is a foundational technical challenge beyond standard ad-tech. You will architect the high-scale backbone of our monetization system, driving the technical vision for our Ads Manager, immersive Brand Ads formats, and creator solutions, while pioneering AI integration and balancing a three-sided marketplace economy in real-time. You Will - Architect the Roblox Ads Manager: Design and build the end-to-end technical architecture for our flagship advertising platform, ensuring it can handle complex campaign state management, real-time reporting, high-volume asset ingestion, and intelligent recommendations to optimize campaign goals. - Architect the Brand Ads Offering: Design and build the end-to-end ads system—including forecasting, serving and delivery—to support reservation, auction, and innovative brand ads. You will leverage the uniqueness of 3D to create immersive offerings (video, portals, deep integrations) that enable advertisers to foster brand awareness and attain their business goals. - Enable Creator Success: Architect the systems facilitating seamless onboarding and management of monetization integrations (Rewarded Ads, Commerce, Immersive Ads), provide comprehensive reporting dashboards for payouts and insight metrics, and build solutions allowing creators to promote their games using ads. - Drive Technical Strategy: Act as the technical authority for the organization, translating ambitious business goals—such as new campaign objectives or novel ad formats—into concrete, multi-year technical roadmaps. - Innovate with AI: Spearhead the strategic application of AI across the ecosystem, exploring future capabilities such as Gen AI for multi-modal creatives (Text, Image, 3D) and intelligent assistants designed to empower advertisers and creators to achieve success. - Lead & Mentor: Mentor junior and senior engineers, conduct design reviews, and set the standard for code quality and system reliability across the team. You Have - 8+ years of experience developing complex software products, with at least 3+ years in a Technical Lead role. - Ads Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of the Ad Tech stack, including Campaign Management, Reporting, Creative, Ad Serving, Measurement, and Ad Delivery. - Full-Stack & Distributed Systems Mastery: Proven ability to design and scale high-availability backend systems using technologies like Go or C# and data processing tools (Spark, Flink), combined with a strong grasp of modern frontend architectures (React, TypeScript) to build responsive, data-heavy user interfaces. - Product Collaboration: Proven track record of partnering closely with Product Management and Design to define product vision, scope requirements, and drive execution from concept to launch. - AI/ML Familiarity: Experience working with ML engineers to integrate AI/ML into product workflows is desirable. - Education: BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. 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 $293,800 - $343,340 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.
Senior Mobile Systems Engineer, Audio Team (Android & C++)
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. You Have: - Experience: - You have 5+ years of experience delivering projects that include complex user workflows. - Domain Knowledge: You have Android and C++ expertise - You are highly skilled at performance tuning, and debugging and fixing production problems. - Domain Knowledge: You have some iOS, and Windows experience. You love to pick up new technologies as the landscape evolves. - Versatility: You can adapt to any situation when the need arises and come up with the right solution. - A keen interest in developing audio expertise and knowledge, professional audio experience is not required. - Creativity: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems. Bringing real-time interactivity to build an immersive 3D world should get you thinking about many problems to solve… and make you excited as a result. - Professionalism: You take pride in delivering a high quality product and user experience. - Skills: - C++ programming - Experience designing refining and tuning algorithms - Troubleshooting bugs and performance issues - Background: You have a BS in a STEM related field or equivalent experience. - Bonus: Console programming experience (PlayStation, Xbox, etc.) - Bonus: Systems-level Bluetooth experience - Bonus: Experience working on a product that’s used at a massive scale (millions of DAUs) - Bonus: Server experience or experience designing/interacting with server APIs - Bonus: Experience with neighboring domains like Computer Graphics or Physics You Will: - Develop new functionality, pipelines, and workflows, and enhance existing ones. - Help implement our next generation real time immersive audio simulation platform. - Adapt performance for the best quality on all platforms from low end phones to high end desktops. - Take a practical approach to apply research efforts into the Roblox products. - Collaborate with different teams to deliver innovative new features. - Be guided by the company vision to put the Roblox community first. 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 $242,100 - $293,800 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.
Principal Detection and Response Engineer
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. About the role: As a Principal Security Engineer on the Detection and Response (D&R) team at Roblox, you'll play a key role designing and developing effective custom security data pipeline systems, detection strategies and automations for response workflows to defend our critical assets from threat actors. You will also lead real-time incident response, actively investigate events and analyze threat actor techniques to prioritize emerging threats to ensure Roblox is equipped to mitigate and react to critical challenges. You will play a vital part to ensure the safety of our community and enterprise by proactively fostering a high-performing, inclusive security culture. This is a hybrid in-office role. You Will: - Be a D&R authority! You will deliver robust detection & response capabilities: build new threat detection systems (keeping false positives low) while also automating processes with scripts, playbooks and orchestration tooling. - Implement ETL pipelines : Design and develop customized data processing pipelines. - Conduct security operations : Actively monitor security events and participate in on-call rotations to lead real-time incident response to contain and mitigate potential security issues. - Build positive relationships : Collaborate with internal teams like InfoSec, Engineering, Product and Safety to design scalable solutions. - Help grow the D&R team : Guide and support junior engineer careers and contribute to hiring. You Have: - 8+ years of experience in Detection and/or Response : with a passion for security engineering, threat detection, threat hunting, and incident management. - 4+ years of Security Data Engineering experience with streaming pipelines : You’ve built production grade ETL data processing pipelines end to end using Kafka / PubSub, Spark / Flink, Athena / BigQuery or similar. - Software Development (SWE): Mastery building efficient, reliable, CI/CD deployed, scalable systems using programming languages like C, Golang or Java. - Engineering experience with SIEM, EDR, NDR, and SOAR technologies: You have on-boarded logs in your sleep and built custom detections/automations for complex environments. - Conducted incident response: Structured, mature incident response processes are your vocabulary to swiftly resolve security incidents. Afterwards, you use evidence and data to tell the story and ensure action items are meticulous and complete. - Familiarity across multiple domains: Deep understanding of network protocols, operating systems, cloud environments, virtualized hosts, containers, in order to identify potential threats to each. - Core security skills: Analytical thinking, crisis management, root cause analysis, and problem-solving, with a meticulous approach to identifying, investigating, and responding to incidents. 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 $295,250 - $345,040 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.
Product Policy Specialist
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 Product Policy Specialist will play a key role in executing our Content Policies. This role requires interpreting policies and overseeing their successful enforcement across all moderation systems and processes. As part of this role, you will review substantial volumes of production samples, determine if content adheres to Roblox's policies, and identify and resolve policy gaps. Reporting into Roblox’s Product Policy function, you will have a global impact on our policy and safety strategy. You will be responsible for collaborating with internal teams—specifically Safety Product, Engineering, and Moderation Operations—to implement our Content policies and foster a safe, civil environment on the Platform. You will: - Produce datasets of policy labels for user-generated content, used to ensure the correct implementation of Roblox’s policies by human and automated moderation systems. - Act as a bridge between our Safety Policy and Operations teams. Partner closely with the Moderation Operations team to ensure the effective enforcement of Roblox policies. - Respond to inquiries regarding our policies and rules from XFN within Roblox. - Collaborate with Content Policy developers to identify and resolve policy ambiguities and gaps. - Serve as an operational and policy subject matter expert, supporting Product and Engineering teams in the development of advanced automated enforcement solutions. - Monitor key trends and suspicious patterns across policy areas, and draft comprehensive guidelines to ensure effective policy implementation by reviewers. You have: - 1-2 years of experience in policy, enforcement, or moderation operations, coupled with a strong interest in technology policy. - Excellent analytical and judgment skills; must be able to comprehend complex policies and consistently apply them across diverse situations. - Strong organizational and documentation skills, with meticulous attention to detail. - Ability to clearly articulate complex concepts and advocate for decisions effectively. - Degree in a related field such as Public Policy, Law, Political Science, or International Relations. - Proficiency in a second language is highly preferred, particularly: Arabic, Indonesian Bahasa, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Hindi, French, or German. 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 $127,890 - $161,100 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.
Senior Data Scientist - Ecosystem and Learning Platform
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. WHY DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS? The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency, and acumen in making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum, including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling, and machine learning. Aligned and partnered with product verticals, we use this extensive tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and craft the product roadmap, and prioritize, build data products, and measure impact on our community of players and developers. WHY ECOSYSTEM AND LEARNING PLATFORM? The mission of the Ecosystem and Learning Platform Data Science team is to empower vertical data science teams and drive data-informed decision-making at scale. We do so by collaborating with vertical data science and cross-functional partners to solve complex business problems that span multiple areas of the Roblox ecosystem, develop scalable data science solutions and tools, and advance data science methodologies. Central to our mission are platformized tools that provide comprehensive solutions for company-wide experimentation, forecasting and anomaly detection needs, integrate diverse data sources, and offer scalable, accessible data science products that yield actionable insights for product areas across Roblox. As a member of this team, you will collaborate with product data science partners to develop and support core data science and machine learning models, and build platform solutions that streamline the model development and deployment process. You will also collaborate with product data science and cross-functional partners to bring structure and innovative solutions to complex business problems. In the process, you will help build cutting-edge methodologies and tools that advance data science within our company and set industry standards. If you are a self-starter who is curious and passionate about leveraging big data to create tangible business value and thrive in a dynamic, collaborative, and innovative environment, this is the place for you. You Will: - Develop and support core data science models and production pipelines used across the business. - Support the development and operations of a centralized platform for time series forecasting and anomaly detection. - Collaborate with data science and product partners to develop innovative and scalable solutions to measure ecosystem health, forecast business performance, and identify and quantify complex cause-and-effect relationships within the Roblox ecosystem. - Promote and uphold a high bar of technical excellence and enable the adoption of technical advances in data science. - Work closely with engineering and product partners to build scalable data science systems and tools. - Own the implementation and maintenance of DS self-serve tools and proactively identify opportunities to scale experimentation, causal modeling, and analytics insights through tooling and methodology. - Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders to solve problems and influence decisions. - Cultivate strong partnerships with vertical data science teams, engineering, and product partners. You Have: - An Advanced Degree (MSc or PhD) in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, or other quantitative fields. - 4+ years in developing and applying statistical methods, causal inference techniques, experiment design and analysis, time series modeling, or machine learning. - 4+ years of experience building scalable ETL data pipelines and dashboards. - 4+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, data engineering, analytics engineering or related fields. - 4+ years of experience in one or more scripting languages, such as Python. - Demonstrated ability to lead or build project areas from scratch. 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 $262,380 - $321,230 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.
Senior Business Development Manager
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 Senior Business Development Manager role, which reports to the Senior Director of Business Development, is responsible for overseeing global and regional distribution, discovery, and go-to-market partners. This role is seeking an individual who is passionate about building new businesses and has a vision for how to innovate with platforms such as app stores, social/video platforms, and connected device manufacturers to create novel commercial opportunities for Roblox and its creators. Role is based in our San Mateo, CA office Tuesday - Thursday (remote Monday and Friday) You Will - Develop and optimize business relationships with strategic partners to expand Roblox’s global reach, grow revenue, and improve operating margin - Collaborate with multiple internal Roblox teams to support strategic programs and product releases across relevant partners - Come up with new creative products and services to implement with our partners to improve the Roblox experience for our users and creators - Drive financial analysis and strategic insights to support global and regional deal negotiations with key partners and internal product development roadmap planning - Partner with finance and analytics teams to manage account performance, development, and revenue growth - Manage all aspects of partner-related projects – build and submit project kick-off briefs (internal and external), maintain clear and detailed project plans that track deliverables and milestones, and serve as a leader throughout the entire process to ensure that project goals are accomplished. - Act as a central resource for partner insights, competitive intelligence, deal support, and expertise as required - Lead ongoing weekly, monthly, and quarterly meetings with our main partners to establish strategic plans, evaluate new business opportunities, and support our teams - Provide recurring business reporting for internal stakeholders You Have - 6+ years working in a business development or strategic partnerships role with direct experience within the games industry ecosystem - Experience negotiating, structuring, and working with attorneys to complete complex legal agreements - Successfully spearheaded deals that led to sustained positive impact for the business - Partnered successfully with multiple internal cross-functional teams (e.g. marketing, product management, engineering) to achieve your goals - Experience in developing mutually successful partnerships founded on iterative product and business innovation - Proven ability to manage the needs of multiple partners, stakeholders, and projects simultaneously - The ability to create processes to help solve complex technical problems - Drive thoughtful partnership execution while balancing short-term problem-solving with the long-term strategic roadmap You Are - Creative, resourceful, detail-oriented, and highly organized - A strong communicator who engages effectively with executives and engineers - Product-minded and think systemically - Enthusiastic and thrive in a dynamic, changing environment 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 $202,340 - $240,980 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.
Human Evaluator, Marketplace (Contract)
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. Why Roblox? 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. Role Overview We are searching for a self-motivated individual who is passionate about Roblox and thrives in detail. You will be responsible for classifying content based on a specific set of guidelines to help us improve Roblox systems. As a Human Evaluator you will have the opportunity to provide us direct feedback on the performance of various products across the company. You will: - Classify content based on a set of instructions - Content classification includes the review and classification of text, image, video, and audio - Track and document insights and trends related to annotation projects - Test out new features and provide detailed feedback - Become an expert in a variety of topics to enable more accurate evaluations - Dedicate between 25-29 hours per week with a work schedule from Monday to Friday You have: - In-depth understanding of Roblox and the Roblox community. - Strong gaming experience and ability to adapt to a variety of gaming environments - Thorough knowledge of the Roblox Avatar Marketplace - Insight into current trends within the platform - Strong verbal and written communication skills. - Demonstrated patience for repetitive tasks and attention to detail - Effective time management skills - Solid knowledge of the technical aspects of Roblox Studio. - Fluency in a second language is a plus Nice to Have - At least 1+ years of experience developing on Roblox or other creation platforms. - Solid knowledge of the technical aspects of Roblox Studio. - Proficiency with Lua, xml and sql - Fluency in a second language, such as: Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian - Prior experience with content moderation or data annotation. - A deep passion for gaming trends and the Roblox community ecosystem. Please note - Benefits below only apply to full time employees in the US. - This role is fully remote 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 $23.20 - $23.20 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.
Senior Data Scientist - Alt Defense
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. WHY DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS? The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency and acumen of making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product verticals, we use this extensive tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products and measure impact on our community of players and developers. WHY ALT DETECTION? Our Alt Detection system at Roblox is a frontier challenge in large-scale identity modeling, managing a massive multi-partite graph that currently includes approximately tens of billions of nodes and hundreds of billions of edges. In this role, you will apply your expertise in data science, statistics, and causal inference to strategically define, measure, and improve our alt detection systems. This is integrated deeply within various applications across the company. Within our Safety group, identity modeling is critical to mitigate alternate accounts used by adversarial actors to bypass our safety enforcements. Beyond safety, your work will be critical to systemic growth, used for core growth reporting and understanding true market penetration, in addition to establishing fair creator incentives. And more opportunities to expand this system across safety and non-safety use cases. This is an opportunity to build state-of-the-art detection systems that fuel our safety efforts while directly catalyzing our company’s most important growth levers. You Will: - Develop ground truth evaluation strategies by integrating diverse signals, ranging from "gold standard" manual labels to automated weak supervision frameworks. - Calibrate score thresholds across applications, balancing high-precision enforcement needs with high-recall required for growth reporting - Partner with MLE to identify and validate new behavioral, network, and biometric signals to expand detection coverage. - Collaborate with Engineering to design modular systems capable of processing billions of candidate pairs and supporting high-concurrency graph traversals. - Lead the cross-functional integration of identity models into Discovery, Ads, and Creator Success to eliminate fraud and improve the fidelity of platform metrics. - Conduct strategic research to decode the incentives behind alt creation and develop sophisticated classification taxonomies to guide mitigation strategies. - Communicate strategic insights and present recommendations to leadership and all cross-functional partners, translating complex statistical findings on prevalence, ground truth quality, and effectiveness into actionable strategies for Product, Engineering, Policy, Compliance, and Legal. - Partner with ML and Data Engineering teams to ensure model development, reporting, and detection systems are built on statistically sound ground truth and measurement frameworks. You Have: - 8+ years of industry experience in data science, economics, analytics, or machine learning engineering - 6+ years of experience using scripting languages (Python, R), and big data query/processing languages and tools such as SQL, Hive, Spark, and Airflow - Knowledge of ML and Deep Learning either via formal training or industry experience - Ability to apply creative first-principles reasoning to solve ambiguous problems - Experience developing large-scale safety or moderation systems as well as experience with content platforms, specifically user-generated content - Advanced Degree and/or PhD in Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Applied Math, Economics, or other related quantitative fields 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 $263,670 - $322,820 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.
Developer Engagement Representative - European Union (Part-Time, Contract)
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 Developer Relations team at Roblox is looking for new team members for our ever-growing International Developer Engagement Team. We're looking for someone who is passionate about Roblox and growing the local creator community in Germany. You Will: - Develop an understanding of Roblox moderation rules and guidelines - Identify and engage with potential partners within the developer community to build and maintain a strong partnership pipeline - Plan and execute online and offline community events, workshops, and initiatives that inspire and connect developers across regions. - Manage programs from initial concept through successful completion, setting clear goals, tracking milestones, and measuring outcomes. - Support translation and localization efforts to ensure programs, communications, and resources are accessible and culturally relevant to global audiences. - Follow established team processes while identifying opportunities to refine and improve workflows. You Have: - Great understanding of Roblox and the Roblox community - Good standing regarding Roblox moderation history - Excellent speaking and writing skills in both English and German - Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities, both online and offline - A proactive and adaptable mindset with a passion for supporting and growing a global developer ecosystem. - Ability to work cross-functionally and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment with a team-first mentality - Believe that helping the community is crucial to the success of the company - A desire to help empower and encourage our developer community - Knowledge and understanding of community processes, methodologies and best practices - Experience with gaming communities, game jams, or virtual/hybrid event planning is a plus You Are: - Fluent in both English and German - Physically located in European Union - Early career / recent grad (preferred) 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.
[2026] Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Natural Language Processing - PhD Early Career
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. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is central to enabling massive-scale communication, creation, and safety across the Roblox platform. This role offers the unique opportunity to build and deploy cutting-edge NLP, speech, and generative AI models that operate at an unprecedented scale, impacting hundreds of millions of daily users. You will solve an extremely diverse range of high-scale language-related problems—from real-time moderation of voice and text to automatically localizing experiences and empowering users through LLM-driven creation tools . We combine cutting-edge research with large-scale engineering to bridge experimentation and production, designing algorithms that shape the next generation of language services for our immersive, user-generated content platform. Teams Hiring for This Role - Safety AI Systems: Dedicated to building end-to-end ML systems for maintaining civility and safety across the platform, operating at massive scale. This includes: - Real-time Moderation: Building world-class NLP and speech models for real-time moderation of voice and text (processing over 6 billion messages daily) and advanced interventions that measurably improve user civility. - Critical Harms & Advanced Detection: Developing specialized LLM agents, behavioral analysis, and graph systems for detecting and preventing rare, high-risk scenarios (e.g., child safety, terrorism), requiring adversarial thinking and multi-step reasoning. - Safety Data Quality: Ensuring all Safety AI systems are robust by managing the core data infrastructure, MLOps, and Active Learning initiatives for continuous model improvement. You Will - Design and implement deep learning-based NLP and speech solutions that address problems across Roblox, from creation to safety. - Develop advanced models, including Large Language Models (LLMs), machine translation, and generative AI , for user interactions, content creation, and moderation. - Have the independence and end-to-end responsibility to develop NLP/ML-based services that are scalable and resilient. - Be a technical bar-raiser for cutting-edge ML technology, high code quality, and architectural designs. - Work backward from user and product needs to deliver ML solutions that drive engagement, safety, and ecosystem growth. You Have - Possessing or pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related technical field, with a thesis aligned to Roblox’s research areas. - Expertise in one or more areas: NLP, Speech Models, Large Language Models, Machine Translation, or Generative AI (including diffusion models). - Experience with transformer-based model design, training, serving, and product integration. - A strong research track record, evidenced by multiple publications and presentations in top-tier, peer-reviewed venues (e.g., ACL, EMNLP, Interspeech, ICML, NeurIPS). - Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C++, Go, Java) and experience building and optimizing large-scale systems. You may redact age, date of birth, and dates of attendance/graduation from your resume if you prefer. As you apply, you can find more information about our process by signing up for Speak_. You'll gain access to our practice assessment, comprehensive guides, FAQs, and modules designed to help you ace the hiring process. 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 $195,780 - $242,100 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.
Art Director
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. Roblox is looking for a conceptually driven Art Director to join our Plus Brand Creative team and help shape how the brand shows up across social platforms. In this role, you’ll lead the visual direction of social-first storytelling that celebrates our platform, community, and creators. You’ll concept and craft work designed specifically for platforms like Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and emerging social channels—creating content that captures the culture of Roblox and the creativity of millions who play, create, and connect every day. Whether highlighting new experiences, celebrating creator stories, or translating brand moments into engaging social narratives, you’ll combine strong conceptual thinking with sharp visual instincts and deep platform awareness. This hands-on role requires a passion for internet culture, a strong sense of pacing and storytelling, and the ability to move quickly while maintaining a high bar for craft. You Will: - Lead concept-driven art direction for Roblox’s social channels, creating content designed for in-feed discovery and engagement. - Concept and develop platform-native ideas across formats including short-form video, motion-driven graphics, carousels, memes, and community-driven content. - Collaborate closely with motion designers, editors, copywriters, and marketers to bring social-first storytelling to life. - Translate brand campaigns, launches, and cultural moments into compelling social content that resonates with the Roblox community. - Help define and evolve the visual language of Roblox across social platforms while maintaining brand consistency. - Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure social content aligns with broader marketing and brand objectives. - Maintain a high standard of craft across fast-moving, high-volume creative output. - Stay deeply connected to platform trends, creator culture, and emerging formats to keep Roblox’s social presence fresh and culturally relevant. - Present ideas clearly and confidently to internal teams and stakeholders. You Have: - 4+ years of experience in art direction or visual design, ideally focused on social, digital, or platform-native content. - A portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual thinking and visual storytelling, with examples of social-first creative and short-form content. - A strong understanding of composition, typography, color, and design systems applied to fast-moving digital environments. - Experience collaborating with motion designers, editors, and cross-functional partners to produce engaging social content. - Deep familiarity with social platforms, trends, and audience behaviors across channels like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. - Ability to balance speed and craft while working in a high-volume creative environment. - Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate and advocate for creative ideas. - A collaborative mindset and comfort working across teams to bring ideas to life. - A passion for Roblox, the Roblox creator community, and gaming culture. 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 $116,470 - $146,720 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.
Senior Frontend Engineer, Developer Monetization
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. Developer Monetization is the economic engine of Roblox, our team owns the surfaces and systems responsible for over 70% of platform revenue. We build the products that let millions of creators monetize their work and that shape how hundreds of millions of users discover and purchase virtual goods across the world's largest virtual economy. We're building the next generation of that economy, including auto-generated storefronts, autonomous pricing systems, and personalized shopping experiences. All delivered at zero cost to the creator. We're constantly reimagining what's possible and the frontend is where all of this comes to life. As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you'll own critical user-facing products end-to-end, lead projects with high economic impact, and partner closely with product, design, data science, and ML teams. This is a high-ownership role with real room to grow for engineers who want to pair strong frontend craft with meaningful business impact. You Will - Design and ship personalized shopping experiences that surface the right content to hundreds of millions of users across web and mobile. - Build intelligent monetization tools that automatically detect pricing drift, run experiments, optimize per-item pricing, and surface regional offers to users. - Lead projects end-to-end: scope the work, make key technical decisions, run experiments, and iterate based on results. - Partner with product, design, data science, and ML engineers to translate strategy into polished, high-performing user experiences. - Drive frontend architecture decisions for your surfaces — component design, state management, performance, and cross-platform consistency. You Have - 7+ years of experience building responsive, complex user interfaces at scale. - 3+ years of experience with modern frontend frameworks (React, React Native, or similar). - Strong intuition for user experience — you notice when something feels off and you know how to fix it. - Experience with A/B testing, experimentation, and using data to inform product decisions. - Comfort leading projects across ambiguity: scoping work, coordinating with cross-functional partners, and driving to delivery. - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field (or equivalent experience). - Bonus: Experience with e-commerce, monetization platforms, or personalization systems. You Are - User-obsessed. You care deeply about the people using what you build. - Entrepreneurial. You identify what matters most, propose solutions, and move. - Craft-driven. You take pride in polished, performant UI — because you know they compound. - Impact-oriented. You measure your work by whether it moved the needle, not just deliverables. - Collaborative. You thrive working across engineering, product, design, and data science, and you're comfortable influencing decisions beyond your own code. 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 $226,250 - $293,800 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.
