Senior Infrastructure Engineer in San Mateo

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

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 fundamental 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 Senior Data Engineer, you will work to define the data ontology for all of Roblox, establish standard methodologies for data operations and lifecycle management, design and build analytics tooling and frameworks, and influence event instrumentation. Additionally, this role is highly multi-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. This role will report to our Engineering Manager on the Data Engineering team. You Will: Partner with Data Science, 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 an

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 Luau App Foundations team is responsible for the core infrastructure of the Roblox application. They bridge the gap between app and the performance-heavy Roblox game engine. This team is building the unified stack that powers mission-critical surfaces like Home, Avatar, and Social for millions of concurrent users. They are the ones who make it possible for "Web-style" development efficiency to exist within a high-performance C++ game engine. Why is this role exciting: Technical Pioneer: You will be writing libraries and modules using C++ inside a world class Roblox proprietary Game Engine. Systematic Impact: This is a "Force Multiplier" role. The frameworks and components you build will be used by dozens of other engineering teams to ship their features. Complex Problem Solving: You aren’t just building an app; you’re managing smooth data flow through a client that has to perform perfectly on a $100 Android phone and a $3,000 Gaming PC simultaneously. 0 to 1 Transitions: You will lead the charge in shaping some of the most crucial components of the App written in C++ inside the Game Engine. Key Challenges: Bridging Tech Stacks: The libraries you write sit between a modern UI (written in

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 scalabil

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: The Marketplace team, part of the Economy org, owns the platform and infrastructure that supports the Avatar customization and Avatar Marketplace within Roblox. As a Senior Engineer on our team, you will lead the work on building personalized and streamlined shopping experiences for over 100M users within Roblox. Beyond this scope, you will be involved with several additional areas also owned by subteams such as: Avatar Identity Scaling and Serving Avatars to tens of millions of users on the platform Building new Avatar customization features and continuously improving user experience Driving users and creators towards high-quality, high-fidelity Avatars that will shape Roblox’s look and feel going forward The systems above power the engine APIs that enable developers to monetize their games on Roblox, earning hundreds of millions of dollars per year, while processing billions of transactions. The ideal candidate is passionate about understanding customer needs, optimizing performance, and delivering exceptional user experiences. You Have: 3+ years of professional experience in software development Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as C#, Go,

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 Access team within Infra / Storage builds EaaS (Entities-as-a-Service), Roblox’s large-scale managed OLTP access and management platform powering tens of millions of QPS across thousands of services. EaaS abstracts the complexity of distributed databases and caching systems behind a consistent and productive developer experience, enabling teams across Roblox to safely build and operate stateful systems at massive scale without requiring deep database expertise. The team operates at the intersection of distributed systems engineering, reliability engineering, and platform architecture — solving hard infrastructure problems that directly impact Roblox-wide scale and stability. As a Senior Software Engineer you will work on some of Roblox’s hardest backend infrastructure challenges around scalability, reliability, workload governance, adaptive flow control, and distributed systems. You Will Build and evolve EaaS, Roblox’s managed OLTP access platform powering tens of millions of QPS across hundreds of services. Design infrastructure that abstracts distributed databases and caching systems behind a consistent, safe, and highly productive developer experience. Drive reliability and scal

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 Infrastructure Compute Site Reliability Engineering mission is to own and manage the successful operation of our underlying cell infrastructure system, along with elements of service discovery, secrets management and related software layers. We’re looking for a skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer with strong programming skills to help us build Roblox's private cloud, productionize our growing Kubernetes-based infrastructure, and institute reliability best practices across the Roblox Compute team. You will: Design and Develop systems & libraries that promote fault-tolerance and resilience, automate much of the management and lifecycle of our clusters, and ensure systems are observable. Promote and Institute reliability best practices across the Infra Compute group, drive common reliability initiatives. Provides collaborative technical reviews and operational guidance to strengthen system reliability. Build, Automate and Standardize process automation to create a "golden path" of tooling and platform support that powers the fundamental Roblox ecosystem. Create Tooling that provides production guardrails, by evaluating release candidate capacity with load testing tooling before de

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 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 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 Safety Foundation? Safety Foundation is the infrastructure backbone that powers safety across Roblox. Every piece of content reviewed, every moderation action taken, every safety workflow running anywhere on the platform flows through systems built by this team. We are the platform that other safety teams build on — and righ

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 Privacy Engineer on the Security and Privacy GRC team, you will shepherd and grow Roblox's Privacy Review Program, the technical and process backbone that ensures privacy is engineered into every product before it ships. You will join the Security and Privacy GRC team, reporting to the Sr Engineering Manager for Privacy Governance and Operations. This is a hands-on privacy engineering role: you'll set standards for privacy-enhancing technologies, act as the go-to SME for policy-as-code, and partner closely with Product teams, Trust & Safety, Legal, and Regulatory Compliance as part of Roblox's broader cross-functional privacy program. You will: Shepherd and evolve the Privacy Review Program, designing consistent intake workflows, evaluation criteria, and documentation to systematically assess privacy risk across new products, features, and infrastructure changes. Develop standards and guidelines that enable product teams to adopt privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) such as differential privacy, k-anonymity, data minimization, and secure computation, with clear guidance on trade-offs and implementation patterns. Act as the Privacy SME for policy-as-code, translating privacy

