Senior Software Engineer 2c Data Orchestration 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. 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 senior 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 sc

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. Portal, part of Roblox’s Engine Productivity team, builds productivity tools for the hundreds of engineers developing Roblox’s game engine, desktop clients, apps, and Roblox Studio. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build the systems that bring AI agents into engine development workflows. On a small team with broad reach, you will help decide where AI can meaningfully improve engineering productivity and take solutions from early experiments to reliable tools engineers use every day. You will: Own improvements to developer workflows, from identifying problems with engineers to designing and shipping productivity tools and measuring their impact. Build AI agent sandboxes and harnesses written in C and Rust, along with the integrations and context agents needed to work effectively in Roblox’s C++ game engine codebase. Partner with technical leaders across Roblox’s Engine and Infrastructure groups to deliver reliable tools and improve the daily experience of engineering at Roblox. You have: 5+ years of software engineering experience working on projects from 0 to 1. Experience owning substantial parts of a developer tool or system through design, launch, and ongoing operation. Systems pr

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. Portal, part of Roblox’s Engine Productivity team, builds productivity tools for the hundreds of engineers developing Roblox’s game engine, desktop clients, apps, and Roblox Studio. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build the systems that bring AI agents into engine development workflows. On a small team with broad reach, you will help decide where AI can meaningfully improve engineering productivity and take solutions from early experiments to reliable tools engineers use every day. You will: Own improvements to developer workflows, from identifying problems with engineers to designing and shipping productivity tools and measuring their impact. Build AI agent sandboxes and harnesses written in C and Rust, along with the integrations and context agents needed to work effectively in Roblox’s C++ game engine codebase. Partner with technical leaders across Roblox’s Engine and Infrastructure groups to deliver reliable tools and improve the daily experience of engineering at Roblox. You have: 5+ years of software engineering experience working on projects from 0 to 1. Experience owning substantial parts of a developer tool or system through design, launch, and ongoing operation. Systems pr

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. Job Description The Geometry Scalability team builds the systems that power both Avatars and Environments across Roblox. Our mission is to enable millions of developers to build large, high-fidelity worlds and multiplayer experiences that still run smoothly on phones and low-end devices. We’re the team that lets Roblox experiences evolve from simple platformers into massively multiplayer, open-world, AAA-quality games. This is a CEO-level priority: how Roblox “ages up” from kids’ games to experiences everyone wants to play, by making higher-fidelity avatars and environments performant at platform scale. You Will: Design and ship 3D engine systems for avatar and environment geometry, including mesh processing, level of detail, transcoding, streaming, runtime loading, and related performance systems. Partner closely with other teams (Rendering, Avatar, Studio) and external developers so that the features you build are directly usable to create amazing experiences. Profile and improve the performance of our game engine across a wide range of devices, with particular attention to mobile. Lead by example: drive projects end-to-end, mentor other engineers, and help set a high bar for technical qu

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. Job Description The Geometry Scalability team builds the systems that power both Avatars and Environments across Roblox. Our mission is to enable millions of developers to build large, high-fidelity worlds and multiplayer experiences that still run smoothly on phones and low-end devices. We’re the team that lets Roblox experiences evolve from simple platformers into massively multiplayer, open-world, AAA-quality games. This is a CEO-level priority: how Roblox “ages up” from kids’ games to experiences everyone wants to play, by making higher-fidelity avatars and environments performant at platform scale. You Will: Design and ship 3D engine systems for avatar and environment geometry, including mesh processing, level of detail, transcoding, streaming, runtime loading, and related performance systems. Partner closely with other teams (Rendering, Avatar, Studio) and external developers so that the features you build are directly usable to create amazing experiences. Profile and improve the performance of our game engine across a wide range of devices, with particular attention to mobile. Lead by example: drive projects end-to-end, mentor other engineers, and help set a high bar for technical qu

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. Job Description The Geometry Scalability team builds the systems that power both Avatars and Environments across Roblox. Our mission is to enable millions of developers to build large, high-fidelity worlds and multiplayer experiences that still run smoothly on phones and low-end devices. We’re the team that lets Roblox experiences evolve from simple platformers into massively multiplayer, open-world, AAA-quality games. This is a CEO-level priority: how Roblox “ages up” from kids’ games to experiences everyone wants to play, by making higher-fidelity avatars and environments performant at platform scale. You Will: Design and ship 3D engine systems for avatar and environment geometry, including mesh processing, level of detail, transcoding, streaming, runtime loading, and related performance systems. Partner closely with other teams (Rendering, Avatar, Studio) and external developers so that the features you build are directly usable to create amazing experiences. Profile and improve the performance of our game engine across a wide range of devices, with particular attention to mobile. Lead by example: drive projects end-to-end, mentor other engineers, and help set a high bar for technical qu