[2026] Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Multimodal AI, Computer Vision and Graphics - PhD Early Career
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. At Roblox, computer vision and graphics power the way our global community discovers, creates, and interacts on our virtual platform. This role involves building cutting-edge models to interpret and analyze every form of content—experiences, text, images, videos, and 3D avatars. Your work will directly influence core systems that drive the next generation of creation, search, recommendations, and trust & safety initiatives across our massive ecosystem. We’re looking for PhD candidates passionate about the intersection of computer vision, graphics, and generative modeling. You’ll work on applied research and engineering projects with direct production impact — enabling new ways for creators and players to bring ideas to life. Teams Hiring for This Role - Content Understanding: Develop large-scale computer vision and multimodal models that classify, organize, and recommend 3D and visual content to improve user discovery, personalization, and safety. - Account Identity : Focuses on various aspects of user identity from bot detection, alternate account detection graph, to age estimation based on behavioral and facial features. - Safety AI Systems: Develop AI that automatically inspects and filters the vast array of user-generated content on Roblox – from images and videos to audio files, 3D meshes, and entire games. This includes CV models to detect unsafe images, audio analysis to screen sound and music, and novel techniques for 3D content and code moderation. You Will: - Design and implement foundation models for visual and 3D-based creation, search, and recommendations , ensuring a high level of fidelity, relevance, and ranking. - Break down complex product requirements into iterative deliverable stages, moving applied research into high-scale production systems. - Implement innovative visual and multi-modal models that power core Roblox functions (e.g., world creation, avatar systems, search, and recommendations). - Build high precision facial age estimation across demographics from ground up including various fraud detection techniques for a robust and safe user identity system. You Have - Possessing or pursuing a PhD in computer science, engineering, or a related field, with a thesis aligned to Roblox’s research areas. - Expertise in one or more areas: computer vision, multimodal learning, 3D Graphics, or large-scale representation learning. - Experience developing and training deep learning models using modern frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX). - A strong research track record, evidenced by multiple publications and presentations in top-tier, peer-reviewed venues. - Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C++, Go, Java) and experience building and optimizing large-scale systems. Apply now to be considered for anticipated positions. You may redact age, date of birth, and dates of attendance/graduation from your resume if you prefer. As you apply, you can find more information about our process by signing up for Speak_. You'll gain access to our practice assessment, comprehensive guides, FAQs, and modules designed to help you ace the hiring process. 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 $195,780 - $242,100 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.
Senior Compliance Program Manager, Audit Response
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. Roblox is looking for a Senior Program Manager to step into this critical role focusing on preparing for and managing rigorous internal and external regulatory compliance audit requirements . You will act as the central nervous system of our compliance audit defense, serving as the primary bridge between internal and external auditors, product and engineering subject matter experts (SMEs), and legal. The ideal candidate is highly-organized, motivated, reliable and execution oriented. You thrive in a fast-paced environment where you are expected to effectively manage multiple highly cross functional programs at once. You Will: - Lead Compliance Audit Execution: Orchestrate the end-to-end lifecycle of internal and external audit requirements, ensuring strict adherence to timelines and scope. - Act as the Primary Coordinator: Serve as the central coordinating function for audit activities. You will translate auditor requests into actionable tasks for Engineering, Product, and Safety teams, and conversely, translate internal information into audit evidence. - Manage Legal Sign-Off Workflows: Design and enforce a rigorous chain-of-custody process for all audit evidence. You will ensure that no document, data point, or response is submitted to external auditors without explicit review and approval from designated Legal SMEs. - Drive Readiness & Mock Audits: Help Roblox improve its audit readiness through "mock audit" exercises to identify risks and ensure internal teams are prepared for rigorous audit requirements. - Coordinate Evidence Gathering: Manage the collection, organization, and repository of thousands of evidence artifacts. You will challenge the quality of evidence provided by SMEs to ensure it fully answers the audit test steps before it reaches Legal review. - Track Remediation: If audit findings requiring remediation arise, you will partner with cross-functional teams to track audit remediations through to completion. - Develop Metrics: Identify and develop audit program metrics that will monitor program health, inform program goals, and be leveraged to monitor and report out on audit program status. - Report to Leadership: Provide regular status updates, risk flags, and executive summaries to senior leadership regarding audit findings and the health of the audit program. You Have: - Experience: 7+ years of experience in Program Management, Compliance, Risk Management, or External Audit, preferably within the Technology sectors. - Regulatory Fluency: Demonstrated capability to become fluent in relevant regulatory frameworks, especially those focused on online safety. - Audit Management Skills: Proven ability to manage complex third-party audits (e.g., SOC2, ISO, Regulatory Audits) from scoping to final report. You understand audit terminology (controls, sampling, evidence) and can explain it to non-compliance audiences. - Legal Acumen: Experience working closely with Legal Counsel. You understand the concepts of privilege, risk exposure, and the importance of precise wording in regulatory submissions. - Cross-Functional Leadership: The ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority. You can motivate Engineering and Product SMEs to prioritize compliance tasks alongside their roadmap work. - Structured Organization: Exceptional project management skills with the ability to track hundreds of moving parts simultaneously using tools like Jira, Asana, Airtable or GRC platforms. - Communication Skills: You are an excellent writer and verbal communicator who can synthesize complex technical and legal concepts for diverse audiences. 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 $200,840 - $246,040 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.
Engineering Manager - Networking Infrastructure
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. Roblox is reimagining the way people come together to connect, create, and express themselves. To support our massive scale, we are powered by microservices. The Application Networking team connects and secures these services. Within this group, the Gateway Team is responsible for the "Front Door" of Roblox. We own the critical infrastructure that manages all traffic entering Roblox (Ingress) and traffic crossing major architectural boundaries. You Will: - Lead the Gateway team to deliver best-in-class traffic management infrastructure - Drive the design and implementation of major "Moonshot" initiatives - Consolidate our ingress stack and "Platformize" the gateway to enable extensibility for developer teams - Own the reliability of Tier-0 systems - Mentor engineers and team leads, ensuring sustainable on-call rotations and continuous career growth You Have: - 3+ years of engineering management experience, specifically managing teams responsible for high-scale distributed systems or networking platforms - Strong technical background in Layer 7 networking, HTTP/HTTPS, Reverse Proxies, and API Gateway patterns - Experience guiding teams through major architectural migrations (e.g., monolith to microservices, legacy proxy to modern mesh/gateway) - A track record of hiring and nurturing a high-performing engineering team - Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and handle complex product requirements 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 $293,800 - $343,340 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.
3D Artist
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. Roblox is seeking a 3D Artist with expertise in Key Art, Composition, and Cinematic Character Posing/Animation to join The Kitchen, our internal creative studio. In this role, you’ll help bring Roblox’s worlds, characters, and stories to life through cinematic animation, expressive posing, and high-impact visuals. In this hands-on role, you will be responsible for creating both motion and still imagery, delivering polished 3D Key Art and expressive Cinematic Character Animation that defines how millions of players experience Roblox across campaigns, trailers, and social moments. This role requires an expert eye for composition, lighting, and rendering to produce high-end visuals that serve as the visual heartbeat of Roblox's marketing and brand experiences. You Will: - Rig, pose, and render characters for static compositions, delivering polished assets for posters, banners, thumbnails, and social campaigns. - Animate characters, creatures, and props for cinematic sequences, gameplay trailers, and promotional content. - Develop expressive performances that convey personality, emotion, and narrative beats. - Build and stage environments that enhance composition and visual storytelling. - Collaborate closely with designers, marketers, editors, motion designers, and producers to create striking imagery that communicates story, mood, and brand identity. - Optimize assets for both high-resolution print and digital platforms. - Iterate quickly based on feedback from creative leads, ensuring alignment with brand and project goals. - Maintain efficient file structures and workflows for smooth handoff and versioning. You Have: - 5+ years of professional experience in 3D motion design, character animation, or video post-production. - Strong understanding of character rigging, anatomy, and motion principles. - Proven ability as a 3D character animator, with a demo reel showcasing expressive, polished animation. - Portfolio of key art / posed renders demonstrating strong composition, lighting, and storytelling. - Solid grasp of visual design fundamentals (composition, color, lighting, silhouette). - Proficiency in industry-standard tools and workflows (e.g., Cinema4D, Maya, Blender, ZBrush, Substance, Redshift), including preparing assets to be shared across Digital Content Creation applications. - Experience compositing or finishing renders in After Effects, Photoshop. etc. - The ability to adapt quickly to feedback and iterate in a collaborative environment. - Detail-oriented with a cinematic eye for storytelling. - Strong communicator, comfortable presenting work and receiving critique. 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 $116,470 - $146,720 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.
People Business Associate
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 an important part of the People Team, People Operations ensures that every Roblox employee has a great experience. This includes defining and driving core HR business programs, capturing comprehensive employment data, providing resources that detail HR practices and resolving employees' specific HR questions as they arise. We pride ourselves on achieving operational excellence across every service we provide and achieve this standard by optimizing HR business processes, guaranteeing HR data integrity, and using that information to inform down-stream processes and data-driven insights. You will report to the Director, People Business Operations. Role is based at Roblox HQs in San Mateo, CA. #LI-Hybrid You will: - Support Roblox managers and employees, inclusive of responding to their general process and policy questions and providing guidance on how to navigate specific employee situations - Assist managers with handling and resolving employee performance cases, accommodation requests and employee-impacting reorganizations - Own elements of HR service delivery and drive operational excellence through effective teamwork, robust data analysis and optimal process design - Build strong cross functional relationships with partners across the People team as well as Employee Relations, Legal, People Analytics and other key collaborators - Demonstrate the highest standard of confidentiality and build trusted, productive relationships with stakeholders through proactive, crisp and empathetic communications - Effectively utilize HR systems and reporting tools, maintaining data accuracy and integrity and conducting periodic strategic analysis to identify trends and inform business decisions You have: - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required - 5+ years of relevant Human Resources experience - [Preferred] Experience supporting employees outside of the US You are: - Able to focus, prioritize and multi-task in a fast-paced environment with competing demands and unclear goals while keeping stakeholders well informed of progress - Adept at owning and optimizing HR processes and programs, demonstrating exceptional organizational skills, attention to detail and follow through - Data savvy with a strong affinity for metrics, data analysis and using HR systems - An exceptional and highly responsive communicator who is able to convey sensitive messages with clarity, empathy and tact 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 $205,960 - $240,600 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.
Principal Software Engineer
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. Are you a seasoned engineer with a passion for reliability and scalability? We’re looking for exceptional Software Engineers with hands-on AI/ML experience to join the Reliability team at Roblox. In this pivotal role, you will drive the evolution of our systems, ensuring they meet the highest standards of performance, reliability, and efficiency. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to build robust infrastructure that supports our growth. If you have a track record of solving complex technical challenges, we want to meet you. We are the team that built the C3 and TACO systems mentioned in The Infrastructure Supporting Record-Breaking Experiences. Join us in shaping the future of our platform and delivering unparalleled value to our users. At Roblox, our vision is to achieve 1 billion daily active users. We believe this engineer will be instrumental in driving us towards that ambitious goal. You Will: - Lead a team of engineers (4+) to drive multi quarter projects to scale Roblox and make systems more efficient. - Build systems that leverage AI and ML to scale services and workloads across multiple geographical regions. - Build, automate and standardize process automation to create a “golden path” of tooling and platform support that powers the fundamental Roblox ecosystem. - Create performance monitoring services and observability towards understanding capacity issues and platform degradations. - Work with product teams across organizations to understand their most critical problems and solve them with software systems. You Have: - Experience: you have a BS degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science or related engineering field with at least 8 years of experience including at least 5+ years in Software Engineering or SRE. - Passion for systems: You have a track record of building distributed systems and getting them adopted. You care about reliability, efficiency, and user experience. - Technical Leadership: Ability to lead, coach, and mentor junior engineers - Experience optimizing end-to-end performance of distributed systems, including workload right-sizing and resource utilization tuning. - Deep curiosity for how things work under the hood and have a proven ability to work independently to solve opaque performance issues - Deep expertise in distributed systems at scale, with a strong focus on infrastructure reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement. You Are: - A Partner: You know that the best tools integrate broadly with the tooling ecosystem. You approach partners and processes with curiosity and seek to understand a problem deeply before you start coding. - A Builder: You design and build systems and products. You are hands on and proficient in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, C#, Rust, Java) and embrace AI coding agents. - Self-organized: you’re excited about getting in front of complex problems, organizing your work by any means possible; overcome emergent issues and contributing to long-running projects as a part of the team. - Problem Solver: you ask the right questions to solve issues within your expertise and you use data to test your theories. - Planner - You have experience in large project lifecycles. You have experienced working in sprints, breaking down complex tasks into milestones, and reporting status to keep project scheduling accurate. - Leader - Proven ability to Tech Lead a group of engineers to deliver on multi quarter projects 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 $295,250 - $345,040 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.
Knowledge Manager
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. About the Team At Roblox, our mission is to bring people together through the power of play. As the leading platform for creating and sharing games, we strive to create a safe and inclusive environment for our community. You will help us move away from manual drafting and towards AI-assisted content scaling, setting the standard for how modern Trust & Safety teams operate. We are looking for a highly skilled and passionate individual with a strong background in knowledge management and content moderation to join our team. If you are committed to promoting a positive and secure online experience for our users, then we want you to be a part of our team at Roblox. You Will: - Your core responsibility will be to transform complex, legalistic policy language into clear, structured operational instructions for human moderators, leveraging advanced prompt engineering and few-shot learning methodologies. - Execute Policy Implementation Testing. Before any policy launches, you will test draft guidelines against "Gold Label" (ground truth) data provided by policy partners. You will ensure that new rules score higher than existing baselines on enforceability metrics before approving them for deployment. - Work closely with Policy Managers and Product Support to translate complex safety philosophies into clear, digestible, and machine-readable logic. - Ensure all team members have access to accurate and up-to-date information and resources. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and address knowledge gaps and improve processes. - Stay up-to-date on industry trends and best practices in content moderation and trust and safety. - Monitor and analyze data to identify areas for improvement in knowledge management and content moderation. - Work closely with the Trust & Safety leadership team to develop and implement policies and procedures to maintain a safe and inclusive environment for our community. - Collaborate with product and engineering teams to develop tools and resources to enhance the effectiveness of content moderation. You Have: Minimum Qualifications: - You have extensive experience using LLMs to assist in creating technical documentation, knowledge bases, or process guides. You understand prompt engineering, context windows, and how to verify AI outputs for accuracy. - Proven experience in cross-functional work within T&S, Content Moderation, or complex Customer Support operations. - You don’t assume a document works because it "reads well." You believe in testing content against reality. You have experience validating processes before deployment. - Demonstrated ability to manage shifting priorities and handle time-sensitive critical harms launches (e.g., CSAM, Terrorism) with absolute precision. - You are comfortable looking at Quality Alignment scores and Ops metrics to determine if a policy is successful. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience building "Human-in-the-Loop" workflows where AI drafts content and humans validate it. - Background in Content Strategy, Information Architecture, or Technical Writing in a tech environment. 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 $162,000 - $205,960 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.
Director of Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
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 Roblox Finance team is in an exciting stage of growth and focused on building foundational capabilities for scale. You will serve as a critical early leader in the Corporate FP&A function, with a mandate to define, implement, and mature the team’s processes and operating model. The Corporate FP&A team will be responsible for company-wide financial planning and forecasting for our annual operating plan and long-range plans, and support ad hoc projects with cross-functional interactions. You will also partner closely with our functional FP&A partners and corporate leadership to create a comprehensive financial and operational outlook, and develop reports and analysis to understand company performance and shape decision-making. Given the foundational nature of this role, the ideal candidate will be willing to take on responsibilities to actively fill critical gaps and is enthusiastic about developing and co-creating a best-in-class finance team with the Senior Director, Finance. This role reports into the Senior Director, Finance and will be based in our San Mateo, CA headquarters (hybrid with Tues-Thur in office days). You will: - Manage Planning Coordination : Manage the company's annual, quarterly, and long-range planning (LRP) process and calendar, clearly communicating timelines and expectations to all stakeholders. Oversee corporate-level forecast consolidation including forecast reconciliation. - Lead Financial Statement Management : Lead the consolidation, reporting, and management of all financial statements (P&L, BS, and CF), including monthly and quarterly variance analysis and trend assessments. You will partner and build processes with our functional FP&A partners, BizOps, and Accounting to ensure timeliness and accuracy in order to surface meaningful insights to leadership. The Corporate FP&A team will also own other enterprise-level expenses such as taxes, insurance, interest, and so forth. - Be responsible for Reporting : Develop and oversee the creation of high-impact financial reporting packages, KPIs, and dashboards for senior management (e.g. CFO, Investor Relations, Board of Directors). Play a key role in the preparation and presentation of high-visibility financial summaries. Partner with SEC Reporting, Accounting, and functional FP&A teams to ensure alignment, accuracy, and completeness of consolidated financial data. - Manage Headcount Planning : Manage the headcount forecast and planning cycle, including all related people expenses (benefits, fringe, etc.). Mature the planning process with the People and Ops team in order to develop a robust yet agile headcount model for the business, and evolve the functional FP&A partners role in the process. - Manage Long-Range Planning : Manage the company’s long-range planning process for strategic alignment around key financial and operational objectives. You are expected to work closely with key stakeholders within Finance and cross-functionally that meaningfully contribute or impact our long-range plan. - Improve Operations : Mature current financial operations and processes to improve data integrity, scalability, reporting efficiency, and analytical depth. This requires cross-functional management and integration with functional FP&A partners. - Drive Systems & Automation : Drive the adoption of our financial tools (e.g., Pigment), navigate system architecture cross-functionally, and leverage AI to automate workflows in order to enhance forecasting accuracy and improve operational efficiency. Identify and implement process enhancements to improve data integrity, scalability, reporting efficiency, and analytical depth. - Oversee Team Development: This role will function as a player-coach and requires a strong hands-on work ethic as we maintain a small and high-impact Corporate FP&A function. This role is expected to oversee our System & Ops team. You have: - Bachelor’s degree from a top tier university; major in economics or quantitative field (math, science, finance/accounting) preferred or equivalent experience - 10+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance or other strategic finance roles. Public company experience is a strong plus and deep understanding of key accounting concepts required. - Highly organized with strong attention to detail with a dedication to data integrity. - Extensive experience with Pigment or other relevant ERP solutions (e.g. Anaplan). - Experience developing / automating management reports on financial and operational performance. Enthusiastic about the future of AI in Finance and interested in leveraging new tools to increase efficiency. - Proven track record of financial leadership in a fast-paced, dynamic environment - Proficient with Excel and slides - Experience with large datasets, SQL, Tableau and other BI tools a plus 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 $276,250 - $322,830 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.
Principal Product Designer, Social
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 Principal Product Designer on Social, you will shape how Roblox players socialize, communicate, and connect across immersive experiences. You’ll lead design for a key product area within Social—owning end-to-end execution from early discovery through launch and iteration. This is a high-impact, highly collaborative role where you’ll work closely with Product, Engineering, Research, Data Science, and Trust & Safety to deliver social experiences that are expressive, intuitive, and safe for a global audience. You Have - 10+ years of professional experience as a UX/Product Designer, including experience leading projects independently - A portfolio demonstrating strong craft, end-to-end product thinking, and shipped work with clear user and business impact - Experience designing consumer products, ideally in social, communication, community, or identity spaces - Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive alignment across cross-functional partners - A Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Ergonomics, or equivalent practical experience - Strong storytelling skills: Can clearly communicate design rationale to exec and cross-functional stakeholders (bonus) - Comfort designing across platforms (mobile, desktop, console/10ft) (bonus) - Experience building scalable patterns or contributing to design systems. (bonus) - Experience designing for safety-by-default systems (filtering, reporting, consent, privacy, integrity) (bonus) You Will - Lead design for a core area of Roblox Social, creating experiences that help users connect and communicate meaningfully - Own end-to-end feature design: research synthesis, concept exploration, prototyping, interaction design, visual polish, and final specs - Translate complex requirements (including safety and policy constraints) into clear, user-centered product solutions - Partner closely with Product and Engineering to shape roadmaps, define requirements, and drive decisions through tradeoffs - Collaborate with Research and Data Science to define success metrics, learn from experiments, and iterate based on insights - Ensure high-quality implementation through close collaboration with engineering and strong attention to detail - Contribute to team culture through critique, mentorship, and raising the bar for craft and clarity - Participate in interviewing and hiring, helping strengthen an inclusive design team 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 $304,560 - $362,740 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.
Director of Business Development, Payments
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. Roblox is currently at a critical inflection point in its financial evolution. We recently achieved a significant payout milestone to our Creator community in 2025. To successfully build upon this momentum year over year while controlling our costs, a world-class payments and wallets ecosystem is essential to ensure frictionless transactions across the platform for our Users and Creators. This role offers the rare opportunity to lead a 0-to-1 buildout of a new payments division. If successful, you will transition Roblox from standard payment processing to a strategic orchestration model, utilizing AI-driven approach to optimize significant transaction cost. Beyond cost savings, you will spearhead the transformation of our creator payouts, building a product designed to empower the livelihood of millions of developers through instant, transparent, and global financial access. You Will - Own Global Partnership Negotiation & Account Management: Lead RFPs and high-stakes contractual negotiations with major global payment processors (e.g., Stripe, PayPal, etc) and financial institutions. - Establish formal business relationships where none currently exist, securing advantageous commercial terms that are accretive to Roblox’s bottom line. - Build Payment Orchestration Strategy & Development: Lead the transition from current legacy systems to a multi-partner orchestration system. - Achieve optimal routing based on cost and conversion, potentially saving hundreds of millions of dollars in transaction fees in year one. - Transform Creator Payout : Drive the business strategy and partnerships required to modernize our existing infrastructure into a proprietary, end-to-end financial platform for creators to run their businesses on Roblox - Dramatically improve creator retention and satisfaction by reducing payout latency and fees, directly impacting "Time-on-Platform" and developer ecosystem growth. - Lead Cross-Functional Enterprise Deal Execution: Lead cross-functional deal teams comprising Legal, Finance, Privacy, and Engineering stakeholders. - Execute complex contracts that satisfy global regulatory compliance (KYB/KYC/AML) while ensuring speed-to-market for new financial features. - Expand into Emerging Markets: Develop a strategy for handling international currency exchange volatility and local payment methods in high-growth regions. - Unlock revenue in emerging markets by mitigating FX risk and reducing the barrier to entry for new developers. - Bridge Business & Engineering: Translate commercial opportunities into "second-level" technical requirements, such as ledger design and API integration standards. - Ensure the engineering roadmap is aligned with commercial viability, preventing technical debt and ensuring the infrastructure supports real-time global payments. - Optimize Performance : Implement a rigorous "Payment Excellence" framework to monitor authorization rates and fraud thresholds. - Deliver incremental revenue gains where even a 0.01% improvement in authorization rates translates to millions in retained bookings. - Future-Proofing for Agentic Commerce: Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies, including AI agents and blockchain rails, into the payments strategy. - Secure Roblox’s position as a leader in the future "agentic economy," where automated systems may negotiate and execute transactions on behalf of users. You Have - 10+ years of Business Development experience specifically within the Consumer Financial Services, Digital Payments, Fintech, or Digital Wallet sectors - Proven track record of a 0-to-1 buildout of a payments division or financial product line, demonstrating the ability to operate without established playbooks - Bilingual Fluency (Tech/Business): Ability to articulate complex technical concepts (API orchestration, tokenization, ledger systems) to engineers while simultaneously modeling multi-year economic impacts for C-suite executives. - Global Regulatory Acumen: Deep understanding of the global regulatory landscape, including PSD2, KYC/AML compliance, and card network rules, to navigate international expansion risks effectively. - Complex Negotiation Skills: Demonstrated success in negotiating and signing deals with payment networks, acquirers, and banks, effectively balancing unit economics with legal and privacy constraints. - Strategic Ecosystem Architecture: Ability to view payments not as a utility but as a strategic asset class, capable of designing partnerships that drive long-term ecosystem value rather than just transactional volume. - Analytical Rigor: Strong data processing and analytical skills to model ROI, forecasting, and "payment excellence" metrics (e.g., authorization rates, FX margins). - Leadership in Ambiguity: Experience thriving in unstructured, fast-moving environments where you must influence executive decision-making and manage multiple high-priority workstreams independently. 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 $276,310 - $310,810 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.