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 relea

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. As a Senior Software Engineer on our Release Engineering team, you will build the systems that hundreds of engineers across Roblox use every day to safely ship code to tens of millions of concurrent players. Your work will empower teams to ship bold, high-impact changes quickly and confidently on every device Roblox runs on. If you enjoy building developer-facing infrastructure where reliability and blast radius directly impact end-users, you will be right at home on our growing team. You Will: Design and develop backend services and automation that power our release and experimentation process across desktop, mobile, console, VR, and servers Work in C++ engine code to improve telemetry reporting, enhance feature rollout and automatic abort capabilities, and extend release functionality Build progressive client and server rollout, regression detection, and automated rollback systems that keep our weekly multi-platform releases safe at scale Work directly with engineering customers to turn pain points into durable, flexible, and safe-by-default tooling You Have: 5+ years building backend services with C#, Python, TypeScript, or similar Familiar with and comfortable working with C++ Familiar

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 Cell Platform team at Roblox, you will build systems that Roblox engineers use to create and deploy resources onto Kubernetes. Our engineers deploy their services in a complex, hybrid, multiple-cluster, K8s environment. The Cell Platform manages this complexity for our users, with tools, APIs, K8s controllers, and UX, simplifying infrastructure for our internal customers. You Have: A desire to work on critical, large-scale distributed systems An appreciation of observability and instrumentation and tooling to make your life easier 3+ years of experience as software engineer Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or an equivalent field You will: Build our Roblox-wide control plane using Kubernetes primitives (and plenty of custom resources) Work on the interface of the few hundred person infrastructure organization to the thousands of Roblox engineers Write and review high quality code and tests (largely Golang) Work on a team that cares about inclusivity and shipping 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

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 Communications team, you'll own the backend systems that power chat and messaging for millions of players on Roblox and support billions of messages per day. Your day-to-day will focus on building and scaling the infrastructure that makes in-game communication fast, safe, and reliable. That means driving architectural decisions, creating communication modes that don't exist yet, and defining developer-facing APIs so creators can build richer experiences. You'll work closely with frontend engineers, platform, product, and design, and you'll have real influence over the technical and product direction of the team. If you're an experienced engineer who gets excited about large-scale distributed systems and wants to shape the way millions of people connect inside virtual worlds, we'd love to talk. You Will Build and scale backend infrastructure for millions of concurrent users, architecting high-throughput distributed services, integrating ML models, and enabling rapid product experimentation Equip creators with the APIs and tools to build deeply integrated social experiences in their games Own projects end-to-end: from design and architecture through produc

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. The Engineering Acceleration Foundations team delivers a world-class development experience to our 2000+ Roblox teammates who write, build, and ship the most incredible virtual experience platform in the world. As a Senior Software Engineer within our Engineering Acceleration team, you will be deep in the middle of transforming development at Roblox from its solid roots to a fully scaled, globally mature, AI-native platform for empowering engineers. If you are passionate about engineering productivity and you’ve ever wanted to have company-wide impact where you can design, code, and make decisions that fundamentally change how things are done - this is your opportunity! You Will: Support, scale, secure and redefine Roblox’s development cycle including source control, code search, artifact creation and distribution, and local and remote development infrastructure for the next 10 years of growth. Help create software that improves the lives of your coworkers with new local development tools, internal web apps and microservices, reusable CI workflows, productivity metrics toolchains, and integrations across many 1st and 3rd party tools. Collaborate on efforts improving the productivity and use

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. The Engineering Acceleration Foundations team delivers a world-class development experience to our 2000+ Roblox teammates who write, build, and ship the most incredible virtual experience platform in the world. As a Senior Software Engineer within our Engineering Acceleration team, you will be deep in the middle of transforming development at Roblox from its solid roots to a fully scaled, globally mature, AI-native platform for empowering engineers. If you are passionate about engineering productivity and you’ve ever wanted to have company-wide impact where you can design, code, and make decisions that fundamentally change how things are done - this is your opportunity! You Will: Support, scale, secure and redefine Roblox’s development cycle including source control, code search, artifact creation and distribution, and local and remote development infrastructure for the next 10 years of growth. Help create software that improves the lives of your coworkers with new local development tools, internal web apps and microservices, reusable CI workflows, productivity metrics toolchains, and integrations across many 1st and 3rd party tools. Collaborate on efforts improving the productivity and use