Technical Lead Backend 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. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Foundation AI organization, you will sit at the epicenter of our foundation model efforts. While the research world is focused on architecture, you will be the architect of the data flywheel that makes VideoGen and 3DGen possible. You aren't just building pipelines; you are building the infrastructure that defines how our models perceive and generate virtual worlds in three dimensions and across time. In this role, you will partner directly with our AI researchers to advance beyond experimental datasets and into the realm of dynamic, high-fidelity data synthesis and evaluation. You will bridge the gap between research prototypes working locally to scaling for millions of users. You will design, implement, and scale robust, high-performance infrastructure to crawl, create, curate, store, and serve the massive datasets required for these models. We are seeking accomplished software engineers with a passion for data, experience building large distributed systems, and a commitment to writing high-quality, well-tested code to solve complex data challenges at scale. Your contributions will ensure that our foundation models receive the highest quality dat

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 help develop and validate next-generation server platforms that power a reliable, high-performing, and cost-efficient infrastructure at scale. You will work across platform bring-up, firmware qualification, hardware validation, fleet integration, and performance optimization to support large-scale production deployments. You Will: Bring-up & Sustaining: Drive key aspects of the hardware development lifecycle, including feasibility studies, hardware bring-up, validation, deployment, and ongoing production support. Platform Optimization: Perform platform integration, performance characterization, and system-level debugging across compute infrastructure, focusing on hardware optimization, driver tuning, and thermal/power efficiency. Hardware Validation: Develop and execute rigorous evaluation and stress-testing strategies for server platforms to ensure reliability and performance under production-scale workloads. Firmware & Fleet Enablement: Support BIOS/BMC firmware qualification, hardware health monitoring, and automation tooling for firmware deployment and lifecycle management. Vendor & Cross-Functi

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 Frontend Software Engineer on the Marketplace team, you will architect and scale the applications powering Roblox's Avatar Marketplace—the core digital storefront driving one of the largest virtual economies globally. This ecosystem facilitates self-expression for hundreds of millions of monthly active users and manages a catalog of hundreds of millions of items, serving as a primary revenue engine for both Roblox and our global community of User-Generated Content (UGC) creators. This is a high-leverage, high-impact role where you will design, build, and optimize cross-platform UI/UX across iOS, Android, Xbox, and cutting-edge VR platforms. If you are an expert at developing user facing applications and are passionate about user experience, you will be right at home with us! You will: Own high-traffic, mission-critical surfaces visited by millions of users daily. Your code will directly influence user engagement, retention and bookings. Architect and build marketplace experiences that drive discovery and monetization for a booming ecosystem of independent creators and brands. Partner with Product, Design and Data Science teams to run A/B tests, analyze user interactions, 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. ML Platform @ Roblox today supports hundreds of ML use cases and billions of inferences per day across Discovery, Safety, Engine, and much more. As a Model Optimization engineer on ML Platform, you will be responsible for digging deep into model internals to optimize performance, for both training and inference. We are looking for accomplished engineers to help us maximize performance of our platform. You Will: Optimize machine learning models for performance on GPU architectures, focusing on both training and inference workflows. Conduct low-level performance profiling analysis to identify bottlenecks in existing machine learning pipelines and propose actionable improvements. Contribute to the development of best practices and tooling for model optimization and deployment. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists and software engineers, to integrate and deploy optimized models into production environments. 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 performant system

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 Frontend Software Engineer on the Marketplace team, you will architect and scale the applications powering Roblox's Avatar Marketplace—the core digital storefront driving one of the largest virtual economies globally. This ecosystem facilitates self-expression for hundreds of millions of monthly active users and manages a catalog of hundreds of millions of items, serving as a primary revenue engine for both Roblox and our global community of User-Generated Content (UGC) creators. This is a high-leverage, high-impact role where you will design, build, and optimize cross-platform UI/UX across iOS, Android, Xbox, and cutting-edge VR platforms. If you are an expert at developing user facing applications and are passionate about user experience, you will be right at home with us! You will: Own high-traffic, mission-critical surfaces visited by millions of users daily. Your code will directly influence user engagement, retention and bookings. Architect and build marketplace experiences that drive discovery and monetization for a booming ecosystem of independent creators and brands. Partner with Product, Design and Data Science teams to run A/B tests, analyze user interactions, 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 a Senior Content Designer , you’ll be a key member of the Accounts design team, playing a critical role in building the systems that keep Roblox safe, civil, and inclusive for a global community. You’ll focus on creating platform-level designs that make all accounts on Roblox accessible, authentic, and protected. Roblox’s mission is to connect a billion people with optimism and civility. The Safety organization is at the heart of that mission, working to ensure everyone has seamless and secure access to accounts tied to their identity. We also work on building a world-class account access and management system, ensuring safe and fun family experiences, supporting compliance with global regulations, and providing a healthy, inclusive environment for users of all ages. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams across product, design, engineering, and research, shaping the platform's approach to trust and safety through thoughtful design. This is an opportunity to work at the systems level—defining how safety and account are embedded across Roblox and designing reusable frameworks that power our vision of civil immersive online communities. You will: Own and deliver UX content