Principal Software Engineer - Studio Performance and Optimization
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 Principal Software Engineer on the Performance & Optimization pod in Studio , you will lead the architecture, design, and development of simulation, profiling, and debugging tools in Roblox Studio. Your work will help creators understand how their experiences perform across the full spectrum of devices, from high-end PCs to mobile, and give them the confidence to ship quality content at the speed of their imagination. You will: - Plan and deliver complex technical features E2E in our game engine and Studio UI that help creators understand and optimize their experiences - Work cross-functionally across teams and technology platforms to deliver consistent, high-quality tooling - Lead by example and mentor engineers on technological best practices, patterns, and strategies - Improve product quality by fostering automation testing and reliable systems - Participate in building the world's best professional application for massively multiplayer game development You Have: - 9+ years of professional experience developing complex, performance-sensitive software using modern C++ (C++11 and later) - Hands-on experience with multi-threaded programming and a strong understanding of concurrency, race conditions, and synchronization primitives - Experience delivering end-to-end on features that span multiple teams and technology platforms - A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience You are: - Experienced: Deep expertise with large-scale C++ systems and performance-critical code - Hands-on: Ability to deliver end-to-end and bring features from vision to shipped product - Collaborative: Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across team boundaries - Organized: Able to track multiple concurrent workstreams to their appropriate resolution - Curious: Passionate about developer experience and making complex systems understandable 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 $295,250 - $345,040 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.
Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Embodied AI and Smart NPCs
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 Principal Machine Learning Engineer within the Creator Services Machine Intelligence team, you will focus on the research and development of Embodied AI and Behavioral Agents that revolutionize how games are created and played on Roblox. You will bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and massive-scale product application, building agents capable of complex 3D gameplay and unblocking many use cases across Roblox, from automated playtesting to ensure quality, to "Smart NPCs" with human-like movement and strategic reasoning, playing with real players in games. You will work on Imitation Learning (IL), Reinforcement Learning (RL), Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Robotics, and Agentic Reasoning to create generalizable agents that can perceive 3D environments, understand game rules, plan long-term strategies, and execute complex physics-based actions. You Will: - Report to the Engineering Manager of Creator Services Machine Intelligence. - Design and implement foundation models for embodied agents that master both fluid, human-like movement and high-level strategic reasoning. - Define the long-term roadmap for Game AI and Embodied Intelligence, acting as a technical bar-raiser for code quality and architectural design. - Balance the exploration of cutting-edge deep learning research with the practical constraints of serving models to millions of concurrent users. - Mentor fellow engineers and researchers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and scientific inquiry. - Collaborate with Product Managers, Backend and Game Engine Engineers and other Roblox team members. You Have: - PhD or Master’s in Computer Science, Applied Math, or other field. A record of top-tier publications (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, AAAI, SIGGRAPH, etc) in embodied agents or related domains is a plus. - 7+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer or Research Scientist, applying research to tangible products. - Deep technical understanding of Imitation Learning, Robotics, Reinforcement Learning, Computer Graphics and Vision, with experience working on low-latency motor control (human-like movement) and high-level strategic reasoning (game rules/goals). - Proficiency in Python (PyTorch/TensorFlow) and familiarity with C#, C++, or similar systems languages. - Experience training models on large-scale distributed clusters and understanding the challenges of inference in real-time gaming environments. - A passion for bridging the gap between research and production, moving beyond academic benchmarks to launch scalable solutions that directly impact millions of users. 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 $345,040 - $399,420 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.
Operations and Analytics Associate
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. Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to Roblox to play, learn, work, and socialize in immersive digital experiences created by the community. Our vision is to build a platform that enables shared experiences among billions of users. This is what’s known as the metaverse: a persistent space where anyone can do just about anything they can imagine, from anywhere in the world and on any device. The breadth of opportunities, and the evolving demands of this first-of-its-kind platform, ensure that your avenues for growth are always expanding and flexible. Join us and you’ll usher in a new category of human interaction while solving exceptional challenges that you won’t find anywhere else. The Operations and Analytics team sits at the intersection of the Roblox platform and our most important brand partners. This role is a partner-facing position, which requires the ability to interact with our data using SQL, solve highly analytical problems, and communicate compelling narratives that address those problems. You'll help define and drive strategic, operational and organizational optimizations across the company with a focus on brand partners’ needs. You Will: - Join a self-starting environment and leverage data and analytics to learn new skills and become an expert on Roblox’s unique business model - Work closely with the Brand Partnerships team in identifying processes or capabilities that could benefit from product automation and development - Work closely with brand partners to understand and solve their most complex problems by digging into trends and providing actionable insights to partners and partner success managers - Skilled communicator, and able to facilitate conversations regardless of group size or seniority level - Able to work collaboratively with team members across departments (Leadership, XFN teams, Product, Engineering, etc.) - Create presentations and data stories to communicate success in our partnerships and why partners should continue growing their presence on Roblox - Conduct insightful analysis of major marketing initiatives to understand the drivers of successful projects on Roblox - Synthesize analysis and key insights into recommendations for senior leadership across Product, Business Development, and Finance teams You Have: - 4+ years working in an analytical business strategy role or other fast-paced environments (investment banking, private equity, or consulting) - Exhibit intellectual curiosity and an ability to synthesize large amounts of data to create actionable insights - Well-versed in SQL, Tableau, and other BI tools - Drive to develop a deep understanding of business issues and craft well thought out solutions - Advanced Excel skills to analyze data and create operational models along with clear presentation skills to communicate that analysis broadly and clearly 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 $202,340 - $240,980 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.
Principal Engineer - Creator Services
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 Principal Software Engineer on our Creator Services team, you will have an immediate impact on the building blocks of Roblox itself. You will be the technical leader for multiple teams of engineers. To give some examples of what we do, we run the mission-critical Cross-server Messaging Service , which is crucial for Roblox game developers to implement leaderboards, cross-server announcements, live operations and more. We own the developer APIs for HTTP calls and player traversal within and between games. We own the platform for all of Roblox’s Cloud HTTP APIs , enabling internal teams to support creator automation of tasks like community management, CI/CD and in-game economy management. If you enjoy working on modern distributed systems, products for developers, C# and C++ software, and networking challenges alongside highly-experienced and passionate engineers, you will be right at home on our growing Creator Services team. You Are - Experienced in industry: You have 7+ years of industry experience as a software engineer. - Experienced with Distributed Systems: You are deeply familiar and regularly work with concepts like stream processing, leader election, RPC, retry strategies, etc. - Experienced with native code: You have worked on deep and challenging problems in complex networked codebases, with 3+ years of experience in C++ to support working on full stack features that involve the Roblox engine & our backend systems. - Systems programming: You are familiar with raw & managed memory access, pointers, thread safety, locking primitives, inter-process communication methods, network sockets, HTTP etc. - Platforms : You can jump with ease between Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, and other platforms. You understand where platform-specific code is relevant. - Responsible: You build systems with proper telemetry, logging, operations and automated testing in mind. - Curious: You want to learn and stay up-to-date on technology developments, particularly in distributed systems. You Will - You will own the platform for product teams at Roblox to expose their APIs, authorize access to them, publish docs, and communicate with users. - You will develop new products and features that help creators make complex experiences including live game operations at many-million-player scale. - You will support core systems at massive scale including how players move between game servers, how game servers communicate with each other, and how experiences interact with on and off platform services. - Your work has the potential to directly move company metrics (e.g. through reducing loading times). - You will build solutions that will make Roblox work better on every device. - You will work on every application Roblox develops, from mobile phone clients to cloud-based servers and data pipelines. - You will take ownership of projects throughout their full lifecycles. 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 $293,800 - $343,340 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.
Senior Engineering Manager - Risk & Fraud
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. What You’ll Do: As an Senior Engineering Manager in Payments - Risk, you will lead the vision and execution for the core risk services that facilitate fiat monetary transactions on the platform. You will sit at the intersection of high-scale distributed systems and machine learning, building the architecture that protects a multi-billion dollar economy. You will not only drive the technical roadmap for risk detection but also shape the long-term vision for how Roblox’s economy grows with financial safety. This role is of extremely high importance, directly impacting Roblox's revenue, margins and user experience globally. You will be working directly with a number of cross-functional partners from Product teams, all the way to Finance and Accounting, influencing our business growth direction. Specifically, your team will be responsible for the mission-critical systems that handle: - Real-Time Risk & Fraud Decisioning: Architecting and maintaining low-latency engines that evaluate billions of data points in milliseconds to approve, challenge, or block transactions at the point of purchase. - Automated Chargeback & Dispute Management: Building the infrastructure to automate the lifecycle of payment disputes, leveraging machine learning to improve win rates and protect the platform’s revenue from friendly fraud and regional abuse. - AML & Compliance Orchestration: Developing systemic controls for compliance workflows, ensuring that all value movements meet global regulatory standards without introducing user friction. - Risk Feature Store & Backtesting Infrastructure: Owning the data pipelines and simulation environments that allow Data Scientists and Engineers to prototype, backtest, and deploy new risk models into production with zero downtime. You will: - Lead the Domain: Own the long-term health, roadmap, and execution of the Economic Risk across Roblox. - Manage Team Direction & Delivery: Oversee the daily execution of the engineering roadmap, ensuring the team efficiently delivers high-quality, reliable code on time. - Ensure Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as the primary engineering liaison, collaborating closely with Product Management, Finance, Legal/Compliance, and Risk teams to align on requirements, prioritize features, and ensure regulatory adherence (e.g., PCI DSS). - Define Architectural Strategy: Set the long-term technical vision and architectural roadmap for the team and underlying services to support billions of secure transactions globally. Define and implement the engineering standards that ensure a consistently high quality bar across the group. - Grow and cultivate an Impactful Team: Attract, hire, mentor, and coach top-tier software engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, engineering excellence, and continuous learning within the Foundation Pod. You Have: - Leadership and Tech Experience: - 10+ years of hands-on experience in software development, with a focus on building and operating highly scalable distributed systems . - 5+ years of direct experience managing and mentoring high-performing engineering teams. - Deep experience in the payments domain, specifically in fraud detection, chargeback mitigation, anti-money laundering (AML), or risk engine architecture. - Experience building and scaling real-time risk or fraud platforms at a global scale. - A strong track record of recruiting, developing, and retaining exceptional engineering talent. - Excellent communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical trade-offs and project status to technical peers, product managers, and executive leadership. - Familiarity with various global payment methods (e.g., credit cards, ACH, digital wallets, regional banking transfers) and the complexities of international funds acquisition. 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 $345,040 - $399,420 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.
Engineering Manager - Internal Talent Products
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. Roblox Operating System (ROS) is an internal platform that governs how we operate as a company. Via a holistic and integrated set of tools, ROS shapes our talent and personnel decisions, how work is planned and organized, how communication and knowledge is discovered, and ultimately how we scale effectively. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Talent Acquisition & Compensation (TACO) team, which sits within the ROS organization. This team is focused on product innovation to streamline our recruiting processes and build incredible compensation tools that help our Builders stay motivated and rewarded. This is an established team at Roblox, and we need a leader who can work with a high level of freedom and autonomy, advocate for best-in-class development practices, and collaborate with internal and external partners daily. You will have a massive impact on how we attract, retain, and motivate talent at Roblox. You will: - Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team focused on Talent Acquisition & Compensation (TACO) products within the ROS platform. - Define and execute the product and technical strategy for streamlining recruiting and building next-generation compensation tools. - Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and internal stakeholders (like HR, Recruiting, and Compensation teams) to deliver impactful solutions that help Roblox scale effectively. - Champion engineering excellence, advocating for best-in-class development practices, code quality, and system reliability. - Operate with a high degree of autonomy, managing project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables in a fast-paced, growing environment. - Partner with both internal and external teams to align on technical direction and ensure successful project execution. You have: - A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field. - 10+ years in software engineering, combining hands-on technical expertise with proven team leadership. History of successfully building complex, large-scale systems and guiding teams (5+) to deliver high-impact solutions. - 2+ years of experience in an engineering leadership or management role, with a passion for mentoring and developing engineers. - Strong technical background and a product-oriented mindset, with experience building internal tools or enterprise-level applications. - Excellent communication and cross-functional (XFN) management skills, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively with and navigate the needs of challenging technical and non-technical stakeholders. - A proactive and autonomous work style, comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving initiatives from concept to completion. 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 $293,800 - $343,340 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.
Developer Engagement Team (Contract)
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. Roblox is seeking enthusiastic individuals to join our Developer Engagement Team. The ideal candidate will possess a strong focus on understanding issues and critical thinking, alongside the essential qualities required for exceptional customer support. As a contractor of this team, you will play a crucial link between Roblox and its developer community. If you're passionate about the Roblox community and eager to contribute to the success of developers, we'd love to hear from you. You will: - Assist in resolving creator day-to-day escalations and emergencies. - Manage communication between Roblox staff and creators. - Maintain detailed records of customer interactions and transactions, ensuring accurate documentation and timely follow-up. - Dedicate up to 40 hours per week, primarily Monday through Friday, with occasional weekend availability (on-call or scheduled as business needs require). You have: - Strong verbal and written communication skills. - Demonstrates endless patience and a positive attitude. - Capable of managing time effectively. - In-depth understanding of Roblox and the Roblox community. - Solid knowledge of the technical aspects of Roblox Studio. - Experience developing on Roblox and/or other creation platforms. Please note: the benefits below only apply to full time employees in the US. This role is based in the UK/EU. Pay rate is based off USD and will be converted to GBP/EUR upon hire. 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 hourly rate could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Please note that not all benefits on this page are applicable to this hourly position. Hourly Pay Range $20 - $20 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.
[2026] Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Engine Optimization - PhD Early Career
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. Our engine’s resource management and streaming systems are critical to delivering a smooth, stable, and responsive experience for Roblox users across a huge range of devices and network conditions. These systems work together to intelligently allocate compute, memory, bandwidth, and rendering quality while dynamically delivering world content in real time as players move, explore, and interact. The challenges span highly dynamic environments, unpredictable user behavior, and opaque signals from device and OS constraints. This role offers a rare opportunity to pioneer the application of machine learning in real-time engine optimization. You will establish the ML framework for predictive resource allocation and content fetching, replacing heuristic-based logic with adaptive, data-driven decision-making. Your work will directly shape stability, visual quality, responsiveness, and content delivery across billions of global play sessions. You Will - Analyze massive-scale engine performance, streaming patterns, and user behavior telemetry to uncover optimization opportunities and guide the long-term ML roadmap. - Design ML models that infer player and interaction patterns for predictive resource management and content delivery. - Build adaptive control systems that translate ML outputs into real-time adjustments of fidelity and system decisions, ensuring high-quality experiences without compromising stability or latency. - Collaborate with core engine and performance engineering teams to integrate ML solutions directly into the critical path of gameplay across multiple platforms. - Define the architectural strategy for deploying and scaling ML across resource management and streaming components at massive global scale. You Have - Strong expertise in applied ML—such as reinforcement learning for control, predictive modeling (especially time-series and intent inference), trajectory prediction, or real-time optimization. - Proficiency in C++, Python, Go, Java, or similar languages, with experience deploying ML models in performance-critical systems. - A solid understanding of systems-level concepts (memory management, threading, OS signals) or a deep interest in learning them. - A track record of solving complex optimization problems or integrating ML into real-time systems, ideally in gaming, simulation, robotics, or mobile environments Apply now to be considered for anticipated positions. You may redact age, date of birth, and dates of attendance/graduation from your resume if you prefer. As you apply, you can find more information about our process by signing up for Speak_. You'll gain access to our practice assessment, comprehensive guides, FAQs, and modules designed to help you ace the hiring process. 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 $195,780 - $242,100 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.
People Data Scientist
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 People Science & Analytics team at Roblox partners with our People, Places, & Systems organization to apply data science, applied statistics, and analytics to our internal operations. We deliver insights and solutions that shape Roblox's approach to leadership, people development, and organizational culture. As a Data Scientist in the People Analytics pod, you will join this team to solve complex challenges using qualitative and quantitative data, driving strategic decisions across the company. We are responsible for developing and managing Roblox’s HR data warehouse, analytical tools, and reports which support data-driven HR initiatives and are used by internal stakeholders throughout the company. You will: - Serve as an analytics consultant to key partners in HR, Talent Acquisition, and Finance where you will apply your expertise in data science, applied statistics and analytics engineering to build tooling and identify insights that drive strategic and operational improvement - domains located below. - Conduct end-to-end analyses on large, complex datasets to diagnose operational challenges, tell a compelling story, and provide actionable recommendations to executive leadership. - Design, build, and maintain data products and automated workflows that scale our team's analytical offerings and support our partners' long-term needs. - Uphold a high standard for data integrity and analytical rigor, working through ambiguity to produce clear, defensible insights. You have: - A MBA / Master's degree, PhD, or equivalent experience in Data Science Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, or other quantitative fields. - 4+ years of professional experience with SQL. - 4+ years of statistical programming in R/Python and/or analytics engineering experience in Python - 4+ years of professional experience with BI Tools (Tableau, Looker, Hex, etc.) - Proven ability to execute complex and cross functional projects from ideation through completion. - Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work through ambiguity to delivery on projects that have driven organizational change. - Proven ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences and discuss appropriate tradeoffs. - Highly self-driven and intellectually curious with a growth mindset focused on maximizing organizational impact. - A consistent track record to learn quickly and works well both independently as well as in a team setting. At least two or more of the following: - 2+ years of experience with enterprise HR/People data systems (e.g., Greenhouse, Workday, Qualtrics) and/or experience working with non-technical operations teams. - 2+ years of experience in causal inference, experimental design, and statistical modeling. - 2+ years of experience with data orchestration and transformation tools (e.g., Airflow, dbt) and deploying data pipelines. People Analytics Domains at Roblox - Talent Acquisition - Employee Performance Programs - Workforce Planning - People Data Governance - Facilities and Office Planning - HR Operations - Partnering with Internal Tooling to build people products - Building our People Datalake 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 $184,760 - $242,180 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.
Principal Software Engineer - Creator Success
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 Backend Engineer, you will have the independence, opportunity, and end-to-end responsibility to help us build a critical, complex set of backend systems that support the creators of games and other experiences within our Roblox ecosystem. The Creator Success Team empowers Roblox to be the best development platform for creating 3D social experiences, allowing our creators to publish compelling content within the Roblox ecosystem. This includes services and solutions around the Creator Hub, Developer Forum, and Creator Dashboard. You will create and own mission-critical services in this cross-discipline team within our Roblox ecosystem. As a team, we believe in fast iteration and are biased toward action while keeping the long view. We have numerous exciting projects ahead of us for the years to come, including but not limited to: - Build ML-driven services and large scale data pipeline to drive player insights and optimise monetization opportunities for creators - Build next generation communication platform providing creators with powerful tools to manage the player community, organize virtual events, and collect player feedback - Build a state-of-the-art remote configuration/experiment platform to enable the continued growth of games with the world's largest concurrent user(CCU) You will - Lead technical decision-making and guide the development team. - Lead engineering and development for our services and systems at a massive scale - Collaborate with cross-functional and cross-team leaders to push the boundary of what is possible - Self-organize and take ownership of projects throughout their full lifecycle. You have - Experience in industry: An outstanding software engineer with 8+ years of industry experience - Experience with Distributed Systems: You are deeply familiar with and regularly work with concepts like stream processing, data pipeline, queue, RPC, retry strategies, etc - Experience with native code: You have worked on deep and challenging problems in complex networked codebases, with 3+ years of experience in C#, Java, Go, or any other object-oriented programming languagePlatforms: You can jump with ease between Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, and other platforms. You understand where platform-specific code is relevant. - Responsibility: You build systems with proper monitoring, logging, operations, and automated testing in mind.Teamwork: A team player and love collaborating with others to push the boundaries and challenge the status quo 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 $295,250 - $345,040 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.
Core Engine Developer - Systems (C++)
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 Engine Networking Team pulls the players together by ensuring the communication of the game state to all. As a Principal Network Transport Engineer you will help the players experience the game as a nearly synchronous world. Just as the nerves in our bodies coordinate our actions, the network system coordinates all the computers involved into a smooth experience for the players. You will work in all areas of the game platform in your quest for real-time communication of every part of Roblox. You Have: - Worked on a powerful user-space network stack, solving problems related to scale, performance, latency, and throughput in client/server environments. - Worked on a very large multithreaded distributed system that connects millions of users worldwide. - Worked on all the devices Roblox supports - from desktop clients to mobile phone clients to console clients - Worked on a game engine and understand how a game engine works You Are: - A software engineer with 4+ years of experience with Game networking coming from a Game Engine/Studio - A deep understanding of Network Stack with a passion for working with open source - Strong systems-level C++ programming experience and fascinated by the actual work the CPU does when you use smart pointers, templates, virtual functions, and blocks of memory, both structured and raw - Experience with Linux networking and have a good understanding of common network protocols - Keen to each millisecond of the network exchanges: You know where the time goes and how to reduce the waste - Understanding of what happens on the operating systems level when certain code is completed 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 $195,780 - $242,100 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.
Senior Data Scientist - Generative AI
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. WHY DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS? The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency, and acumen in making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum, including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling, and machine learning. Aligned and partnered with product verticals, we use this extensive tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and craft the product roadmap, and prioritize, build data products, and measure impact on our community of players and developers. WHY GENERATIVE AI? Our team’s mission is twofold: to enable Roblox Creators to bring GenAI capabilities to millions of users, and to empower Roblox Creators and our own engineers with AI-backed tools to deliver value faster. We drive this innovation with a core commitment to safety, responsibility, and quality. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will play a critical role in a key area within our Foundation AI team: - Engineering Efficiency and Code Intelligence: Building the metrics, analytics, experimentation foundation, and AI workflow that powers how Roblox engineers and creators build and ship with AI and intelligent code systems. Whether you are focused on the end-user experience or the developer ecosystem, you will define how we measure safety, responsibility, quality, and efficiency. You will combine annotation analysis, design of experiments, causal inference, model-based evaluation methods (such as LLM-as-a-judge), optimization algorithm, and AI models to drive product decisions and model improvements. You Will: - Develop Evaluation Frameworks: Design and operationalize rigorous evaluation systems for either GenAI features (text, image, video, 3D, 4D) or internal AI Agents (Code Review, Refactor, Test Gen). This includes eval experiment design, dataset design, label reliability analysis, and implementing and finetuning LLM-as-judge methods. - Run Rigorous Experiments: Conduct online experiments (A/B tests) and causal inference to quantify the impact of GenAI features or AI-assisted coding tools. You will identify opportunities, measure lift, and ensure statistical rigor. - Define Success Metrics: Partner with cross-functional teams to define leading/lagging indicators—whether for GenAI safety and user satisfaction, or for engineering productivity and code health. - Build Automated Systems: Research and apply state-of-the-art methodologies to build reproducible evaluation tooling and agentic workflows that lift rigor and efficiency across the company. - Drive Strategy & Visibility: Develop dashboards and reporting frameworks that reveal trends (e.g., model performance or developer friction) and translate complex data into clear, prioritized recommendations for leadership. You Have: - Advanced Degree: PhD or Master’s in Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field. - Experience: 5+ years of experience in data science, analytics, or a quantitative role. - Technical Proficiency: Strong proficiency in SQL (Hive/Spark) for manipulating large datasets and scripting languages (Python or R) for analysis and modeling. - Experimentation and Causal Inference: A solid grounding in experimentation, causal inference, and statistical analysis, including test design and metric design for feature impact. - Problem Solving: A demonstrated track record of framing ambiguous problems, designing analytical approaches, and solving open-ended data science problems that drive business impact. - Learning Agility: Ability to effectively and responsibly use AI tools to enhance productivity and a passion for continuously improving methods in a fast-evolving field. - GenAI Familiarity: Familiarity with GenAI models and safety/quality evaluation methods. Expertise in the model training lifecycle is a plus (e.g., fine-tuning, RLHF, or synthetic data generation). - Engineering Development Workflow: Experience with engineering development workflows and engineering efficiency data is a plus for the Engineering Efficiency and Code Intelligence role. - Applied Research Background: A track record of applied research or publications in relevant technical fields is highly valued. 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 $220,300 - $262,380 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.
