Software Development Engineer Iv 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. 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

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 Roblox as an Engineering Manager of Application Security and lead a team responsible for improving the security of our products, services, and development ecosystem. In this role, you will drive security across the software lifecycle, partnering with engineering teams to identify risks, improve secure development practices, and build scalable solutions that protect Roblox at scale. You will balance hands-on security work with longer-term investments in automation, tooling, and developer enablement. You will work closely with engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to reduce risk while enabling teams to move quickly and safely. This role reports to the Senior Manager of Application Security and is based in San Mateo with a hybrid schedule. You Have: 8+ years of experience in Information Security 2+ years of experience managing engineers Strong background in Application Security or Product Security Experience driving security programs across the software development lifecycle Solid understanding of common vulnerabilities (e.g., OWASP Top 10) and secure coding practices Experience working closely with engineering teams in modern environments (cloud, microservices, CI/CD) Prov

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 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 visi

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 pat

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 The CI and CD Foundation team is the backbone of our engineering velocity. Our mission is to engineer and deliver a CI/CD ecosystem that streamlines the integration and delivery of our core client code—including the Game Engine, Studio, and User Apps. We are laser-focused on three goals: enhancing overall build reliability, maximizing developer productivity, and ensuring consistent software quality. We’re building and improving pipelines and tools to transform SDLC in the age of AI-driven software development. The Role As a Principal Software Engineer on the CI/CD Foundation team, you will serve as the chief technical strategist and architect responsible for transforming how Roblox builds, tests, and ships code at massive scale. Our build and delivery ecosystem handles immense complexity: decades of C++ game engine code, extensive Lua applications, complex native platforms, and a sprawling monorepo with massive, growing test suites. You will lead the technical vision to modernize, decouple, and accelerate this ecosystem—driving radical improvements across our Local Dev Inner Loop (pre-commit/pre-push), CI (PR validation, speculative execution, merge queues), and CD (OTA

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 Connections? As a Principal Software Engineer on the Connections team, 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, including profiles, names, online presence, co-play tools, and social proof, while also developing new zero-to-one features. If you are an experienced developer who loves to write code, ship user-facing features, mentor engineers, up-level frontend development, and drive product vision, you’ll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on this team. This role is based at Roblox HQ in San Mateo, CA (no remote option). You Will: Design, build, and ship features that power the social graph for millions of users Architect scalable, long-term solutions Collaborate with teams across the company to translate ambitious business goals into a concrete, multi-year technical roadmap Serve as a technical leader, setting engineering standards and mentoring other engineers You Have: 8+ years of experience in software development with web

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 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 pi

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 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 Principal Software Engineer, you will set the technical direction for transforming development at Roblox from its solid roots to a fully scaled, globally mature, AI-powered development, code review and CI environment. If you are passionate about engineering productivity and you've ever wanted to define — not just build — the systems that fundamentally change how an entire engineering organization operates, this is your opportunity. You Will: Own, scale, and define the long-term technical vision for Roblox's source code search, storage, review, and CI infrastructure for the next 10 years of growth. Architect software that improves the lives of your coworkers — spanning local development tools, internal web apps and microservices, reusable CI workflows, productivity metrics toolchains, and integrations across many 1st and 3rd party tools. Lead and drive major company-wide efforts improving the productivity and user experience of our Source and CI tools, setting direction across teams 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. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Engineering Manager to join our Engine UI team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the development of our state-of-the-art game engine, building out User Interface capabilities across all of Roblox. No matter the platform, be it mobile, desktop or consoles, you will help enable our game developers to unlock, accelerate, and promote the creation of high quality, performant UI that empowers meaningful interaction. You Will: Lead the development on 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 Take lead in authoring and reviewing API proposals to expose UI capability to Luau; our fast, Lua-derived scripting language that powers user-generated creation Manage Senior Engineers and provide technical guidance Work closely with our game developer community to help achieve their creative vision Have fun learning about what makes Roblox an amazing platform and place to work, while supplying to industry leading technologies You have: 8+ years of professional development experience and 5+ years of management experience Fluent programmin

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

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 area

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. We’re looking for an EM to lead a team of exceptional ML infrastructure engineers, 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 strategic planning and roadmap execution of scalable production-ready ML systems including model training, data pipelines, feature engineering and model inference. Own the architecture, establish engineering best practices of scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of ML infrastructure (e.g., training, serving, feature). 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. Recruit, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of ML infrastructure engineers. You Have: 5+ years of experienc

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 an Engineering Manager to lead a critical area of Roblox Creator Success focused on Creator Analytics. This role requires strong technical leadership, sound engineering judgment, and the ability to lead through complex technical challenges. The ideal candidate brings experience in analytics platforms, experimentation systems, or large-scale data products, and is comfortable leading high-performing engineering teams. 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 Creator Analytics systems. Set and uphold a high engineering quality bar. Lead a team of senior engineers across frontend, backend, and fullstack development. Drive alignment and execution across related partner teams including Product and Data Platform. Partner with senior engineering leadership to translate long-term technical strategy into durable roadmaps and execution plans. Help shape Creator Analytics into a best-in-class analytics platform for both emerging creators and professional developers. You Have: 8+ years of engineering experience, including work on large-scale and long-lived