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 and Luau Platform team builds the shared platform that Roblox's user interface runs on. Our UI is written in Luau, Roblox's scripting language, using React-style frameworks. We own the core pieces that product teams across Roblox rely on: a component library used across Roblox's apps and tools, server-driven UI, the core app frame and navigation, and the frameworks and libraries underneath them. Our goal is to make that platform fast, consistent, and reliable for the engineers who build on it. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will help shape and build it, working across systems, platforms, and infrastructure. You Will Design and build the frameworks and APIs that Roblox's UI is built on, including layout and navigation systems, server-driven UI, and a shared component library Build and evolve the core systems beneath the UI, such as navigation, routing, state management, and data flow, so features load quickly and behave consistently Drive startup performance, transition smoothness, and layout stability across the client on phones, tablets, and desktop, using traces and telemetry to set measurable quality bars Roll out platform changes safely at scale, using feature flags,

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: Avatars are core to our mission and everyday, millions of people come to Marketplace or other avatar shopping experiences to discover and shop for creations that help them express their individuality. They dress and play with their avatar as they connect with friends across thousands of immersive digital experiences. Powering the creativity of our Marketplace is our community of creators and developers who are building businesses and establishing their brand by selling creations. These creators range from individuals to small businesses to large brands, all of which are attracted to the Roblox platform, community and offerings. Our Marketplace is a critical component of Roblox’s economy, accounting for a third of economic activity on the platform. As a Senior Product Manager responsible for Avatar creators, you will have a front seat at shaping the future of the Marketplace and what it means to build an economy powered by our community. You will: Be responsible for building and shipping creator driven products that unlock more expression on the platform Have ownership of our UGC creator ecosystem, decide which new categories we should build, man

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 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 architectural 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 scratch Enhance 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

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 member of the Roblox Security Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) team, you will play a key role in supporting the Security team’s mission. The GRC team is at the heart of Roblox's security organization — empowering every builder to make risk-informed decisions by establishing a portfolio of governing policies and standards, a repeatable and scalable method of assessing and quantifying risk, and a formal oversight process for GRC capabilities across Roblox. Our program takes a balanced, "right-sized" approach to security governance — combining qualitative and quantitative risk management methodologies, including Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR), to assess and prioritize the security risks that matter most to Roblox. GRC partners closely with Engineering, Legal, Finance, and leadership — including providing regular reporting to the Board of Directors and the Audit & Compliance Committee — to ensure that security risk is visible, well-understood, and actioned appropriately. The team is in an exciting phase of growth and innovation. We are using engineering to drive automation across risk management, policy lifecycle management, supply chain risk, AI risk, and controls 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. At Roblox, we are growing and looking for a Technical Sourcer to help build, scale, and influence our recruiting landscape. We are a fun and collaborative team focused on recruiting engineering 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. As a Technical Sourcer you will directly impact the growth of the company and support our scaling efforts. You Will: Drive hiring for critical technical roles across Engineering, Machine Learning, AI, Research. Proactively source and engage top talent through Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOut, GitHub, arXiv, google scholar, and AI/ML research communities, amongst others. Influence and improve processes to help the team work smarter, faster, and at scale. Partner with engineering and data leaders to define role scopes, assess capability gaps, and shape hiring strategy across emerging domains like generative AI, LLMs, computer vision, and infrastructure automation. Share talent market insights with hiring managers to guide decisions on leveling, compensation, and candidate profiles. Mentor and coach hiring managers

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 Administration team at Roblox provides core administrative support and serves as strategic partners to our business leaders. You Will: Provide executive support to the Chief Business Officer and VP, Business Development. Strategically manage complex calendars — allocating time against priorities, protecting focus time, and proactively resolving conflicts before they surface. Serve as a trusted operational proxy for executives – ensuring their time is optimized, they are delegating effectively, and anticipating what is needed before being asked. Drive continuous process improvement across the org — identifying what isn't working, owning the fix, and sharing better practices with the broader E/ABP community. Plan and execute impactful team events, including team building activities, off-sites, and recognition programs. Maintain team communication channels, meeting notes, project plans, goals, and group tasks. Manage the confidential execution of organizational changes, including information flow, timing, and discretion across sensitive people movements. Engage in frequent written and verbal correspondence with high-profile external partners and clients. Collaborate effec

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 Video Team is responsible for adaptive video playback and rendering, screen recording, camera capture, live video, video ads, video transcoding, and moderation. We develop on mobile, desktops, consoles, web, and our backend microservices platform. This is a hands-on role focused on Android with the opportunity to work across all the areas. This role is not a video codec research or implementation position; we only use industry-standard codecs. You Will: Design, develop, use AI/LLMs, optimize, and debug video capture, encoding, playback, and rendering focused on the Android platform using NDK APIs like Vulkan and AMediaCodec. Innovate, architect, and implement our vision for video in a 3D immersive environment. Have the opportunity to work across our platforms (desktop, mobile, and consoles). Have the opportunity to work on our backend microservices Collaborate with different teams all across Roblox to develop new uses of video. Be guided to create state of the art video tech for gaming industry You Are: An experienced engineer with 8+ years of designing, developing, and debugging complex C++ applications running on Android. An expert with the wide variety of Android devices from junk to

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 Senior 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 7+ 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