Principal Software Engineer, Data Engineering
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 Data Engineering team at Roblox plays a crucial role in enabling the company's success by developing and maintaining highly leveraged Core Data Sets, frameworks, and tooling to support the growing demand for analytics. As a Principal Data Engineer, you will work to define the data ontology for all of Roblox, establish best practices and standards for data operations and lifecycle management, design and build analytics tooling and frameworks, and influence event instrumentation. Additionally, this role is highly cross-functional, requiring close collaboration with Data Science, Experimentation, and Machine Learning teams to understand customer requirements and analytics applications, as well as with Data Infrastructure and Storage teams to develop integrated solutions. Join us and be a part of a dynamic team driving innovation and growth at Roblox. You Will: - Partner with Data Science, Data Platform, Product, and Engineering to collect requirements to define the data ontology for all of Roblox - Lead and mentor a growing team of Data Engineers to support Roblox's ever-evolving data needs - Design, build, and maintain efficient and reliable batch and streaming data pipelines to model business entities as core data sets - Develop scalable frameworks and tooling to automate analytics workflows and streamline users interactions with data products - Establish and evangelize best practices for data operations and lifecycle management You Have: - 8+ years of professional experience working building scalable ETL pipelines on industry standard ETL orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Luigi, Google Cloud Composer, etc.) with deep expertise in SQL, PySpark, or scala. - 3+ years leading data engineering development directly with business or data science stakeholders - Built, scaled, and maintained Multi-Terabyte data sets and have an expansive toolbox for debugging and unblocking large scale analytics challenges (skew mitigation, sampling strategies, accumulation patterns, data sketches, etc.) - Experience with at least one major cloud's suite of offerings (AWS, GCP, Azure). - Developed or enhanced ETL orchestrations tools or frameworks - Worked within standard GitOps workflow (branch and merge, PRs, CI / CD systems) 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 $295,250 - $345,040 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.
Senior Hardware Engineer - GPU & AI Infrastructure
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 member of the Infrastructure Foundation Hardware Engineering team, you will play a key role in enabling our mission to deliver a reliable, high-performing, and cost-efficient infrastructure that powers the world’s play. In this specialized role, you will be the technical lead for our GPU and AI accelerator ecosystem. You will be responsible for the full lifecycle of GPU hardware, from initial architectural evaluation and firmware qualification to large-scale fleet integration and performance tuning. You will ensure that Roblox’s massive-scale rendering and ML workloads run on the most optimized and stable hardware possible. You Will: - Architect & Prototype: Prototype next-generation GPU-accelerated hardware platforms, ensuring seamless integration between high-density compute nodes, high-speed interconnects (NVLink/PCIe Gen5/6), and system firmware. - GPU Optimization: Drive the integration, performance testing, and debugging of GPUs in our fleet, focusing specifically on hardware-level optimizations, driver tuning, and thermal/power management. - Validation & Certification: Develop and execute rigorous evaluation and stress-testing strategies for GPU-heavy server platforms to ensure they meet Roblox’s unique demands for real-time rendering and low-latency AI inference. - Firmware & Systems: Lead firmware qualification (BIOS/BMC) and troubleshooting, implementing automation systems to manage GPU health, firmware updates. - Vendor Collaboration: Provide technical guidance and deep-dive feedback to hardware vendors. Lead critical investigations into component-level failures, triaging issues across the hardware, driver, and kernel layers. - Observability: Build and maintain advanced monitoring stacks (Grafana/Prometheus) to track GPU metrics like HBM utilization, thermal throttling events, and PCIe bandwidth saturation. You Have: - Education: BA/BS Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field with equivalent practical experience. - GPU Expertise: 5+ years of hardware engineering experience with a specific focus on GPU architecture (NVIDIA HGX/MGX platforms preferred), AI accelerators, or high-performance compute (HPC) systems. - Deep Technical Knowledge: In-depth understanding of modern data center technologies, including PCIe fabric, NVLink, InfiniBand, and liquid cooling systems for high-TDP hardware. - Testing Skills: Hands-on experience testing and validating CPU, Memory (HBM/DDR5), Storage (NVMe), and high-speed networking subsystems in a Linux environment. - Programming: Proficiency in Python, Go, or C++ for developing hardware validation tools and automation scripts. - Systemic Debugging: Expert-level skills in debugging complex server issues remotely, with the ability to analyze kernel logs, hardware registers, and bus-level captures. You Are: - A Problem Solver: Decisive and effective at tracking hardware issues from identification through to fleet-wide resolution. - A Communicator: Excellent oral and written communication skills; able to translate complex hardware constraints into actionable insights for software teams. - Collaborative: Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to lead cross-functional projects with Data Center Ops, SRE, and external vendors. - Adaptable: Willing to travel occasionally to data centers or vendor sites to oversee hardware deployments or "first-of-a-kind" builds. 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 $242,100 - $293,800 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.
Quality Engineer, Game Engine
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. We are seeking a passionate and skilled QA Engineer to join our QA team. In this role, you will focus on automating testing processes while collaborating closely with various engineering teams to enhance the quality of our gaming platform. You will play a crucial role in the development and implementation of automated testing strategies, ensuring our products meet the highest standards of quality. You Will - Automation Development: Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for new and existing features using Python, Lua, and C++. - Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD): Define and implement required test services and components for CI/CD pipelines. - Testing Tools: Utilize tools like TestRail for test case management, Jira for bug tracking, Confluence for documentation, and Figma for QA workflows. - Test Planning: Create and maintain quality test plans and test cases, ensuring thorough coverage across multiple gaming platforms (PC/Mac, iOS/Android, consoles, VR). - Collaboration: Partner with engineering teams (Avatar, Audio, Video, etc.) to provide specialized QA support and drive QA initiatives from planning through to final release. - Coordination: Work with internal QA teams and offshore members to coordinate testing efforts and streamline communication. - Identify Automation Opportunities: Recognize areas for automation within manual test cases and convert them into efficient automated tests. - Documentation: Review and create comprehensive documentation for test cases, results, and automation frameworks. You Have - Experience: 3-5 years of hands-on QA engineering experience, specifically in writing test plans, test suites, and test cases within the gaming industry. - Coding Skills: Experience with Python (or equivalent) is required and understanding of Lua is a plus. - Automation Frameworks: Experience with automation frameworks and a desire to grow in this area. - Automation Focus: A strong emphasis on automation (60-70% of responsibilities) with a desire to advance automation skills. - Passion for Gaming: A deep interest in gaming and game development, with a solid understanding of gaming platforms. - Game Engines: Experience with game engines such as Unity, Unreal or Roblox Studio is required. - Team Coordination: Proven experience working with offshore QA teams, enhancing collaboration and communication. You Are - Roblox Development: Familiar with Roblox development processes is a plus. 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 $132,380 - $157,660 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.
Senior/Principal AI Data and Feature Platform Engineer
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. Power the Future of AI at Roblox! Join the AI Platform team at Roblox, where we are building the infrastructure that enables world-class AI/ML experiences. Our mission is to empower developers and creators by providing scalable, high-performance systems that drive AI innovation at an unprecedented scale. As an AI Platform Engineer specializing in ML Infrastructure, Training data Infrastructure and Feature Store Infrastructure, you will design and build next-generation ML data platforms, enabling AI applications across recommendations, search, safety, content generation, fraud detection, and more. Your work will directly impact millions of users, supporting AI-driven experiences across the entire Roblox ecosystem. Why This Role? - Massive Impact: Your contributions will support billions of daily interactions, powering AI-driven experiences across gaming, learning, social connections, and digital creativity. - End-to-End Ownership: Be a key architect in defining and building Roblox’s Training Data pipelines and Feature Store infrastructure from the ground up. - Cutting-Edge Growth: Work at the intersection of AI/ML, data engineering, and distributed systems, solving some of the most complex large-scale challenges in the industry. You will: - Develop a scalable Feature Store: Architect and implement a system that supports both batch and real-time feature computation, storage, and serving, enabling low-latency AI inference at scale. Develop Sequence Feature Stores to collect raw user events and power training of transform models for recommendation engines at Roblox. - Develop Roblox’s first training data platform: Architecture and engineer training data collection, reusability and reliability while solving world class engineering problems like point-in-time joins, feature injection. Power batch and realtime model training. - Engineer large-scale ML data pipelines: Design, optimize, and maintain high-throughput streaming and batch ETL pipelines that ingest, process, and serve billions of records per day. - Build a feature engineering framework to empower 100s of machine learning engineers to develop, author, experiment and productionize millions of signals into the system quickly, easily and reliably. - Enable online and offline inference: Ensure real-time, low-latency feature access for AI inference while maintaining consistency and robustness for batch model training. - Collaborate with cross-functional AI teams: Partner with ML researchers, data engineers, and product teams to build the next-gen AI infrastructure that fuels innovation at Roblox. - Research & innovate: Stay at the forefront of AI infrastructure by exploring the latest in VectorDBs, Feature Stores, Graph ML, Agentic Systems and Real-time AI serving. You have: - 5+ years of experience in AI/ML data infrastructure, feature stores, training data infrastructure. Experience working with industry leading NoSql databases like DynamoDB, Cassandra, cockroachDB and many more. - Expertise in building scalable ML data pipelines for both batch and real-time environments. - Strong software engineering skills with experience in distributed computing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Flink, Ray) and real-time data systems (e.g., Kafka, Redis, DynamoDB). - Deep knowledge of ML Feature Stores (e.g., Feast, Tecton, Vertex AI Feature Store) and embedding/vector search infrastructure. - Familiarity with Knowledge Graphs and graph-based ML applications (e.g., Neo4j, TigerGraph, AWS Neptune). - A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field 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 $277,170 - $343,340 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.
[2026] Applied Scientist - PhD Intern
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. Roblox is spearheading the future of immersive entertainment with the ambitious goal of dominating 10% of the gaming market. Join us to tackle challenges that enable AI-driven creation and massive concurrency for a global community where innovation meets safety. During this 12 or 16 week internship, you will drive a project from ideation to experimentation, production or publication, with the possibility of continued collaboration beyond the internship.Your project will focus on the hardest problems in tech today affecting massive scale with 112+ million daily active users. We support experimentation and production with top researchers, engineers, faculty, and PhD candidates globally that can lead to publications at esteemed venues. Teams Hiring For This Role: - Search and Discovery: powers major recommendation surfaces—conducting cutting-edge research in generative modeling, multimodal and MLLM technologies, designing advanced agentic AI algorithms to solve business requirements while achieving technical breakthroughs. - Economy: Expand the ML backbone powering monetization, marketplace, and payments, solving problems related to fraud, pricing, and personalization - Ads & Brands: Evolve the intersection of recommendation systems, ranking, and marketplace/auction theory to optimize sponsored content delivery - Safety: Create scalable AI for real-time safety & moderation using LLMs, NLP, and computer vision to safeguard text, voice, and accounts. - Engine: Develop innovative technology for our immersive 3D graphics, advancing geometry, physics simulation, motion diffusion models, and scalable distributed systems - Creator: Empower creators with generative AI and NLP technologies, building intuitive tools for automated content understanding and real-time localization - Foundational AI : Design and train 3D foundational models and optimize large-scale inference systems, enabling intelligent 3D content generation. - Infrastructure: Build systems that ensure the reliability and scalability of Roblox’s datacenter, backbone, and edge networks, which support all of our production services. You Will - Prototype and experiment with advanced AI, machine learning, and 3D technologies to solve real-world challenges at scale - Translate cutting-edge research into production-ready features by working alongside world class engineering and product teams - Develop and deliver solutions that enhance user experience, safety, and creativity on a global platform You Have - Possessing or pursuing a PhD in computer science, engineering, or a related field, with a thesis aligned to Roblox’s research areas. - Deep expertise in a relevant technical domain such as deep learning , computer vision , NLP , reinforcement learning , or distributed systems . - Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C++, Go, Java) and experience building and optimizing large-scale systems. - A strong research track record, evidenced by multiple publications and presentations in top-tier, peer-reviewed venues. You may redact age, date of birth, and dates of attendance/graduation from your resume if you prefer. 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 hourly rate could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Please note that not all benefits shown on this page are applicable to internship opportunities. Hourly Pay Range $72 - $72 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.
Senior Machine Learning - Avatar, Core AI
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 Machine Learning Engineer, you will work on challenging problems leveraging state-of-art AI/ML to empower a new generation of Roblox experiences for our growing community of users. We are looking for senior AI/ML engineers to lead the vision of low compute cost, in experience machine learning at Roblox, taking leads on designing core components of on-device ML operations. We are designing a system for advancing model architecture, enabling more efficient deployment to cloud and client, while delivering on complex operations including Generative AI model deployment. The engineer will be driving the architecture optimization across a large range of compute devices, making efficient use of available compute resources. Join us in our exciting journey! You will: - Develop and implement state-of-the-art ML models - Stay up-to-date with the latest research in ML and related fields, and apply this knowledge to improve the model performance - Establish a pipeline for delivering Roblox ML model on range of computing devices - Build cross-functional partnership on deployment and architecture optimization - Design and implement primary components of the in-experience machine learning system. You have: - - 2+ years experience in developing machine learning models, preferably in image, video, audio or 3D representations with Python - A strong understanding of deep learning frameworks including PyTorch and Tensorflow. - Experience in shipping ML features in production environments, including low powered devices. - Excellent cross-functional skills, partnering with organization leaders, driving to a conclusion. - Knowledge in state-of-the-art deep learning network architectures and primitives. - Experience with model optimization techniques. 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 $195,780 - $242,100 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.
Principal Engine Programmer - Systems (C++)
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 Engine Networking Team pulls the players together by ensuring the communication of the game state to all. As a Principal Engineer on this team you will help the players experience the game as a nearly synchronous world. The networking and asset loading team plays a key role in a smooth experience for the players. You will work in all areas of the game platform in your quest for real-time communication of every part of Roblox. You Will: - Lead engineers with 8+ years of industry experience - Understand the game networking with a passion for working with open source - Be experienced with asset loading, rendering, and networking coming from a Game Engine/Studio. (Desirable) - Be an amazing systems-level C++ programmer and be fascinated by the actual work the CPU does when you use smart pointers, templates, virtual functions, and blocks of memory, both structured and raw - Have a keen to each millisecond of the network exchanges: You know where the time goes and how to reduce the waste - Understand what happens on the operating system level when certain code is completed You Have: - Worked on the guts of a multi-player game engine, solving problems related to scale, performance, latency, and throughput in client/server environments. - Worked on a very large multithreaded distributed system that connects millions of users worldwide. - Worked on the devices Roblox supports - from desktop clients to mobile phone clients to console clients 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 $293,800 - $343,340 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.
Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Engineering Acceleration
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. Why Engineering Acceleration? The Engineering Acceleration AI Infrastructure Pod acts as Roblox’s center of excellence for applying AI to software engineering. We develop the Code Intelligence components of the Builder AI Platform, enabling first-party agents to automate engineering toil such as refactoring and unit test generation At Roblox, we aren't just trying to build another autocomplete tool or a basic LLM wrapper; we are architecting a Code Intelligence platform. Our mission is to move beyond simple code suggestions and into the realm of "agentic reasoning", creating a system that understands the deep, multi-dimensional context of a massive, 20-year-old engine and can autonomously handle the mechanical toil of modern development. As AI makes it possible to generate code at an unprecedented velocity, our team’s focus shifts from writing code to maintaining quality, safety, and performance at a planetary scale. We are building the reasoning layer and the "Human-in-the-Loop" (HITL) gates that ensure this AI-driven evolution doesn't compromise the stability of a platform serving 100M+ daily active users. We aren't just using the industry standard; we are inventing the new one . Joining this team means you will be a leader, bridging the gap between our AI teams, Eng Acceleration and Feature devolvement teams. We are looking for a visionary who can build platforms and first-party agents that don't just suggest code, but actually understand how to refactor, tune, and evolve the Roblox ecosystem. You Will: - Architect the Reasoning Layer and design systems that allow agents to navigate a billion-line codebase with high precision. - AI Workload Optimization: Ensure our AI infrastructure is performant and cost-effective as it scales to become our primary compute driver. - Lead New Techniques: Develop new methods for synthetic data generation and agent evaluations that outperform current industry benchmarks. You Have: - Beyond "Off-the-Shelf": We are looking for an expert who can move past basic LoRA or full-parameter fine-tuning to implement Reinforcement Learning from Compiler Feedback (RLCF) and Domain-Specific Distillation. - Code-Specific Optimization: The goal is to fine-tune models to understand the unique constraints of the Roblox Luau language, our internal APIs, and our proprietary high-performance engine architecture. - Continuous Learning Loops: Architecting the infrastructure that allows our models to "learn" from every human-corrected diff, ensuring our internal models stay ahead of general-purpose industry standards. You Are: - Comfortable with Ambiguity: You thrive in undefined or open-ended problem spaces, providing structure, clarity, and decisive direction to your teams. - A Pragmatic Builder: You are scrappy and impact-oriented. You view undefined data and messy systems as opportunities to build structure rather than blockers to progress. - An Inspiring Leader: Passionate about developing the next generation of technical leaders, managers, and engineers. - An Executive Communicator: Highly effective at communicating complex technical concepts to both engineering teams and non-technical executive leadership. - Data & System Oriented: You understand that robust data and systems are the foundation of any production application, and you design infrastructure for scale, correctness, and reliability. - Curious & Creative : You enjoy tackling hard problems, exploring new technologies, and driving continuous improvements in both systems and workflows. 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 $345,040 - $399,420 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.
Engineering Manager, Notifications
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. WHY NOTIFICATIONS? With Roblox’s daily active users growing at a record pace, we are seeking an Engineering Manager who thrives on solving complex challenges and designing scalable, ground breaking solutions. In this role, you will lead that team that owns the backend, relevance and client systems that power Notifications across the Roblox ecosystem. These systems are responsible for the delivery of hundreds of millions of notifications triggered by users, devs and the platform across various surface areas such as push notifications, email, toast, stream, and more. You Will: - Shape and grow a high-performing engineering team. Support engineers, ranging from junior to principal, in their development. - Foster a team culture of collaboration, innovation, and engineering excellence; while getting things done. - Take responsibility for high-scale systems to deliver Notifications to users on Roblox. Operate creatively to serve the needs of the community and Roblox. - Own the team’s mission and outcomes. Work with stakeholders to define the team’s roadmap, and ensure execution. - Partner with PM, Design, Data, and stakeholders across Roblox, to develop innovative solutions.. You Have: - 2+ years of experience as an engineering manager or tech lead manager. - Excellence in collaborating with others, and in developing software engineers. You have demonstrated outcomes of facilitating team success. - A proven track record of technical delivery in high-scale environments with complex constraints - Ability to contribute to architecture and implementation discussions around high-scale ML systems - Experience solving difficult problems involving both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders You Are: - Resourceful: You're able to navigate tough constraints to find the best solution. You stay laser-focused on the end goal and are adaptable, creative, and strategic to achieve it. - Solution Oriented: You start with the problem to be solved, and stay laser-focused on getting it solved. You can tackle anything that comes your way, whether it’s a technical problem, a business problem, or a people problem. - Team Oriented: You are constantly looking at how to make the team stronger – both the team you directly manage, and the team of peers you collaborate with. - Empathetic: You can put yourself in the shoes of anyone – a junior engineer, an executive, an adversarial attacker, a new user – and understand their needs. 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 $295,250 - $345,040 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.
Senior Rendering Engineer
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. Join some of the best Graphics Engineers in the world supporting the largest immersive 3D streaming environment deployed across console, desktop, mobile, and VR. - Scalability: Roblox provides a platform that guarantees to the creators that their games will always and automatically run on different devices, with cross-platform play and minimal load times. - Compatibility: Roblox games and assets made in the past, are still working today. Rendering has to have an eye to the past, and an eye to the future… - Community: Roblox games are made by creators of all experience levels, from professionals who earn their living on the platform to kids who are learning to program using Roblox! As a Game Rendering Engineer, you will solve difficult challenges, while continuing to build a high-speed, completely dynamic environments connected on all devices. Many established rendering techniques do not trivially apply to our platform - novel solutions are needed as we push Roblox towards higher targets of visual fidelity. Even the simpler visuals we support on low-power devices are enabled by some creative rendering ideas, often centered around caching, incremental computation and graceful degradation. All of this is based on an in-house rendering engine built from the ground up, supporting DirectX 9/11, OpenGL, GNM, Metal, and Vulkan GAPI's. We have a powerful need for top-notch, low-level and high-level graphics work. You Will: - Help investigate and implement rendering techniques to make ROBLOX graphics more immersive and expressive - Learn about our community and work with technical artists to understand the present and future needs of our creators - Help improve the performance and stability of our game engine - Work with other engineering and art teams - Take ownership of a project throughout its full lifecycle You Have: - Knowledge of C++ and shading languages - Knowledge of 3D math and computer graphics related algorithms - Knowledge of one or more GPU APIs (OpenGL, DirectX and similar) - The ability to reason about code performance and memory consumption - 3+ years experience in real-time rendering - Interest in creating creative rendering techniques - Passion about the state-of-the-art in rendering research - Mobile or console development experience 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.
Senior Software Engineer, Service Mesh
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. Who We Are: Roblox is reimagining the way people come together to connect, create, and express themselves. To support our massive scale, we are powered by thousands of microservices. The Application Networking team connects and secures these services, building ingress gateways, managing the service mesh, and enabling seamless communication across Roblox’s hybrid on-prem and cloud infrastructure. We are executing on Cloud Bursting, a strategic initiative to enable Roblox’s core services to transparently burst from on-prem data centers to the cloud, allowing us to handle historical peak concurrent players and survive regional failures. You will join our Service Mesh team to build the networking fabric that makes this possible. You will: - Design and build the service mesh infrastructure that enables communication across Roblox’s hybrid Kubernetes and Nomad environments, supporting billions of daily requests. - Drive the integration of service mesh with Kubernetes, ensuring reliable sidecar injection, mTLS, traffic policies, and observability for production workloads. - Build the networking foundation for Cloud Bursting, enabling Roblox’s top services to transparently burst from on-prem data centers to the cloud, with service discovery, traffic management, and locality-aware routing across environments. - Partner with internal application teams to understand their connectivity pain points, ensuring the service mesh provides a frictionless 'paved road' for thousands of developers - Collaborate with the Gateway and CNI teams to deliver a unified, multi-cluster service fabric that abstracts cluster and regional boundaries from application developers. - Serve as a primary escalation point for complex service mesh issues, troubleshooting across Envoy sidecars, Istio control plane, and the underlying network stack. - Act as a senior voice on the team, mentoring junior engineers and promoting best practices in testing, deployment, and reliability engineering. You Are: - A professional with 3+ years of experience in distributed systems, with strong expertise in service mesh technologies (Istio, Envoy, Consul, or Linkerd). You understand the tradeoffs of sidecar-based architectures at scale. - Deeply knowledgeable of service mesh concepts: traffic management, service discovery, mTLS, observability, and routing policies. - Experienced running Kubernetes in production and familiar with the K8s networking model. - Comfortable working with Envoy proxy internals, xDS APIs, and control plane architectures. - Excellent at designing large-scale distributed systems that span multiple clusters, regions, and runtime environments. - Fluent in Go, C/C++, or Rust. - Experienced with on-call rotations and approach infrastructure with a “reliability-first” mindset. 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 $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.
Senior Product Policy Manager, Regional Policy (Korea)
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. We are hiring a Senior Product Policy Manager with expertise in regional compliance and localized policy contextualization for Korea. You will join a growing team that works across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, LatAm, Oceania, India and Asia-Pacific, and is responsible for aligning Roblox's product with global and regional norms by adapting our policies to evolving international and regional regulations and expectations. A member of the Product Policy team, you will have a global impact on our policy and safety strategy. You will collaborate internally with our product, engineering, business, legal, public policy, marketing, communications, and operations teams to help drive the business forward on a foundation of safety & civility. You will: - Collaborate with our Legal and Public Policy teams to articulate Roblox's Safety vision, policies and standards to regulators globally - Adapt Roblox’s global policies to regional markets and work with our Moderation Operations team to ensure they are effectively enforced - Analyze the landscape across industry and regulatory activity to proactively anticipate and address risks to Roblox and our users - Work directly with our product and operations teams to guide the development and use of enforcement systems and safety tools for compliance with Roblox policies and local laws - Work closely with the Product Policy Manager for Global Age Ratings to ensure compliant game ratings across various regions - This role requires participation in an on call rotation occasionally You have: - 6+ years of experience in online Trust & Safety and/or Product Policy - Master’s degree or equivalent experience - Background in content policy development for global platforms, with a focus on regional policy - Strong written and verbal communication skills; Able to distill complex issues into their core components, analyze possible solutions, and propose viable policy paths forward - Strong product / technical understanding as a foundation for creative problem solving - Experience working directly with senior company leaders and presenting to executives - Fluent language skills in English and Korean (Required) - Knowledge of Korean regulations - Experience working with the Game Rating and Administration Committee (GRAC) in Korea and the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) - Experience working on matters of international policy with global regulators and articulating complex policy issues 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.