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 (Backend) on the Co-Experience team, you will work on high-visibility initiatives that define the future of age-appropriate communication. You will build and maintain the services behind a social ecosystem that keeps interactions safe, civil, and meaningful 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. We already have a strong foundation of chat, private gameplay, gameplay mechanics, and creator APIs. We need your expertise to strengthen the backend infrastructure underneath it, 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 Will: Collaborate within a cross-functional team that includes product, design, UXR, frontend and backend engineering. Take end-to-end ownership of projects. Drive

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 7+ 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 o

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 Application Gateway team to build the networking infrastructure that makes this possible. You Will: Design, build, and operate Roblox's Envoy-based application gateway fleet — the front door for billions of daily requests — owning L7 routing, authentication, rate limiting, and traffic policy end to end. Own the reliability and scale characteristics of the gateway: capacity and headroom modeling, failure isolation and blast-radius reduction, progressive delivery of config and code changes, and measurable reduction in edge-caused incidents

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 Fleet Management team, you will lead the systems that provision and rebuild Roblox's global fleet across bare metal and cloud. This team owns provisioning, and MAPI, the global Machine API that turns raw capacity into production-ready infrastructure in minutes, across hundreds of thousands of machines on-prem and cloud environments, including new GPU and new AI infrastructure. You will shape the technical direction for this critical compute platform and unify diverse hardware and environment-specific workflows behind MAPI and drive large-scale maintenance operations like firmware updates and hardware tuning. You will: Lead the Machine Bootstrap pod in building and evolving provisioning and fleet management at massive scale. Ship fleet-wide maintenance operations (BIOS updates, firmware updates, configuration changes) to hundreds of thousands of machines through MAPI. Drive best-in-class provisioning performance, minutes to fully rebuild a machine from scratch. Evaluate and integrate new hardware platforms including GPU servers and AI accelerators into the provisioning pipeline. Collaborate across Compute, Networking, and Cloud teams on the full machine l

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 User Behavior? You will build the backend systems that fundamentally shift how Roblox responds to unsafe behavior - from reactive, stateless punishment to a personalized, adaptive system that reflects who a user actually is. You will own core backend infrastructure for a new capability at Roblox: a low-latency behavioral data layer, a centralized rules-and-inference engine, and a unified intervention-delivery framework that together let us treat users based on their real risk profile instead of a single point total. This is a rare opportunity to build foundational, high-scale systems that directly shape how Roblox understands and responds to risk across hundreds of millions of users. You will feel a deep sense of responsibility building systems that directly affect millions of users, especially minors, on one of the world's largest platforms. Your work will reduce harm, improve fairness, and help ensure Roblox remains a place where creativity and community can thrive safely. You will: Build the User Behavior Foundation: Design and operate the low-latency, per-user behavioral data layer that powers real-time safety decisions - aggregating signals like violation history, in-game reports,

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 Team provides a secure, scalable, and extensible foundation for ingestion, processing, storing, managing, and serving user content. As a Senior 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 have: Experience: You have 7+ 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 hav

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 relate

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. Job Description The Geometry Scalability team builds the systems that power both Avatars and Environments across Roblox. Our mission is to enable millions of developers to build large, high-fidelity worlds and multiplayer experiences that still run smoothly on phones and low-end devices. We’re the team that lets Roblox experiences evolve from simple platformers into massively multiplayer, open-world, AAA-quality games. This is a CEO-level priority: how Roblox “ages up” from kids’ games to experiences everyone wants to play, by making higher-fidelity avatars and environments performant at platform scale. You Will: Design and ship 3D engine systems for avatar and environment geometry, including mesh processing, level of detail, transcoding, streaming, runtime loading, and related performance systems. Partner closely with other teams (Rendering, Avatar, Studio) and external developers so that the features you build are directly usable to create amazing experiences. Profile and improve the performance of our game engine across a wide range of devices, with particular attention to mobile. Lead by example: drive projects end-to-end, mentor other engineers, and help set a high bar for technical qu

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 Apps Desktop team owns the Windows and macOS foundation behind every Roblox session on a PC or Mac: the window, the launch path, and the shell that holds everything together. You will own that foundation with us. We are dedicated to delivering superior performance, reliability, and user experience on Windows and Macs. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Desktop team, you'll be a driving technical force; you will lead complex client work end-to-end and raise the quality bar across our codebase. You will lead projects at that scale end-to-end, set the technical standard in a codebase millions of people depend on daily, and partner with product, design, and platform teams to ship work that is polished and fast at scale. You Will: Shape & improve the Windows and macOS experience that millions of players see every day. Own major Windows and MacOS initiatives end-to-end from ambiguous idea to shipped, measured, and iterated on. Rebuild the parts of the app every player touches: how it launches, how it renders, how it lives in the OS. Set the technical standard through code review, mentorship, and the code you write yourself. Make platform bets that pay off for engineering teams