Senior Product Manager, Creator Services
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. About the Role: With millions of creators worldwide, Roblox is creating the future of play. Our Creator Services team has a vision of a cloud platform that helps connect creators to services that enable unbounded creation. These foundational services power millions of creative Roblox experiences for storage, memory, communications, teleportation and more. Stepping into the Senior Product Manager role in the Creator organization, you will drive the vision for the service platform that amasses an ecosystem of first-party and third-party options, joining the dots between the powerful infrastructure and products we are building as a company. You’ll lead the strategy and creation of a roadmap for a range of foundational services to help drive our goal of creation of anything, anywhere, by anyone. You’ll work with talented engineers, designers, analysts and cross-functional groups to bring this vision to life. How far can this go? We need you to help figure that out, so come join us! You will: - Solve Hard, Fun Problems - Help Roblox achieve a vision of a cloud platform delivering foundational services for co-experience creation from storage , communications , telemetry and future service use cases. - Lead a strategy and roadmap for Roblox’s Open Cloud API that enables developers and 3rd parties to extend Roblox in new and interesting ways using our foundational services, including leveraging this API to enable AI agentic building. - Building out a Roblox Cloud that both internal product teams and community creators can rely on to make next generation games and immersive experiences. - Taking the initiative to be transparent with creators about our service quality SLAs, building confidence in their durability. - Identifying the right levels of abstraction to truly hit developer needs - often a raw infrastructure product alone is less valuable than with an accompanying higher level API - Practice High-Craft of Product Management: - Gain understanding of user needs and industry trends through research, practical experience and deep engagement with top creators on Robox - Write detailed product specifications that can be referred by team members for design and implementation. - Run the development of projects from ideation, planning, to launch by working with engineering partners, UX designers, marketing. - Help align vision, roadmap, and needs across executives, engineers, designers, and product team members. - Establish the Indicators for your products and improve the metrics through both incremental and revolutionary improvements. - You will report to the Senior Director of Product, Creator Content & Services and grow your career with a rocket ship company You have: - 3+ years of product management experience in developer or multi-sided platforms, emphasizing cloud platform infrastructure, compute and scale with exposure to IaaS, PaaS and/or SaaS models. - A degree in a highly technical field like computer science, software engineering, or similar experience. - Product experience shipping, updating and maintaining cloud platform products. - Experience in cloud-driven game development facing platforms and ecosystems, with a passion for intuitive and helpful developer tools and APIs. - A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field. - Exposure to cloud platform business models, experience understanding cost-side implications of product design, and revenue generation models (e.g. freemium monetization models). You are: - Technical Background: A Bachelor’s in Computer Science or Engineering is highly preferred, as they must engage deeply with engineering partners on technical system design and rate-limiting logic. - "API-First": Someone who has not just managed a backend, but has built the Open Cloud or public-facing API ecosystems that allow third parties to extend a platform. - Distributed Systems Expertise: A PM who understands the trade-offs of low-latency state management, memory optimization, and global data consistency—critical for 3D immersive environments. - Data-Literate: Beyond basic SQL, they should be able to define SLAs (Service Level Agreements) and "Indicators" that build developer trust in a cloud’s durability. - Technical background - we are looking for someone who can engage with XFN partners in eng across other teams, as well as creators. Passion for Games: The perfect candidate will understand games as an enthusiast at least, and be able to empathize with how the tech above can enable game creation. LI-FO1 LI-Onsite 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 $229,010 - $280,540 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.
Senior Software Engineer - Matchmaking
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 with the Matchmaking team, you'll have the opportunity to build and own end-to-end mission-critical services within the Roblox ecosystem. You'll impact Roblox's matchmaking decisions by helping to select the best game server possible for every play request is a o(n²) problem. The system supports several millions of concurrent players. Additionally, the game orchestration system handles games spread across data centers distributed all over the world, which are growing to support Roblox' terrific growth. The Matchmaking team's mission is to provide the best player experience by choosing the best game possible and handle game orchestration by ensuring performance across Roblox worldwide data centers. You Will: - Work on experimentation, data-driven projects and partner with data teammates to achieve the best player experience possible. You'll also work on the Matchmaking algorithm system to improve the quality of the matchmaking decision. - Help create the next generation of the Matchmaking system, built to support up to 1B monthly active users. You Have: - Experience architecting, designing, and developing a wide-array of software products. - Experience building available distributed systems, and are familiar with NoSQL/NewSQL systems. - Knowledge of REST, API design patterns, and scalable containerized systems and microservices. - Knowledge of systems engineering is a plus. - A Computer-Science graduate or MS graduate. - 4+ years of experience. 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 $242,100 - $293,800 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.
Technical Developer Connections Manager
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 Technical Developer Connections Manager on the Developer Connections team, you’ll play a critical role in supporting and scaling Roblox’s creator ecosystem. You’ll act as a trusted technical partner to high-impact creators across strategic genres (RPG, FPS, Sports) , supporting their growth, technical execution, and long-term success on the platform. You’ll support priority escalations and collaborate closely with product and engineering teams during platform incidents, while also designing internal tools and automation to improve operational efficiency and support quality. With deep expertise in Roblox Studio, performance optimization, and live-operations troubleshooting, you’ll help creators build stable, high-performing experiences while strengthening long-term relationships across the platform. You will: - Serve as a technical point of contact for creators, providing hands-on support, guidance, and best practices. - Diagnose and resolve performance, stability, and scalability issues in live games and experiences. - Own and manage high-priority creator escalations, including participation in an on-call rotation covering weekends and holidays (with flexible scheduling and compensatory time off). Partner with product and engineering teams to coordinate real-time responses to platform incidents and creator-impacting issues. - Act as a communication bridge between creators and internal teams, ensuring clarity, transparency, and timely updates. - Build internal tools and workflow automations (e.g., using Python) to improve response times, data visibility, and team efficiency. You have: - 5+ years of experience in game development or interactive experience development. - A bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience. - Hands-on experience building on Roblox and/or comparable creator platforms. - Deep understanding of the Roblox platform, Roblox Studio, and the creator ecosystem. - Strong expertise in performance optimization, debugging, and profiling for live games or experiences. - Proficiency in Lua, including scripting for tooling, automation, or diagnostics; familiarity with Python, C#, and .NET is a plus. - Experience with Roblox Studio workflows, tools, and production pipelines. - The ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly. - A creator-first mindset, demonstrating empathy, patience, and professionalism in high-pressure situations. - A proactive, self-directed approach, with strong ownership over work and personal workflow management. 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 hourly rate could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Please note that not all benefits on this page are applicable to this hourly position. Hourly Pay Range $66.90 - $76.59 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.
Senior Software Engineer (Lua) - Avatar Identity
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. What You’ll Do: As a Senior Software Engineer on our Avatar Identity engineering team , you will build experiences on Roblox to facilitate the building and customization of player avatars. The avatar is core to every player’s experience on Roblox and you’ll have a front-row seat in building a new way to customize that’ll be used by the millions of players that customize their avatar every day. You Will: - Core responsibility: develop new user-facing experiences on Roblox that allow players to customize their avatars in new and exciting ways - As needed: add new features to the Roblox app (Luau/React) and build upon the game APIs used by third-party developers to customize player avatars (C++) - Be an active participant in the direction and development of the team’s roadmap & strategy - Collaborate closely with other engineers and cross-functional partners (product, design, art) in the Avatar and Marketplace teams You Have: - A track record of quality game(s) on the Roblox platform (very strong plus) - Roblox / Luau development experience (strong plus). Alternately, experience in other game engineers such as Godot / Unity / Unreal / etc. is a plus - 3+ years of professional software development experience - Experience working with cross-functional partners, including Producers & 3D Artists - C++ experience (a plus but not required) - Excellent problem-solving and communication skills 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 $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.
Senior Software Engineer, Frontend
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. What You’ll Do: In this Senior Frontend Engineering role, you will be a key contributor in shaping the future of Roblox’s application surfaces. You will develop the architecture and technical direction of our frontend stack for consumer-facing surfaces, working across teams and technology platforms to ensure our solutions are universal and scalable. This role would require defining how all our frontend pieces fit together, how data flows through the client, and how we can build features faster and more reliably. You will have the opportunity to work with modern frameworks and also dive into our custom Luau-based tech, bridging the best ideas from the web ecosystem into Roblox’s unique environment. If you are excited by the idea of creating the foundation on which dozens of engineers will build new features – and doing it in a way that delights our end-users with speed and stability – then this role will be perfect for you. Join us and help build the frontend platform that underpins the metaverse! Together, we’ll enable incredible new experiences for our users and a productive, joyful development experience for our engineers. You Have: - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. - 8+ years of software development experience, including substantial experience building user-facing frontend applications. Proven track record in implementing or architecting complex frontend systems for large-scale applications (experience with large-scale or high-traffic applications is a plus). - Deep expertise in modern mobile/web/frontend technologies – including proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript/TypeScript or mobile equivalents – and hands-on experience with frameworks such as React. Comfortable with component-based architecture and state management patterns (Redux/Flux or similar) for building maintainable UIs. - Strong programming skills in one or more scripting languages relevant to frontend and tooling such as TypeScript, Swift or Kotlin, or the ability to quickly learn them, is highly desirable. - Solid understanding of software design principles and architectural patterns as they apply to frontend development. Able to design clean APIs and module boundaries, and experienced in creating maintainable and testable code bases with proper unit/integration testing practices. - Demonstrated ability to optimize frontend performance and diagnose issues. Knowledge of performance debugging, profiling, and benchmarking techniques on the client side. Passion for ensuring fast, fluid user experiences on all devices. - Excellent communication skills and a team-oriented mindset. Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, gather requirements, and drive consensus on technical solutions. Comfortable sharing ideas, documenting designs, and collaboratively solving problems in a large engineering organization. - Experience developing applications or libraries across multiple platforms (web, mobile, desktop). Familiarity with building applications that serve users on Web, iOS, Android, Windows, etc. is desirable for ensuring a seamless cross-platform experience. - Familiarity with C++ or other low-level languages is a nice to have but not mandatory. You will: - Design and implement robust, extensible systems powering Roblox’s core surfaces (Home, Avatar, Search, etc.) to serve millions of users efficiently. - Create reusable frontend abstractions using React paradigms and modern tech to enable fast, consistent UI development across teams and devices. - Maintain and evolve Roblox’s internal React-inspired Luau UI libraries, promoting modular design, state management patterns, and performance. - Define architecture standards to ensure frontend code is scalable, testable, and aligned with proven patterns like Flux, MVC, and MVVM. - Partner with engineering, product, and design teams to integrate shared solutions and deliver cohesive, high-quality user experiences. - Address cross-surface issues like memory, responsiveness, and load times to ensure a reliable, fast UI at scale. - Provide architectural leadership, review designs/code, and mentor engineers in best practices and effective use of platform tools. 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 $242,100 - $312,970 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.
Senior QA Engineer, Game Engine
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 QA Engineer for Interactivity, you will be the quality leader for the core systems that define how users interact with our 3D experiences. You will be responsible for defining the validation strategy, architecting automation, and ensuring system stability across all platforms, from mobile and console to VR and web. This role involves deep collaboration with engineering to influence product design and provides leadership to our global QA teams. You will report to the Senior Manager of Quality Assurance. You will: - Define, own, and sign off on the complete validation strategy for real-time interaction systems, input handling, and complex UI, setting key metrics and determining release readiness. - Architect and implement high-level automation solutions for mission-critical end-to-end interaction flows, driving the evolution of the testing framework for scalability and reliability. - Lead and direct cross-platform validation efforts (mobile, console, desktop, VR, Web, TV), independently resolving systemic defects. - Consult with engineering on design implications and technical solutions, applying your insights to influence the development of interactivity features and shared automation tools (Arrow, Apollo, UTP). - Lead offshore members, scaling test strategy, scripting practices, and automation quality across the organization while establishing the standards for all test documentation. You have: - 5+ years of specialized expertise in QA for game engines or real-time interaction systems. - Advanced knowledge of real-time interaction systems, complex input handling, and strategic automation architecture. - Experience with other scripting languages such as Lua (or Luau) and Python for sophisticated systems automation. Proficiency in C++ is a plus. - Experience managing CI/CD test pipelines. - A proven ability to work cross-functionally and influence outcomes in fast-paced engineering environments. - Expertise in tools QA, simulation testing for creator platforms, or specialized knowledge of platform-specific input handling. You are: - A data-driven professional with strong cross-platform expertise and technical collaboration skills. - A continuous learner, passionate about experimenting with new automation and interactivity testing techniques to drive quality innovation. 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 $156,890 - $187,780 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.
Talent Sourcing Partner, Engineering (Short Term)
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. At Roblox, we are growing and looking for a Product Management and Design Sourcer to help build, scale, and influence our recruiting landscape. We are a fun and collaborative team focused on recruiting talent. This person is a strong communicator, collaborator, and leads by example. Successful Builders embrace change and we encourage bringing in fresh ideas and a culture of feedback. You will directly impact the growth of the company and support our scaling efforts. You Will: - Partner closely with Roblox recruiters and business leaders to deeply understand each team’s goals and talent needs, then identify, attract, and engage top candidates who will drive our mission forward - Proactively source and engage top talent through Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOut, Behance, Dribbble, and other platforms - Influence and improve processes to help the team work smarter, faster, and at scale - Share talent market insights with hiring managers to guide decisions on leveling, compensation, and candidate profiles - Mentor and coach hiring managers and interviewers, raising the bar on calibration, evaluation, and selection practices - Champion a best-in-class candidate experience that reflects our values and culture at every stage of the process - Ensure operational excellence with clean pipelines, accurate data, and strong ATS hygiene - Use data and insights to diagnose bottlenecks, measure impact, and tell compelling stories to stakeholders - Act as a strategic thought partner to hiring leaders, bringing sourcing analytics and competitive intelligence to shape organizational growth You Have: - 4+ years of top of funnel sourcing experience (Product Management & Design) - Demonstrated experience sourcing for Product Managers across seniority levels, domains, and functions - Demonstrated experience sourcing for Product Designers, Brand Designers, 3D Artists, Producers, Design Engineers and/or Creatives across seniority levels, domains, and functions - Proven ability to spot high quality, high craft portfolios - Proven ability to manage high-volume pipelines while delivering quality results - Demonstrated success in identifying and engaging senior and niche technical talent in competitive markets - A strong track record of influencing stakeholders and solving complex sourcing challenges with creativity and innovation - Experience utilizing an Applicant Tracking System to maintain candidate pipelines - A data-driven approach with the ability to analyze metrics, surface insights, and inform strategy - A startup mentality and open to thinking outside of the box 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 $159,260 - $200,630 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.
Senior Software Engineer - Avatar Personalization
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 the Avatar Personalization team, you will use the Roblox game engine to build features that push the boundaries of our avatar technology, and build creative systems that make Roblox avatars simple and delightful to use. You will tackle the biggest projects, provide technical leadership, and coordinate with teams across Roblox to build systems used by tens of millions of monthly players and developers. You are passionate about building outstanding systems and APIs in the Roblox game engine, enhancing avatar features, and enriching customization systems for Roblox players and developers. You'll work with Avatar technologies such as animation, clothing, hair, and shading. Experience in game or film development is especially translatable into this team and role. You Will: - Implement groundbreaking features in Roblox game engine to build the best avatar system in the world - Build APIs for Roblox developers enabling in-experience creation of Roblox Avatars from scratchEnhance avatar fidelity and uniqueness on Roblox - Use the Roblox game engine to build excellent vertical applications for multiple platforms (mobile, tablet, PC, and console) - Refactor and improve our existing codebaseImprove system reliability, performance, and test coverage - Work with numerous teams to help build the world's best user generated gaming platform - Implement systems in a combination of C++ and Lua You Have: - 5+ years of professional experience working on a consumer-facing game engine and/or game application - Proficiency with C++, 3D math, data structures, algorithms, and networking - Experience working on character building and customization systems, editors, and content creation tools - Experience building online console or mobile game titles - Experience with game or film character systems such as animation, rigid-body or cloth/hair physics, or shading 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 $242,100 - $293,800 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.
Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure
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. Are you a seasoned engineer with a passion for reliability and scalability? We’re looking for exceptional Software Engineers to join the Reliability team at Roblox. In this pivotal role, you will drive the evolution of our systems, ensuring they meet the highest standards of performance, reliability, and efficiency. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to build robust infrastructure that supports our growth. If you have a track record of solving complex technical challenges, we want to hear from you. Join us in shaping the future of our platform and delivering unparalleled value to our users. At Roblox, our vision is to achieve 1 billion daily active users. We believe this engineer will be instrumental in driving us towards that ambitious goal. You Will: - Architect and ship high-availability software and libraries that programmatically enforce fault-tolerance and system resilience. - Engineer scalable frameworks and automated tooling for performance benchmarking, chaos engineering, and self-healing infrastructure. - Build and maintain automation to streamline repetitive tasks and improve system reliability. - Develop and implement tooling to proactively identify and understand infrastructure issues and platform degradations. You Have: - Experience: you have a BS degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science or related engineering field with at least 3-4 years of experience in full-cycle software development, with a proven track record of applying engineering rigor to Site Reliability. - Systems Engineering Mindset: You treat operations as a software problem; you have a disciplined approach to writing clean, maintainable code and a history of driving internal adoption for the tools you build. - Passion for systems: You have experience and good habits around building software and tools and getting them adopted. Your system's focus informs a view of code needing to be deeply reliable. - Prior experience developing, deploying and maintaining LLM-based agents or RAG systems in production is a plus. You Are: - A Partner: You know that the best tools integrate broadly with the tooling ecosystem. You approach partners and processes with curiosity and seek to understand a problem deeply before you start coding. - A Coder: you have experience writing common programming languages ( Go, C#, Java…). - Self-organized: you're excited about getting in front of complex problems, organizing your work by any means possible; overcome emergent issues and contributing to long-running projects as a part of the team. - Problem Solver: you ask the right questions to solve issues within your expertise and you use data to test your theories.Planner - You have experience in large project lifecycles. You have experienced working in sprints, breaking down complex tasks into milestones, and reporting status to keep project scheduling accurate. 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 $226,250 - $293,800 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.
Senior Product Manager, Creator Safety Experience
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 Senior Product Manager, Creator Safety Experience , you will own how creators experience safety on Roblox end-to-end. That means the products, tools, interfaces and systems that help creators understand our policies, respond to enforcement actions, remediate issues and get back to building. You will shape a product vision for a domain that sits at the intersection of platform safety, creator empowerment and policy and you will drive it to outcomes across a highly cross-functional organization. This role is for someone who is relentlessly creator-obsessed, operates with urgency, understands Safety from the perspective of creators, users and parents and has the judgment to navigate ambiguity without waiting for permission. You will work closely with product and engineering teams across Safety and Creator, as well as Policy, Legal, Developer Relations and Operations. You will often be the person connecting dots across organizations and driving alignment where it doesn't yet exist. You will: - Own the end-to-end product experience for creator safety spanning transparency, enforcement communication, appeals, remediation and reform. - Define and relentlessly refine a product vision for how creators understand and interact with Roblox's safety systems. - Turn ambiguous, high-stakes problems into tangible, shippable solutions. You don't wait for perfect information. - Build tools that give creators real agency to monitor their experiences, manage harmful behavior and understand exactly where they stand with the platform. - Improve how moderation actions, policy enforcement decisions and restrictions are communicated to creators. You drive clarity and transparency as core safety product outcomes. - Own creator-facing tooling for rights management and IP enforcement. - Enable creators to remediate issues and return to productive building as quickly as possible. - Advocate for creators internally. Identify systemic friction, prioritize relentlessly and drive alignment across Safety, Creator, Policy, Operations, Developer Relations, Legal etc. - Ensure creator-facing safety experiences remain compliant with Roblox's Community Standards and applicable regional requirements. You have: - 5+ years of product management experience, ideally in consumer, creator, developer platforms and/or Trust & Safety. - Deep customer obsession and empathy for their needs and pain. You have experience talking directly to your customers and building robust feedback loops. - Ability to write compelling, logical narratives for various audiences. Your written and verbal communications make the ‘why’ obvious to all stakeholders. You have a strong dislike for fluff. - Sound judgment to pair qualitative creator feedback with quantitative signals. You know what to measure, how to instrument and how to use data to disconfirm your own assumptions. - Proven ability to drive alignment and outcomes across matrixed organizations. You have partnered with Engineering, Operations, Policy, Legal, Marketing and cross-functional stakeholders to ship complex, company-wide initiatives. - High degree of comfort working with APIs, SDKs or other similar developer-facing tooling. You can build products that sophisticated developers actually want to use. - A strong bias for action. You define the next smallest shippable thing, drive it to done and repeat. You do not mistake planning for progress. - (Strong plus) Familiarity with Trust & Safety domain, appeals systems, policy enforcement transparency or creator/developer-facing safety tooling. 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 $229,010 - $280,540 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.
Senior Software Engineer, Game Engine Systems
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 the Engine DataModel team, you will own and innovate on the foundational components that form the backbone of the Roblox platform. In the Roblox Engine, the DataModel is a tree-like structure that is analogous to a scenegraph in other 3D engines. This role will report to the engineering manager and will be based out of our HQ in San Mateo, CA in a hybrid model 3 days a week (Tuesdays to Thursdays). Our team owns: - The core structures and systems are used to build the DataModel and interact with it. - The C++ reflection bindings that form the Engine’s Luau API surface and let creators interact with the DataModel. We’ve built custom codegen tooling to generate the C++ for these reflection bindings and other related structures. - DataModel serialization … and much more! You will: - Develop engine code that performs well for all user-created games on the Roblox platform. - Build the core systems and data structures used in the Roblox engine, working with other teams to find universal solutions. - Take ownership of projects throughout their full lifecycles. - Execute code that performs well on all the devices Roblox supports—from desktop clients to mobile phone clients to console clients. You have: - Experience developing outstanding systems-level C++ programming. - Have a curiosity about the actual work the CPU does when you use smart pointers, templates, virtual functions, and blocks of memory, both structured and raw. - Have experience working on game engines or other similarly performance-sensitive products. - Responsibility for building and maintaining systems that work optimally. - Curiosity to learn and stay up-to-date on technology developments. 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 $242,100 - $293,800 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.
Senior Software Engineer - Engine Infrastructure
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 Systems team, you will have an immediate impact on the building blocks of Roblox itself. The software you build is a very large application that empowers our global community of 2M+ developers to push the boundaries of interactive gaming. Your work will touch every part of the engine, from threading and memory management to physics and scripting. If you enjoy working on C++ software and have a passion for working on high-performance real-time applications alongside experienced and passionate engineers, you will be right at home on our growing Game Engine team. You will: - Develop engine code in C++ for sub-systems critical to the Roblox game engine - Work on sub-systems that handle data syncing between server and client, game-aware data streaming, and harmonizing resource usage to ensure gameplay works on various devices with varying CPU and memory capabilities - Work on every application Roblox develops, from mobile phone clients to cloud-based servers You have: - 4+ years of experience and you've worked on deep and challenging problems in large and complex C++ codebases. - System-level pointers, templates, and raw blocks of memory are tools to write code, not your enemies - Experience working in the guts of game engine or passion for learning it - Built systems that work and keep on working reliably - A curiosity to want to learn and stay up-to-date on technology development - Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field 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 $195,780 - $242,100 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.
Senior Software Engineer - Game Engine Network (C++)
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 Engine Networking Team pulls the players together by ensuring the communication of the game state to all. As a Principal Network Transport Engineer you will help the players experience the game as a nearly synchronous world. Just as the nerves in our bodies coordinate our actions, the network system coordinates all the computers involved into a smooth experience for the players. You will work in all areas of the game platform in your quest for real-time communication of every part of Roblox. You Have: - Worked on a powerful user-space network stack, solving problems related to scale, performance, latency, and throughput in client/server environments. - Worked on a very large multithreaded distributed system that connects millions of users worldwide. - Worked on all the devices Roblox supports - from desktop clients to mobile phone clients to console clients - Worked on a game engine and understand how a game engine works You Are: - A software engineer with 4+ years of experience with Game networking coming from a Game Engine/Studio - A deep understanding of Network Stack with a passion for working with open source - Strong systems-level C++ programming experience and fascinated by the actual work the CPU does when you use smart pointers, templates, virtual functions, and blocks of memory, both structured and raw - Experience with Linux networking and have a good understanding of common network protocols - Keen to each millisecond of the network exchanges: You know where the time goes and how to reduce the waste - Understanding of what happens on the operating systems level when certain code is completed 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 $195,780 - $242,100 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.
Systems Software Engineer - Game Engine Network (C++)
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 Engine Networking Team pulls the players together by ensuring the communication of the game state to all. As a Principal Network Transport Engineer you will help the players experience the game as a nearly synchronous world. Just as the nerves in our bodies coordinate our actions, the network system coordinates all the computers involved into a smooth experience for the players. You will work in all areas of the game platform in your quest for real-time communication of every part of Roblox. You Have: - Worked on a powerful user-space network stack, solving problems related to scale, performance, latency, and throughput in client/server environments. - Worked on a very large multithreaded distributed system that connects millions of users worldwide. - Worked on all the devices Roblox supports - from desktop clients to mobile phone clients to console clients - Worked on a game engine and understand how a game engine works You Are: - A software engineer with 4+ years of experience with Game networking coming from a Game Engine/Studio - A deep understanding of Network Stack with a passion for working with open source - Strong systems-level C++ programming experience and fascinated by the actual work the CPU does when you use smart pointers, templates, virtual functions, and blocks of memory, both structured and raw - Experience with Linux networking and have a good understanding of common network protocols - Keen to each millisecond of the network exchanges: You know where the time goes and how to reduce the waste - Understanding of what happens on the operating systems level when certain code is completed 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 $195,780 - $242,100 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.
Senior Software Engineer, Developer Monetization (C++)
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. Developer Monetization is the economic engine of Roblox and owns the systems responsible for over 70% of platform revenue. We build the in-engine and Studio infrastructure that lets millions of creators monetize their work and that powers how hundreds of millions of users discover and purchase virtual goods across the world's largest virtual economy. We're building the next generation of that economy, including systems that understand how players interact with the world in real time, boosting our capability to optimize the economy to better support our community. Think: perception-aware commerce running natively inside the Roblox engine on mobile devices worldwide. The client is where the economy comes to life and where the hardest problems live. As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you'll own the C++ layer that bridges our monetization platform to the Roblox engine and Studio. You'll build the in-game APIs, purchase flows, and real-time pricing surfaces that creators and players interact with every session. You'll partner closely with product, design, data science, and backend teams on projects with high economic impact, CEO-level visibility, and real scale. You Will: - Build and evolve the in-engine C++ APIs at the core of Roblox's virtual economy, serving 20M+ QPS, gracefully degrading under pressure, and keeping the experience seamless for hundreds of millions of players. - Design systems that capture how players discover and interact with virtual goods inside an experience, turning spatial and behavioral signals into structured data that powers intelligent merchandising and economy optimization. - Push the boundaries of mobile performance. Profiling, optimizing, and finding creative ways to deliver rich monetization experiences within tight memory and frame budgets. - Lead projects from scoping through experimentation to launch, making key technical decisions, running A/B tests, and iterating based on what you learn. - Partner with product, design, data science, and ML engineers to shape the future of in-experience commerce on Roblox. You Have: - 3+ years of experience building production systems with a strong foundation in C++. - Experience shipping client-side or mobile software (iOS, Android, or game engines). - Strong intuition for user experience. You notice when something feels off on a player's device. - Experience with A/B testing, experimentation, or using data to inform product decisions. - Comfort leading projects across ambiguity: scoping work, coordinating with cross-functional partners, and driving to delivery. - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field (or equivalent experience). 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 $195,780 - $242,100 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.
Senior QA Engineer, AVC
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 Quality Engineer , you will be embedded within the AVC team and will be part of the centralized Engine QA organization within Engineering Productivity at Roblox. This team is responsible for ensuring the quality, performance, and reliability of Roblox’s real-time Audio, Video, and Communication systems that power voice chat, video streaming, spatial audio, and live interactions across platforms. You’ll partner closely with engineers, release teams, and automation framework owners to validate low-latency, real-time systems that operate at massive global scale. Your work directly impacts how millions of players and creators communicate in real time ensuring clarity, synchronization, performance, and stability across desktop, mobile, console, and VR. You Will: - Define and execute test plans for AVC features (voice, video, audio pipelines, streaming). - Validate performance, latency, and stability across platforms and network conditions. - Integrate AVC automated tests into CI/CD systems. - Partner with engineers to analyze performance telemetry and debug complex issues. - Lead release readiness testing for AVC components. - Participate in on-call rotation for emergency validation. You Have: - 8+ years of QA experience in real-time systems, media, networking, or game engines. - Strong understanding of audio/video streaming concepts and performance constraints. - Experience testing voice or video chat systems both hardware and software (eg. video conference) - Hands-on experience with automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines. - Excellent debugging skills for timing, performance, and cross-platform issues. - Proficiency in Python, C++, or Lua. - Strong cross-functional collaboration skills. 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 $187,780 - $223,660 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.
Creator Growth Operations Manager, Monetization
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 the Creator Growth Operations Manager , you’ll drive the enablement, onboarding, and optimization strategies for developers integrating monetization, growth, and advertising solutions, such as rewarded video (RV) ads into their free-to-play (F2P) gaming experiences. You’ll combine business development, operations, and busines performance expertise across game monetization and developer enablement to help creators build sustainable, player-first economies. You’ll work closely with engineering, product, and business teams to enhance the developer experience, improve game performance, and simplify integration workflows. Your impact will extend across the ecosystem as developers adopt new monetization products that boost player engagement and unlock new revenue opportunities. You will: - Empower Developers: Guiding creators on best practices for implementing monetization, growth, and ad solutions that enhance player experience and drive sustainable creator earnings. - Accelerate Adoption by designing programs that encourage adoption of new monetization and ad products through education, workshops, and incentives. - Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to identify developer needs, influence product roadmaps, and ensure seamless implementation of monetization and growth tools. - Monitor key performance metrics to identify and model opportunities that improve monetization performance, optimize integrations, and elevate developer satisfaction. - Advocate for Developers: Representing developer perspectives to shape the future of monetization, growth, and advertising on Roblox. - Lead enablement and onboarding for developers integrating monetization, growth, and ad products, ensuring a scalable and frictionless experience. - Drive product experimentation for new features to evaluate the true impact on scaled games - Provide strategic guidance on incorporating monetization and ad products, such as rewarded video into gameplay loops to balance engagement and revenue. - Develop, document, and share best practices that help developers create meaningful, player-first monetization experiences. You Have: - 7+ years of experience in games product management or product operations - Deep understanding of free to play with hands-on experience balancing In-App Purchases (IAP) with In-App Advertising (IAA), ensuring they complement rather than cannibalize each other. - Proven success collaborating across engineering, product, and business functions to deliver scalable developer solutions. - A deep understanding of experimentation with experience running experiments at scale in a production environment - Deep creator empathy: understand the needs of the creator and systematically convey needs to internal teams to evolve newly launched features. - Scalable Education: Transition from "white-glove" onboarding to "one-to-many" solutions Nice to Have: Technical Knowledge - Familiarity with game monetization and engagement mechanics - Understanding of ad tech ecosystems, including APIs, SDKs, and integration workflows. - Working knowledge of game engines - Experience with performance monitoring tools and dashboards to optimize monetization performance. 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 $202,340 - $240,980 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.
Strategic Financial Analyst, Revenue
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. Roblox is seeking a Strategic Financial Analyst, Revenue to own core forecasting models and margin analytics across COGS, tax, and pricing. Reporting to the Finance Manager, Revenue, this role will be responsible for the integrity and evolution of our platform bookings and cost forecasting frameworks. You will operate at the intersection of Finance, Tax, Payments, Accounting, and Data to ensure that pricing, tax exposure, and platform cost dynamics are accurately modeled, reported, and embedded in planning processes. This role provides deep exposure to the full revenue funnel — including Bookings, COGS, and Developer Expense — and contributes to executive and board-level reporting. The ideal candidate combines analytical rigor with strong operational ownership, ensuring financial accuracy while translating complex margin dynamics into clear, actionable insight. You Will: - Own the COGS forecast, budget, and platform bookings model, analyzing trends, delivering insights, and strategically partnering with key business teams who drive our provider mix and COGS rate assumptions. - Drive pricing initiatives and recommendations, developing comprehensive knowledge of COGS and Tax impact to pricing through partnerships with Product (Payments) and Tax teams. - Lead key month-end deliverables for Accounting and Tax, including regional bookings views, tax files, and associated validation checks. - Support business decision-making and recommendations through ad hoc analysis related to new payment providers or platforms, rate negotiations, tax or pricing decisions, etc. - Prepare executive- and board-ready materials that clearly articulate bookings performance, margin drivers, and forward outlook - Enhance forecasting accuracy and scalability through process automation and improved data modeling - Support monthly, quarterly, and annual planning cycles with a strong focus on integrity, clarity, and strategic insight Y ou Have: - At least 2+ years of experience in investment banking, consulting, or business operations or equivalent work experience - Bachelor's degree in engineering, economics or other quantitative fields (math, science, finance/accounting) - Advanced proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets and financial modeling, with a willingness to learn other tools & software languages. Experience with Python, SQL, Tableau or other analytical software is a strong plus, but not required - Strong analytical skills and ability to distill robust datasets into concise and meaningful insights and trends - Exposure to emerging, high-growth companies in the technology or internet sectors - An eye for efficiency and gravitate towards automating manual processes - Intense curiosity about understanding key drivers of a complex business with eagerness and motivation to make an impact on the business 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 $134,540 - $167,910 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.
Senior Software Engineer, User Safety
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. WHY SAFETY? At Roblox, we strive to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and the Safety organization's mission is to become the leader in civil immersive online communities. We systematically and proactively detect, remove, and prevent problematic content and behavior, and we make Roblox accounts secure and free from compromise. We also keep the platform compliant for changing regulations and growth markets. We cover a broad area of the tech spectrum, including machine learning, experimentation, automation, highly scalable distributed backend systems, detection workflows, and AI-powered text filters. Aligned and partnering with product teams, we use this tool belt to discover new opportunities, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build safety products, and measure the impact on our community of users and developers. In doing so, we keep Roblox safe, civil, and inclusive, and we foster positive relationships between people around the world. WHY USER SAFETY? At Roblox, we believe that Safety and Civility are fundamental to fostering a vibrant, creative community. As a Senior Software Engineer on User Safety, you will be responsible for designing and building large scale systems for abuse reporting, a critical part of keeping Roblox safe. You will work on services with substantial scaling needs in the path of many critical user journeys, and you will feel a true sense of ownership and responsibility in thoughtfully and fairly protecting our users, while carefully balancing freedom and civility. You Will: - Build large-scale services for intaking, enriching, routing, and decisioning abuse reports. - Work closely with UX design, research, data science, and product managers to substantially improve the efficacy, scale, and trustworthiness of abuse reporting. - Help evolve our moderation infrastructure to meet new safety and compliance requirements. - Leverage ML to tackle difficult problems at scale. - Work with a tightly-knit, high-performing, diverse, and energetic cross-functional product engineering team with a strong sense of camaraderie. You Have: - 6+ Experience with scalable infrastructure and distributed systems - 6+ Experience in Golang/C++/C#/Java/etc. - Experience with modern microservice architecture. - Capability and willingness in being predominantly a product engineer but occasionally serve a platform role with internal partners. - Interest with Safety systems. - A growth mindset. - Preferred - Experience with the Trust & Safety domain - Preferred - Experience with AI/ML at scale You Are: - An owner: Taking responsibility for not just your own work, but the work of your teammates, and ensuring that our users are safe on Roblox. - A learner: Constantly seeking knowledge to grow yourself and your impact. - Independent: Requiring little guidance and are generally able to resolve yourself. - Compassionate: To the needs and motivations of our users and creators - not just those who are exposed to violative content, but also those who are responsible for the abuse. - Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger 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.
System Administrator - ServiceNow
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. Roblox is seeking a Systems Administrator with a focus on ServiceNow to join the Infrastructure Asset Management of our Infrastructure Foundation team in the San Mateo, CA headquarters. You will be responsible for designing and executing the integration roadmap between ServiceNow and the internal ecosystem (like Jira, NetDB, NetSuite etc.). In tandem, ensure security, compliance to SOX and audits for Roblox. Experience working with Data Center Operations, Accounting, Procurement, Networking, Software Engineering and 3rd party Vendor teams and understanding the importance of tracking physical assets will be a huge plus. Role is based in our San Mateo, CA HQ and reports to Lead Asset Manager, Data Center You Will: - Design, build, and architect ServiceNow configurations and customizations, alongside daily administration responsibilities including user and role management, ACL configuration, and system maintenance. - Oversee system health, managing platform upgrades, patches, cloning, and scheduled jobs. - Develop and maintain integrations using REST, SOAP, scripted APIs, IntegrationHub spokes, and MID Server. - Troubleshoot integration failures, monitor data flows, and maintain stable, secure connectivity. - Leads cross-functional workstreams with Finance and Engineering to ensure SOX Compliance through automation. - Ensure the platform meets organizational security standards and governance policies. - Partner with internal teams in testing processes and release management. You have: - Having 3–5+ years of ServiceNow administration/development experience. - Strong understanding of core ServiceNow applications with focus on the Hardware Asset Management module (others a plus). - Hands-on scripting experience and client/server scripting. - Experience building REST/SOAP integrations and API-based data exchanges. - Experience with upgrade cycles and instance management. - Preferred ServiceNow System Administrator (CSA) certification, ITIL 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 $159,070 - $192,980 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.
Senior Product Designer, Experience UX
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 Product Designer for Experience UX, you will be the primary architect for how users navigate and interact with the Roblox platform. This is a high-impact role requiring a blend of systematic thinking and meticulous craft. You will own the information architecture that bridges the gap between the Roblox app and the immersive experiences within it. You will lead design the ecosystem of UI and controls within Roblox experiences, where our users spend the majority of their time on the platform. This requires solving complex problems, such as translating 2D interfaces into 3D environments, while ensuring flows remain adaptive across mobile, desktop, console, and XR. You aren't just building components; you are defining the universal lexicon for a global community of creators and players. You will: - Drive UX strategy: Collaborate with different teams across the org and navigate stakeholder needs and expectations. Partner with leadership to align the design vision with long-term company goals. - Architect systems: Design cross-org, system-level navigation and information architecture that scales across millions of experiences. - Deliver in-experience controls: Define the visual language and interaction patterns for in-experience controls that serve both our players and creators, ensuring a seamless transition between the platform and experiences. - Influence & negotiate: Confidently present strategic design reasoning to leadership, navigating stakeholder environments with diplomacy and authority. - Bridge 2D and 3D: Define and lead the UX strategy for illustrating spatial selections in 3D, translating innovation into production-ready solutions. - Iterate with data and UXR: Work closely with PMs and data scientists to land A/B tests, using data-driven and user research insights to refine UX strategies and improve user retention You have: - 6+ years of experience in product design, managing scalable systems, design patterns, and information architecture. - Strong craft across visual design, interaction design, and design systems. - Information architecture experience: A proven track record of organizing complex content into intuitive, navigable frameworks. - Cross-platform experience: Knowledge of designing for mobile, desktop, console, and XR environments. - Proficiency in Figma and relevant visual tools. Advanced prototyping using Origami, After Effects, 3D tools are a plus. - Exceptional communication: The ability to tell a compelling story, move stakeholders to action, and document systems with precision. 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 $255,720 - $304,560 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.
Sr Recruiting Ops Specialist (Short-Term)
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 core mission of the Recruiting Operations (RecOps) team at Roblox is to strategically optimize the entire recruitment lifecycle, ensuring its efficiency, consistency, and effectiveness. We build and maintain the crucial operational infrastructure—including process, technology, data governance, and compliance—which empowers Talent Acquisition (TA) to consistently find, interview, and achieve the best possible hiring outcomes for the organization. In this role, you will act as a bridge between strategy and execution. You will partner cross-functionally with Legal, HRIS, and People Analytics to drive operational rigor, optimize our technology stack, and ensure our processes are not only compliant but that our solutions are scalable and seamless user experience. This role calls for an autonomous, systemic thinker who can navigate ambiguity to drive complex, multi-quarter initiatives, designing sustainable solutions that anticipate our needs for current and future needs. You Will: - Own High-Complexity Workflows & Processes: Serve as the primary owner in designing, standardizing and optimizing our recruitment process. You will build durable mechanisms that eliminate failure points and ensure rigorous adoption without constant manual intervention. - Operational Agility: Provide ad hoc support and project oversight of our TA tooling initiatives - Lead with Data & Insights: You will leverage data to ensure accuracy, moving beyond basic reporting to generate actionable insights that steer operational strategy. - Champion Compliance & Governance: You will ensure all activities adhere to global governance, GDPR, and EEO standards. - Manage Cross-Functional Change: You will lead change management for process shifts by anticipating resistance, tailoring communications to diverse audiences, and utilizing feedback loops to iterate on solutions. You Have: - 5+ years of experience leading and executing complex recruiting operations initiatives including defining project scope, managing conflicting priorities, and delivering results with minimal supervision. - Deep expertise with core recruiting or HRIS technologies (e.g., Greenhouse, Workday, Gem, GoodTime) and the technical aptitude to understand system integrations, configurations, compatibility, and everyday use. - Proven operational rigor and strategic planning aptitude, capable of translating vision into action, managing ambiguity, and delivering complex programs with clear prioritization and resource planning. - Expertise in pulling, interpreting, and communicating data from recruiting tools to generate actionable insights and solve complex problems with minimal oversight. - Familiarity with TA Policy, Governance, and Compliance , with a focus on monitoring and addressing the evolving state of global laws and regulations. - A track record of successfully partnering and influencing cross-functional partners, stakeholders, and varying levels of leadership to achieve desired outcomes. You Are: - An independent, results-driven operator who works autonomously, taking full ownership of your execution, deliverables, and outcomes across all high-priority initiatives. - A strong relationship builder who enjoys communicating and collaborating effectively across a wide range of functional teams and audiences. - An exceptional mentor, who plays an active role in guiding and upleveling junior members of the team. - Someone who is highly adaptable , able to balance and drive multiple complex programs simultaneously. - A continuous learner who is passionate about deepening knowledge of Talent Acquisition best practices and new developments within the RecOps industry. - Innovative and bold , consistently using experience and knowledge to take calculated risks and approach operational challenges in new and innovative ways 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 hourly rate could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Please note that not all benefits shown on this page are applicable to this temporary position. Monthly Salary Range $16,719 - $20,478 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.
Senior Software Engineer, Client Systems (C++)
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 Senior Software Engineer on the Consumer Frontend team, you will leverage the Roblox tech stack and tools to build groundbreaking experiences that push the boundaries of what is possible on the platform. Your efforts will not only help create amazing content, but more importantly, will help us highlight issues, improve and extend our animation tech, tools and pipeline for all developers. These efforts will enable our game developers to create engaging and delightful experiences for our millions of players. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about Client side development. You need to be proficient in C++ or building client side system libraries on mobile/Desktop platforms. Prior experience building C++ based applications, libraries/frameworks or SDK is highly desirable. You will: - Be the primary C++ expert in the team and drive frontend C++ strategy for extending our interface layer. - Work with stakeholders across Engineering, Product, and Design to expand frontend ecosystems and drive technical enhancements in engineering space. - Implement innovative solutions to feature requests and collaborate with the Roblox Surface owners on new initiatives. - Have fun working with our internal team members and community developers to improve the overall state of Lua App on Roblox You have: - 4+ years of experience with significant knowledge of system or mobile programming. - Proficiency in C++: Strong C++ programming skills with an ability to write high quality, performant code; experience with Lua is a plus - Passion about building frameworks and libraries: You are driven to build a strong platform with world class design patterns and cutting edge system architecture. - Performance focus : You embrace software performance considerations, with an ability to implement performant solutions for platforms including mobile. - Personally Motivated: Self-sufficient, self-organized and able to take ownership of a project throughout its full lifecycle - A Team player mentality: Ability to work closely with and inspire the rest of your team while displaying excellent interpersonal and communication skills 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 $195,780 - $242,100 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.
Senior Risk Data Analyst
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 Risk Data Analyst in our Payments organization, you will play a critical role in defending Roblox from various types of payment fraud across the platform. This includes purchase fraud, developer earnings fraud, and virtual economy-related risk and abuse. Roblox is a high-growth environment, and you will be essential in developing, implementing, and optimizing risk and anti-fraud solutions for our diverse global payment channels. Your work will be critical in safeguarding revenue, protecting our community, and ensuring the financial integrity of our platform, which handles millions of transactions daily. You will work in a data-driven environment, proactively analyzing trends and patterns to detect and prevent complex financial fraudulent activity. You Will: - Monitor transaction activity and implement detection strategies to prevent fraud. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product, and data science, to develop and improve fraud prevention measures. - Implement, monitor, and tune detection strategies and rules in production to prevent and mitigate payment fraud, minimizing false positives and maximizing loss prevention. - Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams—including Engineering, Product, Data Science, and Finance—to define, scope, and implement new fraud prevention tools and systemic improvements. - Conduct deep-dive investigations into emerging risk vectors, documenting findings and preparing regular, actionable reports on financial risk trends, loss rates, and mitigation effectiveness for leadership. - Analyze and plot data to identify and investigate potential fraud and abuse patterns. - Contribute to the continuous improvement of our risk management framework, policies, and procedures, ensuring ongoing compliance and operational efficiency across the payments ecosystem. - Define technical and data requirements to enhance risk-monitoring infrastructure, alerting, and operational tooling used by the wider risk and payments teams. You Have: - 5+ years of professional experience in an analytical role, with a focus on fraud prevention and risk analysis in a high-volume transactional environment (e.g. e-commerce, fintech, or gaming). - Proficiency with data analysis tools and techniques, including advanced SQL and Python for data exploration, data visualization, and statistical analysis. - Direct experience analyzing and addressing different types of payment risk, such as card/fiat fraud, account takeover (ATO), chargeback analysis, and/or developer payout/earning fraud. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and identify trends. - Familiarity with risk prevention concepts, such as those in anti-fraud, anti-abuse, or trust and safety. - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. - Degree in a quantitative field such as Data Science, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or a related field. 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 $134,540 - $167,910 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.
Senior Software Engineer - Marketplace Foundation
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. What You’ll Do: As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Avatar Marketplace team, you will be building an international marketplace for millions of virtual items that users acquire to customize their avatars and identities on the Roblox platform. You will design, implement, and operate the frameworks and services you and the team build that help control the supply and demand of the Roblox economy. The team is responsible for building systems that will help content creators become more successful sellers. With millions of users, we are looking for an experienced engineer who is passionate about designing and building scalable systems for both sides of the marketplace. The Marketplace Foundation team's focus is to provide reliable and scalable solutions for critical systems supporting both Avatar Marketplace creators and users. We aim to invent new and evolve existing core concepts to support new and future use cases in a holistic manner, such as Bundles, Limiteds, and Price Optimization. We help the creators to improve their earning while scaling Roblox's economy. The team is also responsible for ensuring 10x scalability headroom on critical Marketplace systems, improving the efficiency, enhancing fault tolerance and decreasing the number and time to resolution of production customer support tickets related to these systems. You will: - Design and architect scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems, including microservices, message queuing systems, distributed databases, and cloud-based solutions. - Implement high-quality and dependable code with thorough unit and integration tests. - Develop backend systems to ensure the seamless and efficient operation of our services. - Troubleshoot and resolve intricate technical issues within distributed systems. - Optimize system performance, minimize latency, and maximize throughput. - Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including product managers, research scientists, and other engineering teams. - Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering continuous learning and professional development. - Actively participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and technical design sessions. - Establish and advocate for best practices throughout the software development lifecycle. You Have: - 6+ years of professional experience in software development, with a significant focus on distributed systems. - A deep understanding of core distributed systems concepts, including the CAP theorem, consistency models, concurrency control, fault tolerance, and consensus algorithms (Paxos, Raft, PBFT). - Proficiency in one or more systems programming languages such as C#, Go, Rust, Java, C++, or Python. - Strong practical experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm). - Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka, and distributed databases like Cassandra and MongoDB. - Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, and the ELK stack. - Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving complex challenges. - Experience defining technical vision and providing technical leadership. - A willingness to embrace new technologies and a passion for continuous learning. 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.
Senior Software Engineer - Avatar Default Abilities
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 Avatar Team is at the heart of the Roblox experience. We build and evolve the systems that define how every player shows up in the metaverse — from how avatars look and move, to how they express themselves and interact with the world. Our work sits at the intersection of engine technology, animation, safety, and creator tools, and it has to scale to hundreds of millions of players across millions of experiences. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Avatar Default Abilities team, you will own the technical design and implementation of a growing library of high-quality default abilities for the platform avatar and ability manager. You will take abilities from concept to production, define patterns and abstractions that other teams can build on, and ensure our default abilities feel great, perform well, and work reliably across the full diversity of Roblox experiences and devices. You Will: - Develop avatar abilities that push the quality bar far beyond what was previously thought possible on the platform, combining state-of-the-art animation techniques with the practical constraints of a massively scaled real-time system. - Design, implement, and ship new default abilities end-to-end - from early prototypes and technical exploration through productionization, rollout, and ongoing iteration. - Build robust, reusable systems on top of the platform avatar and ability manager so that abilities are composable, data-driven, and reliable across millions of experiences and billions of avatar configurations. - Collaborate extensively with world-class designers, animators, engine engineers, and product leadership to translate creative ability concepts into technically sound, performant implementations usable by every player. - Define and uphold engineering best practices for ability development (architecture, documentation, testing, automation, and observability) to keep the abilities library maintainable as it grows. - Profile, optimize, and harden abilities for performance and stability across a wide range of devices, from low-end mobile hardware to high-end PCs and consoles. - Partner with Studio, engine, and creator-facing teams to ensure abilities are easy for developers to integrate, configure, and extend within their own experiences. - Use qualitative feedback and quantitative signals (e.g., engagement, performance metrics, error reports) to debug complex runtime behaviors and continuously improve the feel, responsiveness, and reliability of abilities. - Mentor other engineers, sharing deep expertise in avatar animation, character systems, and large-scale engine development, and help shape the long-term technical roadmap for default abilities on Roblox. You Have: - A strong technical foundation, with a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience in the gaming, animation, or software industry. - Advanced expertise in avatar or character animation systems, with hands-on experience building and shipping state-of-the-art runtime animation pipelines. - Proven software engineering excellence in C++ and a high-level scripting language such as Lua or Python, including experience designing, implementing, and maintaining complex, performance-sensitive systems. - Prior experience working with CG interactive characters — rigging, movement, behaviors and actions — and integrating them into modern game engines, animation systems, and/or large-scale real-time platforms. You Are: - A collaborative team member who thrives in cross-functional environments, partnering closely with artists, designers, and platform owners while mentoring other engineers. - Mission-driven and excited about building a safe, high-quality, and civil metaverse where expressive avatars are core to how people connect. - A proven problem solver who is comfortable operating in ambiguous spaces, driving 0-to-1 solutions for complex technical problems, and iterating quickly based on data and feedback. 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.
Senior Software Engineer, Engine Systems
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 the Engine DataModel team, you will own and innovate on the foundational components that form the backbone of the Roblox platform. In the Roblox Engine, the DataModel is a tree-like structure that is analogous to a scenegraph in other 3D engines. This role will report to the engineering manager and will be based out of our HQ in San Mateo, CA in a hybrid model 3 days a week (Tuesdays to Thursdays). Our team owns: - The core structures and systems are used to build the DataModel and interact with it. - The C++ reflection bindings that form the Engine’s Luau API surface and let creators interact with the DataModel. We’ve built custom codegen tooling to generate the C++ for these reflection bindings and other related structures. - DataModel serialization … and much more! You will: - Develop engine code that performs well for all user-created games on the Roblox platform. - Build the core systems and data structures used in the Roblox engine, working with other teams to find universal solutions. - Take ownership of projects throughout their full lifecycles. - Execute code that performs well on all the devices Roblox supports—from desktop clients to mobile phone clients to console clients. You have: - Experience developing outstanding systems-level C++ programming. - Have experience working on game engine internals - Responsibility for building and maintaining systems that work optimally. - Curiosity to learn and stay up-to-date on technology developments. - Have a curiosity about the actual work the CPU does when you use smart pointers, templates, virtual functions, and blocks of memory, both structured and raw. 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 $242,100 - $293,800 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.
Senior Software Engineer, Core Services
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 Core Services team manages the core infrastructure and API stack and builds high throughput microservices that powers https://www.roblox.com . These services need to be fast, reliable and highly scalable as they have a huge impact on the day-to-day experience of every Roblox user. In addition, the team owns shared libraries, infrastructure microservices, and the web infrastructure used by all other Roblox full-stack feature teams. We ship with testable and configurable features that allow for rapid experimentation, data collection, and optimize for performance and user engagement. From serving basic user information to populating content into in-experience. Core Services is integral to the Roblox experience. As a Senior engineer within the team, you will own and drive the development and management of core infrastructure, API stack, and microservices. These components are essential for supporting a range of services and platforms within Roblox, including our studio environment. Additionally, you will contribute to the development of tooling and frameworks for full-stack teams. You will get the chance to take ownership of high RPS (requests per second) services, contribute to the re-architecture of systems to accommodate our company's growth, and collaborate with a diverse set of teams including Infra and the product teams within Roblox, leading initiatives, and making a significant impact across the company. Here are a few quick highlights of how we power Roblox: - Microservices - we manage 50+ microservices, the most of any Roblox full-stack engineering team. These services are crucial to run Roblox. They sit right at the heart of the connection between product and infrastructure. - API Scale - we run services that hit 500K - 3M RPS, the highest load of any Roblox full-stack engineering team. Scalability and reliability of these services is important to keep the product alive. - Thumbnails - our system generates and delivers 5 - 6 million thumbnails per second. Perfect for viewing all your avatar clothing options! - Roblox website - managing the production infra behind running the website while re-architecting it is a real interesting architectural challenge. If you're interested in changing the airplane's engine while it's flying, you'll like this challenge. You will: - Report into the Core Services Organization. - Build, maintain, and scale systems to support our goal of 1 billion active users - Design backend features for https://www.roblox.co m and mobile apps on iOS, Android, and Amazon platforms. - Collaboratively build new microservices using Docker, .NET Core, and container orchestration. - Build and establish core infrastructure accessible to all Roblox teams. - Enforce high code quality standards, architectural designs, and long-term approaches as a gatekeeper You have: - Experience in C#, Java, Go or any other object-oriented programming language - 6+ Years of Experience building web applications in frameworks such as ASP.NET, SpringMVC, Express, Rails, or Flask. - Experience designing high traffic REST APIs, using Containers and microservices - Experience building large scale distributed systems with focus on scalability, reliability, and availability - Experience in debugging, mitigating, and root causing problems in the production environment in a timely and systematic manner. - Experience leading cross team greenfield projects. - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience. 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.
[SkillBridge] Information Security Fellowship
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. This training program is designed to provide a transitioning service member with a comprehensive, hands-on experience in a civilian Security Operations Center. The program will leverage the fellow’s existing military cybersecurity knowledge and translate it to commercial tools, processes, and a corporate environment. The goal is for the fellow to become a qualified Tier 2 SOC Analyst or Information Security Engineer, capable of in-depth incident investigation, threat hunting, and contributing to overall security posture of the organization and the workforce. You Will: - Support Security Incidents, ensuring that any serious threats and impacts are understood, mitigated and learnt from with speed and professionalism - Conduct Investigations, digging into the context of situations and determining if a threat exists and taking action to prevent it - Collaborate cross-functionally with information security, legal, human resources, executive teams, external (developers & customers) and the security community - Work collaboratively with other teams in security and engineering to support (and sometimes lead) high profile events or responses to vulnerabilities - Produce Security response procedures including, runbooks, IRPs, workflows and automations, as well as internal briefings - Threat Hunt for anomalous activity in our signals, determine if these outliers are threats or expected behavior You Are: - In alignment with the SkillBridge program, candidates must meet the following criteria: - Have served at least 180 continuous days of active duty - Are within 180 days of separation or retirement from military service - Will receive an honorable discharge - Have completed the Transition Assistance Program (TAP) - Additionally, written permission from the unit commander is needed before your start date. - A detailed thinker who enjoys exploring and collecting the details and considering how they impact what you’re doing - An eager problem solver who is drawn to issues rather than avoidant of it - A team player who enjoys winning as a team member and holds yourself to a high standard to enable the group - Compelled by our mission to protect Roblox’s users from harm and protect the safe space we’ve created During SkillBridge participation, Service members continue to receive military compensation and remain covered by their military benefits. You can find more information here . You may redact age, date of birth, and dates of attendance/graduation from your resume if you prefer. 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.
Senior Frontend/Fullstack engineer, Social Graph
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 the Profile team, you will build systems and applications across the stack and enable players, creators, influencers, and brands to create a compelling identity on Roblox. Your work will power the Roblox ecosystem, helping people recognize and connect with friends & interests on Roblox, express themselves, and discover & engage with the best of Roblox through their connections. You will own critical features used by millions of users daily, such as profiles, names, online presence, coplay tools, and social proof, as well as develop new zero-to-one features. You will drive company-level objectives for user engagement. If you are an experienced developer who loves to write code and ship user-facing features, you’ll be right at home with our product-focused team. You’ll be a fullstack engineer with a focus on frontend. You Will: - Ship features and work across the stack with an end-to-end understanding of our features. This role will be frontend leaning. - Collaborate with other engineering, product, and design teams to define and build platform features to enable users to express their identities - Drive individual projects from end to end, ensuring they are well-planned, executed efficiently, run experiments, and deliver meaningful impact. You Have: - 5+ years of experience building full-stack systems, including backend, APIs, and frontend applications. - Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience. - Familiar with A/B testing and experience on a Product team (Bonus) You Are: - Proactive: You operate with a sense of urgency, initiating conversations and workflow that pushes team projects and people forward - Scrappy: You are willing to dive into any tech stack to solve problems, and can easily adapt to any situation when the need arises and come up with the right solution. - A product owner: You champion for changes that align with the needs of our users 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.
Tech Lead Manager (TLM) - Ads Experience
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. With Roblox’s daily active users growing at a record pace, we are building the next generation of advertising in an immersive metaverse. Our team sits at the core of the Roblox Ads ecosystem, serving billions of impressions while providing the critical infrastructure that connects global brands with our massive community of creators. We are seeking a Tech Lead Manager (TLM) to drive the technical strategy and lead the execution of the Ads Experience team. This team is responsible for the full spectrum of our monetization experience, including Advertiser Experience (Roblox Ads Manager), Brand Experience (Brand Ads & Integrations), and Publisher Experience (Creator Monetization & Commerce). This is a foundational leadership challenge beyond standard ad-tech. As a TLM, you will be responsible for both the technical vision of our high-scale monetization backbone and the growth and management of a high-performing engineering team. You will pioneer AI integration and balance a three-sided marketplace economy in real-time while fostering a culture of technical excellence. You Will - Drive Technical Strategy: Act as the technical authority for the Ads Experience team. Translate ambitious business goals into multi-year technical roadmaps, ensuring our systems (Ads Manager, Brand Ads, and Creator tools) are scalable and future-proof. - Oversee System Architecture: Provide technical oversight for the end-to-end architecture of the Roblox Ads Manager, Brand Ads, and Creator Monetization. You will ensure these systems effectively handle complex forecasting, serving, and delivery while maintaining robust campaign management and real-time reporting at scale. - Innovate with AI: Spearhead the strategic application of AI across the ecosystem, including Gen AI for multi-modal creatives and intelligent assistants to empower our advertisers. - Lead & Manage: Build and lead a team of high-caliber software engineers. You will be responsible for hiring, performance management, career development, and fostering an inclusive, high-output team culture. - Execute & Deliver: Own the full software development lifecycle. Balance the need for rapid product iteration with long-term technical health, ensuring the team delivers high-quality features on schedule. - Partner Cross-Functionally: Collaborate deeply with Product Manager, Design, and Data Science to define the product vision. You will bridge the gap between business requirements and technical implementation. You Have - 8+ years of software development experience, with 2+ years of experience in people management and a proven track record as a Technical Lead. - Deep understanding of the Ad Tech stack, including Campaign Management, Reporting, Creative, Ad Serving, Measurement, and Ad Delivery. - Strong background in distributed systems and high-availability backend services (Go, C#, or similar) and an understanding of modern frontend architectures (React/TypeScript). - A passion for mentoring engineers and a proven ability to manage performance, navigate complex organizational challenges, and build a cohesive team. - Experience driving engineering best practices, including code reviews, testing strategies, and incident management for high-scale systems. - The ability to think like a product owner while maintaining the technical rigor of a Principal Engineer. - BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. 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 $295,250 - $345,040 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.
Senior Software Engineer, Core Services
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 Core Services team manages the core infrastructure and API stack and builds high throughput microservices that powers Roblox. These services need to be fast, reliable and highly scalable as they have a huge impact on the day-to-day experience of every Roblox user. In addition, the team owns shared libraries, infrastructure microservices, and the web infrastructure used by all other Roblox full-stack feature teams. We ship with testable and configurable features that allow for rapid experimentation, data collection, and optimize for performance and user engagement. From serving basic user information to populating content into in-experience. Core Services is integral to the Roblox experience. As a Senior Software Engineer within the team, you will own and drive the development and management of core infrastructure, API stack, and microservices. These components are essential for supporting a range of services and platforms within Roblox, including our studio environment. Additionally, you will contribute to the development of tooling and frameworks for full-stack teams. You will get the chance to take ownership of high RPS (requests per second) services, contribute to the re-architecture of systems to accommodate our company's growth, and collaborate with a diverse set of teams including Infra and the product teams within Roblox, leading initiatives, and making a significant impact across the company. Here are a few quick highlights of how we power Roblox: Microservices - we manage 50+ microservices, the most of any Roblox full-stack engineering team. These services are crucial to run Roblox. They sit right at the heart of the connection between product and infrastructure. Our services peak at over 10M RPS, the highest load of any Roblox full-stack engineering team. Scalability and reliability of these services is important to keep the product alive. Orchestration at Planetary Scale – Core Services is building Roblox’s next-generation, in-house multi-cluster orchestration platform that spans global regions and manages hundreds of thousands of containers. This system operates across DCs, cloud regions, and edge sites. If you've ever wanted to design the control plane at globe scale where every millisecond matters, and where rollouts, autoscaling, and failover need to work flawlessly across continents, this is that challenge. Content Delivery - Be part of the team responsible for serving millions of assets per second that makes the on-demand experiences of millions of players possible as Roblox continues to break world player count records. Authentication, encryption, compression, global delivery with low millisecond response times serving over 10’s of millions of deliveries per second at peak is what the platform demands. Join us while we prepare for the next magnitude of growth. You will: - Report into the Core Services Organization. - Build, maintain, and scale systems to support our goal of 1 billion active users. - Design backend features for https://www.roblox.com and mobile apps on iOS, Android, and Amazon platforms. - Collaboratively build new microservices using Docker, .NET Core, Rust, Go and container orchestration. - Build and establish core infrastructure accessible to all Roblox teams. - Enforce high code quality standards, architectural designs, and long-term approaches as a gatekeeper. You have: - Experience in Rust, Go, C#, Java or any other object-oriented programming/systems level language - 6+ Years of Experience building web applications in frameworks such as ASP.NET, SpringMVC, Express, Rails, or Flask. - Experience designing high traffic REST APIs, using Containers and microservices. - Experience building large scale distributed systems with focus on scalability, reliability, and availability. - Experience in debugging, mitigating, and root causing problems in the production environment in a timely and systematic manner. - Experience leading cross team greenfield projects. - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience. 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 $242,100 - $293,800 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.
Senior Software Engineer, Core UI
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 the Core UI team, you'll take the Roblox App experience to the next level - making it intuitive, reliable, and a joy to use. Our team sits at the intersection of platform engineering and product innovations. You'll work on systems and surfaces used by every Roblox user and creator in every game session. If you care deeply about how software feels - not just how it works - this is the role for you. You Will: - Design, build, and own end-to-end development of user-facing features and systems across mobile, desktop, VR, and consoles. - Develop robust, extensible systems powering Roblox's core surfaces (Home, Avatar, Search, and more) used by hundreds of millions of users and creators. - Create scalable solutions for building high-quality, intuitive, and reliable user interfaces that elevate the overall product experience. - Partner with engineering, product, and design teams to deliver cohesive, delightful user experience. You Have: - 4+ years of software development experience building large-scale, user-facing applications. - Strong expertise in modern frontend technologies, including frameworks like React or similar, component-based architecture, and state management patterns. - Experience delivering high-quality user experiences with attention to usability, reliability, and maintainability. - Solid understanding of software design principles and frontend architecture, with the ability to design clean APIs and well-structured systems. - Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally and drive alignment on technical solutions. Nice to Have: - Experience with Lua or React Native in a production environment. - Experience with UI performance profiling and optimization. - Experience developing applications across multiple platforms (mobile, desktop, VR, consoles). - Familiarity with C++ for understanding Roblox engine integration. 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 $195,780 - $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.
Technical Director - Data Science (Discovery)
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. WHY DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS? The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency and acumen of making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product verticals, we use this extensive tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products and measure impact on our community of players and developers. WHY DISCOVERY EXPERIENCES? We're seeking senior data scientists with expertise in machine learning to join our Discovery Experience team. As IC leaders (individual contributors with a large span of influence), you'll drive strategic decisions for user growth and product innovation, leveraging all data science toolkits (analytics, experimentation, forecasting, and ML solutions) to improve end-to-end consumer journeys on Roblox. The roles will primarily focus on Discovery Experiences. Discovery surfaces (i.e. home, search, matchmaking, notifications) are critical to fostering engagement and long-term relationships with our platform. The complex network of our two-sided marketplace, combined with the ever-evolving metaverse, presents exciting challenges. This role will report directly into the Senior Director of Data Science (Consumer) and will be based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA (hybrid, onsite days Tues-Thurs). You Will: - Develop foundational solutions to scale the hypothesis generation process across key user engagement touchpoints. - Contribute directly to the development of ML solutions that power our discovery canvases alongside our sister engineering teams. - Partner closely with Product and engineering leaders to inform, drive and accelerate innovations in discovery experiences via Insights, frameworks, causal inference solutions and machine learning prototypes. - Leverage advanced causal inference methodologies to measure the effectiveness of various initiatives, ranging from Roblox events to social features susceptible to network effects. - Conduct exploratory analysis to identify and advise XFN partners on opportunities for strategic investments. - Design and implement experiments for new features and communicate results succinctly to non-technical audiences. You Have: - Advanced Degree and/or PhD in Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Applied Math, Economics, or other related quantitative fields - 10+ years of industry experience in data science, economics, analytics, or machine learning engineering - 7+ years of experience using scripting languages (Python, R), and big data query/processing languages and tools such as SQL, Hive, Spark, and Airflow - Knowledge of ML and Deep Learning either via formal training or industry experience - Ability to apply creative first-principles reasoning to solve ambiguous problems - Experience developing large-scale recommendation systems as well as experience with content platforms, specifically user-generated content 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 $373,680 - $430,430 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.
Senior Software Engineer - Engine Reliability
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 Engine Reliability team, you will have an immediate impact on the building blocks of Roblox itself. The software you build is a very large application that empowers our global community of 2M+ developers to push the boundaries of interactive gaming. Your work will touch every part of the engine, from threading and memory management to physics and scripting. If you enjoy working on C++ software alongside experienced and passionate engineers, you will be right at home on our growing game engine team. You Will: - Develop engine code that performs well for all user-created games on the Roblox platform - Improve scripting, memory management, bootstrapping, and other fundamental layers of the Roblox engine - Work on every application Roblox develops, from mobile phone clients to cloud-based servers - Report to the Engineering Manager of the Reliability team You Have: - Experience: you have 5+ years experience and you've worked on deep and challenging problems in complex C++ codebases - Systems-level understanding : pointers, templates, and raw blocks of memory are tools to write code, not your enemies - Platform domain expertise : you can jump with ease between Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, and other platforms - Curiosity: you want to learn, and stay up-to-date on technology developments 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 $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.
Senior Software Engineer, Creator Trust
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. WHY SAFETY? At Roblox, we strive to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and the Safety organization's mission is to become the leader in civil immersive online communities. We systematically and proactively detect, remove, and prevent problematic content and behavior, and we make Roblox accounts secure and free from compromise. We also keep the platform compliant for changing regulations and growth markets. We cover a broad area of the tech spectrum, including machine learning, experimentation, automation, highly scalable distributed backend systems, detection workflows, and AI-powered text filters. Aligned and partnering with product teams, we use this tool belt to discover new opportunities, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build safety products, and measure the impact on our community of users and developers. In doing so, we keep Roblox safe, civil, and inclusive, and we foster positive relationships between people around the world. WHY Creator Trust? The Creator Trust team is elevating creator safety and trust to a first-class product priority. Our mission is to provide a predictable, fair, and transparent safety experience, ensuring creators can build successful experiences and marketplace assets without the friction of opaque systems. Additionally, we empower creators to protect and manage their intellectual property rights across the platform. If you are passionate about empowering creators, protecting intellectual property and solving complex, high-impact platform challenges, Creator Trust is where you can make a definitive mark You Will: - Contribute to the technical direction for creator-facing safety systems - Drive cross-surface, cross-org outcomes by building and evolving creator-facing safety systems. - Work hand-in-hand with ML engineers, directly contributing to the development, productionization, and ongoing enhancement of machine learning models that push state-of-the-art for computer vision and similarity detection. - Take ownership of projects from concept to deployment, ensuring high quality, reliability, and scalability. You Have: - 5+ years building highly available, large-scale distributed backend systems. - 5+ years delivering and maintaining production software for large-scale applications. - Proficient in Go, Java, C#, or similar OOP languages with strong design principles. - Excellent cross-team collaborator with a drive to complete projects. - Curious and proactive in learning new technologies and growing technical skills. - Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering You Are: - An owner: Taking responsibility for not just your own work, but the work of your teammates, and ensuring that our users are safe on Roblox. - A learner: Constantly seeking knowledge to grow yourself and your impact. - Independent: Requiring little guidance and are generally able to resolve yourself. - Compassionate: To the needs and motivations of our users and creators - not just those who are exposed to violative content, but also those who are responsible for the abuse. - Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger. 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 $195,780 - $242,100 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.
Senior Product Designer, ROS
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. At Roblox, the Roblox Operating System (ROS) team builds the intelligent, integrated platforms that power the productivity and collaboration of every Builder across the company. As a Senior Product Designer, you will shape and scale the next generation of our internal tool ecosystem. You won't just be designing dashboards; you will be pioneering intuitive, self-service tools and AI-assisted workflows that enable our teams to seamlessly manage massive data analytics, knowledge discovery, and open platform integrations. You’ll partner deeply with product managers and engineers to understand highly technical needs, translating dense data primitives and complex workflows into elegant, unified experiences from discovery through launch. Your work will empower our internal teams to move with speed and confidence, reducing their cognitive load through intelligent, agentic workflows within our Open Platform and AI enablement initiatives. Crucially, you will bring an uncompromising level of design craft to the enterprise layer - proving that the world's most powerful internal platforms can also be beautifully executed and intuitive. You have a systematic approach to design, a proven ability to simplify the complex, and a passion for defining new AI-driven interaction patterns across our interconnected suite of tools. You thrive in the space where deep technical empathy meets high-fidelity execution. You will: - Transform the Builder Experience: Lead end to end UX for core productivity and collaboration surfaces, reviving critical but under supported initiatives to significantly reduce coordination overhead and friction across day to day workflows. - Unify the internal ecosystem: Evaluate and elevate a fragmented landscape of internal tools, creating tighter and more intuitive connections between work tracking, growth and performance workflows, and knowledge discovery to shape a cohesive platform that teams genuinely enjoy using. - Bridge design and engineering: Collaborate closely with product leaders across multiple domains and with backend engineering partners, navigating complex technical and data constraints while consistently protecting experience quality and design integrity. - Set the gold standard for craft: Own high visibility analytics and leadership facing experiences while scaling a global data visualization component library, turning dense operational signals into clear and actionable insight and demonstrating that internal tools deserve refined, consumer level polish. You have: - 5+ years of product design experience , with a focus on solving complex, systems-level problems in highly technical enterprise environments. - Domain expertise in data analytics, enterprise ecosystems, internal productivity platforms, or developer tooling. You are comfortable diving into complex organizational workflows and data primitives, translating them into unified, self-service experiences. - Experience in AI/LLM design , with a background in defining user interfaces for agentic workflows, Work Intelligence platforms, or intelligent automation. You understand how to design for user trust, proactive insights, and control in an AI-driven ecosystem. - Expert-level command of modern design stacks. You have high fluency in complex Figma environments (libraries, tokens, file architecture) and seamlessly integrate AI-augmented workflows into your practice. You leverage generative tools as a force multiplier to accelerate iteration, amplify productivity, and elevate your final craft. Using this velocity, you define and enforce an uncompromising quality bar for usability, interaction design, and visual polish within the enterprise layer, proving that internal tools deserve consumer-grade care. - A profound care for the final product. You possess an obsessive dedication to craft, sweating the smallest details all the way through to production. You believe that every pixel matters, and you refuse to stop refining until the coded experience feels inevitable, effortless, and beautifully resolved. - Strong cross functional collaborator with experience contributing to large scale, ambiguous initiatives that span multiple teams from early concept through launch. Comfortable partnering closely with technical stakeholders, product managers, and engineering counterparts to shape aligned decisions and deliver cohesive end to end experiences across complex internal platforms. You are: - Strategic and systematic: You look beyond the immediate feature request and see the broader ecosystem, capable of building scalable design systems that anticipate future platform needs. - Resilient in ambiguity: You are comfortable pioneering new ground (like Agentic UX) where established patterns don't exist yet, turning complex, undefined problems into clear, actionable design strategies. - A collaborative influencer: You naturally build trust with highly technical partners, gracefully negotiating constraints while keeping the user experience at the absolute center of the conversation. 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 $214,710 - $255,720 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.
Software Engineer, User Co-Experience
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 Backend Engineer on the Co-Experience team , you will work on high-visibility initiatives that define the future of age-appropriate communication. Using modern technologies, you will build and maintain a social ecosystem that ensures safe, civil, and meaningful interactions across diverse age groups. We are kind, highly collaborative, and draw on a mix of startup and large company backgrounds to iterate faster within Roblox. Our primary product is a platform-level Party System . As the heartbeat of social interaction on Roblox, this system enables users to coordinate, form groups, and stay connected as they navigate across servers and immersive experiences. While we have a strong foundation of chat, voice, gameplay mechanics, and creator APIs, we need your expertise to strengthen our backend infrastructure, build out new features, and accelerate our path toward product-market fit. As we scale, your work will directly impact our global community and support the company’s top-line growth. You Have: - An undergraduate/graduate degree in computer science, engineering or a related field. - 2+ years of experience in working on microservice architectures with a proven track record in addressing scalability and reliability challenges. - 1+ years of experience building systems behind consumer-facing APIs that can handle large numbers of concurrent users. - Strong understanding of server-side development and design principles, with proficiency in at least one compiled language such as C#, C++, Java, Golang, or other. - Strong product intuition - you think in terms of user experience, tradeoffs, and measurable outcomes, as well as system design. - A track record of leveraging AI-assisted development tools to maximize engineering velocity, allowing you to rapidly prototype, iterate on complex logic, and move from ideation to production-ready code with high efficiency. You Will: - Collaborate within a multi-functional team that includes product, design, UXR, frontend and backend engineering. - Maintain, improve and scale the Roblox party system to support millions of concurrent users. - Participate in design and develop service infrastructure empowering Roblox creators to unlock new ways to co-experience for their users. - Partner with other engineering teams (infrastructure, matchmaking, chat, voice, trust and safety) to integrate multiple systems in a reusable, performant and safe manner. - Self-organize and take ownership of projects throughout their full lifecycle. - Maintain high quality standards while iterating on features with live production traffic. - Mentor interns. You may redact age, date of birth, and dates of attendance/graduation from your resume if you prefer. 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 $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.
Senior Product Policy Manager, Monetization
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. We are hiring a Senior Product Policy Manager with expertise in creator economy platforms and payment fraud to join our growing Monetization Policy function. You will help us design policies, enforcement guidelines incorporated into financial integrity products, services, and technologies that support our global community of monetizing creators. As a part of the Product Policy team, you will have a global impact on our payment integrity and fraud mitigation strategy. You will collaborate internally with our product, engineering, business, legal, public policy, marketing, finance, and operations teams to help drive the business forward on a foundation of safety & civility. You will report to Roblox’s Monetization Policy lead and sit within our larger Safety Group at Roblox. You have: - 4+ years of experience with online anti-fraud, trust & safety, or product policy space, especially for digital payment and/or creator economy platforms - Subject matter expertise in digital payments, virtual economies, and/or creator monetization platforms. - Strong written and verbal communication skills; Able to distill complex issues into their core components, analyze possible solutions, and propose viable policy paths forward - Strong product / technical understanding as a foundation for anticipating user behaviors and platform risks You Will - Draft and implement policies for managing and mitigating financial fraud, including for incidents raised in customer support claims and regulatory inquiries - Collaborate across all functions of the company to support developments in our ecosystem to drive policy and monetization integrity improvements - Analyze the landscape across industry and regulatory activity to propose risk mitigations for Roblox and our users - Internally evaluate product proposals for fraud risks and propose mitigations that operate at scale - Help build the monetization policy team infrastructure, as an early member of a growing team - Work directly with our product, engineering, and operations teams to guide the development and use of enforcement systems for compliance with Roblox policies. Preferred Qualifications - JD / Master’s degree or equivalent - Experience working directly with senior company leaders - Experience with anti-fraud or financial compliance issues, especially in payment and/or creator economy platforms 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 $202,060 - $247,530 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.
Senior QA Engineer, Safety
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 QA Engineer, you will be the first dedicated QA hire for the Safety Engineering Group, which is responsible for building the infrastructure and policies that make Roblox the safest online community in the world. You will report to the QA Engineering Manager for Universal Apps and collaborate across the Safety organization to own end-to-end test strategies for high-stakes, 24/7 incident response systems and parent-facing safety features. This role is a unique opportunity to shape the quality culture of a company-level mandate from the ground up. You will: - Partner with Engineering and Product to define and maintain comprehensive, risk-based test coverage for Safety features and systems. - Own the end-to-end test strategy for Safety initiatives, including functional, regression, integration, and edge-case validation. - Leverage and expand internal automation frameworks to automate critical user flows and drive API-first validation strategies. - Identify high-impact automation opportunities and incorporate industry best practices to design robust, abuse-resistant test scenarios. - Develop, track, and report on quality metrics (e.g., defect trends, coverage gaps) to proactively surface release risks to stakeholders. - Apply AI/LLM-driven solutions to reduce manual QA toil and improve test maintenance efficiency. You have: - 4+ years of QA experience in highly technical or backend-driven environments, including a strong understanding of test design techniques and risk-based testing. - Strong technical proficiency in API testing (REST, JSON, Postman) and the ability to read and understand code. - Hands-on experience with automation frameworks (UI and/or API) and a deep understanding of automation architecture and maintainability. - A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field. - Strong root cause analysis capabilities with the ability to analyze logs and system behavior to debug complex issues. - Excellent cross-functional communication skills, with a proven ability to articulate risk and quality trade-offs to stakeholders. You are: - Adversarial in your thinking: You naturally think like a "bad actor" to identify abuse-cases, bypass attempts, and edge cases in safety systems. - A strategic operator: You prioritize testing based on risk and impact rather than trying to "test everything". - An independent leader: You are comfortable being the first QA in an organization and have a vision for building a quality culture from scratch. - Data-driven: You use metrics and dashboards to influence engineering decisions and improve overall product health. 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 $187,780 - $223,660 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.
Sr Machine Learning Engineer - Safety Experience
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 Rights Manager team and the Content Suitability team that are part of our Safety Experience are looking to hire a Sr Machine Learning Engineer for their respective teams. The Safety Experience organization builds the tools and systems that give Roblox Users and Creators control over their experience and empower moderators to enforce our community standards. These teams focus on education, intervention, visibility, and action. We focus on: - Monitoring and influencing user behavior (User Safety) - Building efficient and scalable moderation platforms (Foundation) - Providing transparency and education for parents and developers (User Safety) - Giving users agency in managing their own safety (User Safety) - Give IP owners the ability to manage their creations on Roblox (Rights & Guidelines) - Providing users fast and accurate support with the Customer Care Chatbot (Customer Care) You will: - Work on implementation of machine learning solutions for safety-related systems - Help to foster a culture of technical excellence and inclusivity - Break down long-term product requirements into iterative deliverable stages, ensuring continuous improvement - Craft and build large-scale machine learning models with billions of parameters, ensuring production-readiness - Facilitate challenging technical decisions, demonstrating empathy and finding common understanding - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute on ML-based problems You have: - MS or PhD degree + 2+ years of experience in Computer Vision, Deep Learning, or a related field. You have solid fundamentals in Computer Vision and Deep Learning. - Experience with the full ML lifecycle, including training, deployment, and continuous monitoring. - Experience with similarity detection and/or digital watermarking. This includes work on developing and re-training embedding models, including multi-modal models - Strong coding skills with proficiency in one or more programming languages and experience with building large-scale systems You are: - Experienced in the safety, integrity, or content moderation domain . - Familiar with large-scale content understanding problems (e.g., text, image, video classification). - Experienced with cloud-based ML platforms and infrastructure. 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 $195,780 - $242,100 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.
Senior Software Engineer, Avatar Animation
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 Senior Software Engineer on the Avatar Animation team, you will leverage the Roblox game engine and tools to build groundbreaking experiences that push the boundaries of what is possible on the platform. Your efforts will not only help create amazing content, but more importantly, will help us highlight issues, improve and extend our animation tech, tools and pipeline for all developers. These efforts will enable our game developers to create engaging and delightful experiences for our millions of players. We are looking for a software engineer who is passionate about animation and world class user experiences including both usability and performance.. You need to be proficient in C++ and have experience working on animation systems and tools. Prior experience with animation for games / interactive experiences is a huge plus. You Will: - Help develop experiences that push the quality bar beyond what was previously thought possible on the platform - Analyze existing animation tech and tools and determine what is needed to meet a project's objectives - Author documentation on issues, improvements and feature requests for all aspects of character animation tech on Roblox - Work closely with gameplay engineers to implement gameplay interactions using animation tech - Implement innovative solutions to feature requests and collaborate with the Roblox avatar animation team on larger features - Have fun working with our internal content teams and community developers to improve the overall state of animation on Roblox You Have: - 8+ years of experience for with knowledge of character animation, game engines and tools - Proficiency in C++: Strong C++ programming skills with an ability to write high quality, performant code; experience with Lua is a plus - Passion about interactive: You are driven to build amazing experiences with great animations for users on the platform - Foundation oriented mindset : You believe that strong 3D math skills and a well thought out code architecture are important - Performance focus : You embrace software performance considerations, with an ability to implement performant solutions for platforms including mobile - Personally Motivated: Self-sufficient, self-organized and able to take ownership of a project throughout its full lifecycle - A Team player mentality: Ability to work closely with and inspire the rest of your team while displaying excellent interpersonal and communication skills 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 $242,100 - $293,800 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.
Senior QA Engineer (Audio, Video, Communication)
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 Quality Engineer , you will be embedded within the AVC team and will be part of the centralized Engine QA organization within Engineering Productivity at Roblox. This team is responsible for ensuring the quality, performance, and reliability of Roblox’s real-time Audio, Video, and Communication systems that power voice chat, video streaming, spatial audio, and live interactions across platforms. You’ll partner closely with engineers, release teams, and automation framework owners to validate low-latency, real-time systems that operate at massive global scale. Your work directly impacts how millions of players and creators communicate in real time ensuring clarity, synchronization, performance, and stability across desktop, mobile, console, and VR. You Will: - Define and execute test plans for AVC features (voice, video, audio pipelines, streaming). - Validate performance, latency, and stability across platforms and network conditions. - Integrate AVC automated tests into CI/CD systems. - Partner with engineers to analyze performance telemetry and debug complex issues. - Lead release readiness testing for AVC components. - Participate in on-call rotation for emergency validation. You Have: - 8+ years of QA experience in real-time systems, media, networking, or game engines. - Strong understanding of audio/video streaming concepts and performance constraints. - Experience testing voice or video chat systems both hardware and software (eg. video conference) - Hands-on experience with automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines. - Excellent debugging skills for timing, performance, and cross-platform issues. - Proficiency in Python, C++, or Lua. - Strong cross-functional collaboration skills. 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 $187,780 - $223,660 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.
Senior Software Engineer, Ads Experience (C++)
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 Ads User Experience team at Roblox is dedicated to developing cutting-edge software and integrations that facilitate ads on Roblox. Our focus lies in building a first-of-its-kind ads system in our Game Engine. We are developing different ad formats and integrations, starting with video. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with an expertise in C++. This is a high-impact position. Ads at Roblox is at the beginning of our journey, presenting an amazing opportunity to get in at the ground floor and help build a multi-billion dollar business from scratch. We are approaching this challenge with a strong focus on performance and a deep respect for our community — ensuring everyone continues to have an exceptional experience on Roblox. As we move toward enabling cooperative experiences for an infinite number of players in infinitely scalable worlds, we are looking for a Senior Engineer who is both technically exceptional and capable of delivering meaningful, real-world impact. You Will: - Help build a first-of-its-kind ads system within the Roblox Game Engine - Develop new ad formats and integrations, starting with video - Contribute to the design and performance of systems that scale across all Roblox experiences - Play a foundational role in shaping a multi-billion dollar Ads business - Build with an emphasis on user experience, performance, and platform integrity - Work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver thoughtful, community-respecting ad solutions You Have: - Experience: 6+ years working in deep, complex C++ codebases on challenging technical problems - Analytical skills: Strong background with app metrics, analytics, or data science — with the ability to interpret and act on insights - Passion for data: High standards for accuracy and a deep understanding of reliable data systems - Responsibility: Proven ability to build and maintain robust, production-quality systems - Curiosity: Eagerness to learn and stay at the forefront of emerging technologies 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.
Senior Rendering Engineer Manager
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 Roblox Vision 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 platform that empowers our community to bring any experience imaginable 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. Why Join Our Rendering Team? Roblox is seeking an experienced and passionate senior engineering manager to lead a team of talented engineers building cutting edge rendering technology. The rendering team at Roblox is at the heart of how millions of creators and players experience our platform. We are a group that is highly passionate about pushing the boundaries of visuals, scalability and performance. We develop our in-house engine and are in control of our entire technology stack, from the rendering pipeline, the lighting techniques, the material system, the voxel terrain to the VFX system and the server infrastructure. Roblox continues to tackle an unprecedented scalability challenge: to allow User Generated Content to take advantage of high end devices while scaling all the way down to low end mobile devices, across a vast array of platforms and genres. Our technology stack and features must allow Creators to express their amazing vision and we must cater to Creators that range from professional developers to enthusiastic newcomers. Our engine must be capable of producing visuals that look great on high end devices while preserving their intent on low end devices. The Roblox platform has an immense reach. Our work makes it into the hands of hundreds of millions of users all over the world. You will: - Lead and mentor a world-class team of rendering engineers focused on one of the following pillars: - The core rendering pipeline, culling and dispatching systems, graphics APIs backends (Vulkan, Metal, Direct3D, agc, OpenGL) and related systems. - The Lighting, shading, materials, global illumination, and post-processing systems. - Act as a hands-on technical leader, providing guidance on architectural decisions and implementation, from low-level details to high level choice of algorithms, and ensuring the stability and efficiency of our technology stack. - Partner with your team and other engineering leaders to define and execute the vision for the core rendering technology, anticipating future needs and trends, and ensuring our plans are aligned with the company vision. - Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and open communication, where all ideas are valued and explored, and invest in the development of our engineers. - Help build and expand our rendering organization by attracting, interviewing, and retaining top-tier engineering talent. You have: - 15+ years of rendering or graphics engineering experience, with a deep understanding of one or both of the following: - Low-level rendering pipelines, GPU architectures (preferably including mobile), and graphic APIs (e.g., Vulkan, Metal, DirectX) - Modern lighting techniques (e.g., PBR, shadowing, global illumination), material systems, and shading languages. - 5+ years of experience in a technical leadership or engineering management role, with a proven track record of building, mentoring, and leading high-performing engineering teams. - Strong C++ programming skills and a robust problem-solving background, with the ability to provide technical guidance, conduct deep-dive investigations, and contribute to design discussions. - Experience designing, building, and shipping advanced graphical features and/or performance critical systems for game engines or real-time 3D applications. - Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences and collaborate effectively across diverse teams. - A genuine enthusiasm for tackling the unique rendering challenges that Roblox faces. 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 $343,340 - $397,460 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.
Senior Rendering Engineer Manager
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 Roblox Vision 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 platform that empowers our community to bring any experience imaginable 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. Why Join Our Rendering Team? Roblox is seeking an experienced and passionate senior engineering manager to lead a team of talented engineers building cutting edge rendering technology. The rendering team at Roblox is at the heart of how millions of creators and players experience our platform. We are a group that is highly passionate about pushing the boundaries of visuals, scalability and performance. We develop our in-house engine and are in control of our entire technology stack, from the rendering pipeline, the lighting techniques, the material system, the voxel terrain to the VFX system and the server infrastructure. Roblox continues to tackle an unprecedented scalability challenge: to allow User Generated Content to take advantage of high end devices while scaling all the way down to low end mobile devices, across a vast array of platforms and genres. Our technology stack and features must allow Creators to express their amazing vision and we must cater to Creators that range from professional developers to enthusiastic newcomers. Our engine must be capable of producing visuals that look great on high end devices while preserving their intent on low end devices. The Roblox platform has an immense reach. Our work makes it into the hands of hundreds of millions of users all over the world. You will: - Lead and mentor a world-class team of rendering engineers focused on one of the following pillars: - The core rendering pipeline, culling and dispatching systems, graphics APIs backends (Vulkan, Metal, Direct3D, agc, OpenGL) and related systems. - The Lighting, shading, materials, global illumination, and post-processing systems. - Act as a hands-on technical leader, providing guidance on architectural decisions and implementation, from low-level details to high level choice of algorithms, and ensuring the stability and efficiency of our technology stack. - Partner with your team and other engineering leaders to define and execute the vision for the core rendering technology, anticipating future needs and trends, and ensuring our plans are aligned with the company vision. - Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and open communication, where all ideas are valued and explored, and invest in the development of our engineers. - Help build and expand our rendering organization by attracting, interviewing, and retaining top-tier engineering talent. You have: - 15+ years of rendering or graphics engineering experience, with a deep understanding of one or both of the following: - Low-level rendering pipelines, GPU architectures (preferably including mobile), and graphic APIs (e.g., Vulkan, Metal, DirectX) - Modern lighting techniques (e.g., PBR, shadowing, global illumination), material systems, and shading languages. - 5+ years of experience in a technical leadership or engineering management role, with a proven track record of building, mentoring, and leading high-performing engineering teams. - Strong C++ programming skills and a robust problem-solving background, with the ability to provide technical guidance, conduct deep-dive investigations, and contribute to design discussions. - Experience designing, building, and shipping advanced graphical features and/or performance critical systems for game engines or real-time 3D applications. - Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences and collaborate effectively across diverse teams. - A genuine enthusiasm for tackling the unique rendering challenges that Roblox faces. For roles that are based at our headquarters in Vancouver, BC, Canada: 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 $330,810 - $394,000 CAD 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.
Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack
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 Consumer Platforms - Web & Backend team owns the core web experience for www.roblox.com and the backend services that power Roblox’s consumer apps across mobile, console, desktop, and web. The team provides the foundational architecture, frameworks, and services that other product teams build on, ensuring Roblox is fast, reliable, and delightful for all our users. As a Senior Fullstack Software Engineer on this team, you’ll work across both the web platform and its backend, shaping the experience where millions of people first discover and return to Roblox. You will balance platform excellence with direct product impact - you will architect and ship end-to-end product features that define how millions of users interact with our ecosystem daily. You will: - Drive the full product lifecycle in close collaboration with product and design teams, transforming complex requirements into high-performance, polished features - Lead systematic improvements to our UI development processes and architecture. - Architect, build, and maintain our design system and component library in collaboration with cross-functional teams, while innovating associated developer tooling to ensure consistency, scalability, and boosting team productivity. - Champion best practices for writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code. - Stay ahead of industry trends in frontend & backend development, component-based frameworks, and UI/UX to drive continuous improvement. You have: - 4+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer, with a proven track record of building and shipping production-level applications. - Expertise in modern frontend technologies and component-based UI frameworks like React. - Expertise in an Object-Oriented Programming language (e.g., C#, Java, C++). - Solid experience with backend development, including designing APIs, working with microservices and databases, and building scalable server-side logic using languages such as Node.js - A deep understanding of the entire application lifecycle, from architecture and design to deployment and maintenance. - A strong design sensibility and a commitment to creating highly accessible and visually polished user interfaces. - Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to lead discussions and work effectively with product, design, and other engineering teams. - Experience with any of the following is a plus: NextJS, Node.js, Tailwind CSS, C++, Lua, contributing to or managing a design system. - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience. 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 $242,100 - $293,800 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.
Tax Manager, Global Information Reporting and Withholding
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 the Tax Manager for Global Information Reporting and Withholding , you will report to the Director of Global Indirect Tax and Information Reporting and Withholding and serve as a key advisor to operations, business units and internal stakeholders on the complex information reporting and withholding tax implications of Roblox’s product offerings and global operations. You will apply deep technical expertise in U.S. information reporting to ensure compliance, mitigate risk, and strategically support new product launches and business expansions and preferably have experience with other global reporting obligations. In this role, you will provide technical guidance on relevant tax legislation, partner with operations, business and product teams on compliance implementation, recommend system and process improvements, manage interactions with internal operations, engineering teams, and external advisors. You will also collaborate with Product and User Experience teams to manage or design seamless tax onboarding flows (e.g., W‑8/W‑9 collection) that balance IRS compliance with a low‑friction creator experience. This full‑time role follows a hybrid schedule based in our San Mateo, California office. You Will: - Serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) on U.S. and international information reporting and withholding (Chapters 3, 4, and 61), including tax characterization and sourcing of payments to a global creator base. - Manage end‑to‑end tax compliance for information reporting and withholding related to creator payments, including advising operations on tax legislation, compliance implementation, and process improvements. - Provide technical tax guidance on new product launches (e.g., monetization features, subscriptions, market expansions) to ensure global withholding obligations are met. - Recommend upgrades, modifications, and new system or process designs to support accurate and scalable tax compliance. - Partner with operations, business, product, and engineering teams to ensure ongoing understanding of information reporting and withholding requirements. - Collaborate with product and internal counsel to provide tax characterization and sourcing recommendations for new products, ensuring accurate classification of all transactions. - Support internal teams in responding to government notices, assessments, and requests for information. - Monitor and advise on emerging global reporting regimes, such as the EU’s DAC7 and Australia’s Sharing Economy Reporting Regime. You Have: - Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting, or equivalent practical experience. - 7+ years of experience with information reporting and withholding. - Cross functional experience working with operations, business and product teams. Preferred Qualifications: - Juris Doctor, Master's degree in Taxation - Experience working with IRS and state tax authorities on information reporting matters. - Experience in tax information reporting and withholding, working in a public accounting firm, law firm, government, or corporate tax department, with technical expertise in the areas of IRS Chapters 3, 4 and 61. 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 $186,900 - $228,970 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.
Senior Software Engineer, App Performance
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 Consumer App Foundation team works on core software components and solutions to make Roblox client applications more responsive, stable, and resource efficient on all supported platforms - mobile, desktop, and consoles. As Senior Software Engineer on the team, you will work on improving application performance, size, battery efficiency, and stability. You'll report to the Engineering Manager on the Consumer App Foundation team. You will: - Work with numerous teams to define and implement plans to improve performance and stability of Roblox client applications across all supported platforms - Identify new opportunities, build roadmaps, scope and drive execution of development projects - Investigate performance bottlenecks and partner with other teams on their resolution to make our applications run lightning fast on any device - Improve performance telemetry to detect and resolve performance regressions - Promote best development and testing practices to maintain stability and performance of the application You have: - 5+ years in C++, multithreading, and system programming for one or more platforms. - Proficiency in performance benchmarking, profiling and optimization - Strong expertise working on complex consumer applications for Android, iOS, macOS or Windows - Experience with Lua or other scripting languages 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 $195,780 - $242,100 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.
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