Systems Engineering Intern 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. ML Platform @ Roblox today supports hundreds of ML use cases and billions of inferences per day across Discovery, Safety, Engine, and much more. As an Infrastructure Engineer on the ML Platform team, you will design, scale, and maintain the foundational infrastructure powering our entire machine learning ecosystem. We are looking for accomplished engineers to spearhead the development of our next-generation ML tooling and platform capabilities. You will: Bootstrap and maintain Kubernetes and Cloud infrastructure for ML Platform components--Serving Layer, Metadata Store, Model Registry, and Pipeline Orchestrator. Set technical strategy and oversee development of high scale and reliable infrastructure systems. Propose and implement new platform tooling to improve time to production for MLEs and Data Scientists across the full ML lifecycle. Work on infrastructure projects such as GPU fleet management, hybrid-cloud orchestration, and writing custom Kubernetes controllers and resources. Stay abreast of industry trends in machine learning and infrastructure to ensure the adoption of leading-edge technologies and practices. Partner across organizations to build tooling, interfaces, and visualizati

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and 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 Orchestration pod within Engine Productivity, you'll design and run the platform that executes large-scale end-to-end and integration tests, running the real, shipping client on real hardware, across Roblox's data centers, cloud, and our own device labs, so our engineering teams can ship the engine, clients, Studio, and more with speed and confidence. Every Roblox engine, client, and Studio change, along with the experiences built on top of them, should ship with confidence, and the Orchestration team is the layer that makes that possible. We build large-scale distributed services that turn thousands of test suites into a reliable, push-button pipeline: fanning work out across fleets of machines and real devices, moving artifacts to where they're needed, managing single- and multi-client test state, and giving test owners and maintainers a system to validate their own runs. It looks a lot like building a specialized cloud platform, with capacity-aware scheduling, isolation and sandboxing, and smart retry and backoff, plus the classic distributed systems problems (fairness, efficiency, failure handling, and reliability) at Roblox scale. You Will: Design 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. What You’ll Do: As a Senior Software Engineer on the Creator Business team, you will help drive a healthy and ever-growing creator economy at Roblox. Our mission is to help Creators efficiently operationalize their revenue so they can invest in and grow their business. The team works on complex areas such as monetization analytics, revenue reporting, payouts, and taxes, requiring penny-perfect accuracy and zero defects. We are looking for someone who can work with product managers and data science on end-to-end requirements to develop and maintain a scalable, secure, and reliable platform for our creators to thrive. As we are responsible for a large portion of the company’s revenue, you will drive projects with high impact and visibility. You will: Develop remarkable products and systems that will delight our users Work with the product, data science, and design to help refine requirements Contribute to or drive the overall end to end system design Have the opportunity to push the boundaries of what’s next for the company Help recruit future talent for the team You Have: 3+ years of experience developing consumer-facing products Proficiency in building and scaling data pipelines Exper

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. As an Economy Fraud engineer, you defend Roblox from all types of fraud, including theft, scams, money laundering, and payment fraud. Roblox is a high-growth, unique product environment. You will be developing anti-fraud and abuse solutions for web, mobile, and 3D environments. This high impact work and your innovation is critical for the well-being of our community and to the future of our company. We aim for our users to have peace of mind that their communities and transactions are protected. Our defenses also protect our company’s rapid expansion and safeguard billions in revenue. Roblox’s virtual marketplace handles over 4 million transactions a day, and enables our top developers to make millions of dollars a year. Our team’s challenges are not just regular day-to-day technical challenges. Fraud and abuse approaches need to shift over time, depending on the current behaviors of fraudsters. As an Economy Fraud engineer, you will be in a data-driven environment developing both classical and novel approaches to detect and prevent this bad behavior. You Have: 4+ years of professional experience working with scalable, distributed systems Strong experience in large-scale, data-driven

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and 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 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 Ads User Experience team at Roblox is dedicated to developing cutting-edge software and integrations that facilitate ads on Roblox. Our focus lies in building a first-of-its-kind ads system in our Game Engine. We are developing different ad formats and integrations, starting with video. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with an expertise in C++. This is a high-impact position. Ads at Roblox is at the beginning of our journey, presenting an amazing opportunity to get in at the ground floor and help build a multi-billion dollar business from scratch. We are approaching this challenge with a strong focus on performance and a deep respect for our community — ensuring everyone continues to have an exceptional experience on Roblox. As we move toward enabling cooperative experiences for an infinite number of players in infinitely scalable worlds, we are looking for a Senior Engineer who is both technically exceptional and capable of delivering meaningful, real-world impact. You Will: Help build a first-of-its-kind ads system within the Roblox Game Engine Develop new ad formats and integrations, starting with video Contribute to the design and performance of systems that

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and 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 Privacy Infrastructure team, you’ll design and build large-scale systems that operate across Roblox’s platform and data ecosystem. You’ll tackle complex distributed systems challenges, develop reliable and scalable infrastructure, and work across engineering teams to deliver foundational capabilities that serve millions of users. This is an opportunity to take on high-impact technical problems at Roblox scale while helping shape the next generation of our infrastructure. You Will Design, build, and scale reliable infrastructure and platform solutions that protect user data and support the needs of a global platform. Develop foundational capabilities for emerging technologies, including agentic AI workflows, with a focus on safe and responsible data access. Partner with engineering teams across Roblox to integrate scalable data protection capabilities into their systems and development workflows Drive technical strategy and architecture for complex, cross-cutting challenges spanning data, infrastructure, privacy, and security. You Have 7+ years of proven experience as a software engineer. Expertise in Python or Golang; Strong understanding of 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 Cloud Security Engineer, you will define and implement the security strategy and controls across our hybrid and multi-cloud environment. Embedded within the Platform Security team, you will operate with a high degree of autonomy, partnering closely with Infosec and Infrastructure teams to secure our cloud infrastructure. Your architectural decisions will directly impact the security of a global platform. You Will: Create Paved Roads: Build innovative services and tooling that make the secure path the easiest path, enabling developers to deploy faster and safer. Engineer Self-Healing Infrastructure: Architect and scale systems that monitor our cloud posture and automatically enforce a self-healing security baseline. Design Secure-by-Default Blueprints: Partner deeply with infrastructure teams to bake threat modeling and secure-by-default patterns into the core DNA of our cloud environments. Implement Effective Guardrails: Deploy organizational security controls that protect our developers without slowing them down. Advance Detections: Write and optimize detections tailored specifically to our footprint. You Have: 4+ years: of relevant professional experience. Experience writing 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 Privacy Software Engineer on the Privacy Infrastructure team, you will design and build the foundational platforms, services, and controls that enable Roblox to protect user data and meet global privacy obligations at scale. You will develop privacy-by-design solutions that support data governance, user privacy rights, data discovery, retention, auditing, and regulatory compliance across a rapidly growing ecosystem of products and services. This role sits at the intersection of distributed systems, data platforms, security, and privacy engineering. You will partner closely with engineers, product teams, security, legal, and policy stakeholders to build scalable privacy infrastructure that is deeply integrated into Roblox's development workflows. Your work will directly influence how we responsibly manage data for millions of users while enabling innovation across the platform. You Will Design and build scalable privacy infrastructure that enables Roblox to discover, govern, protect, and manage personal data at scale. Develop backend services, APIs, and data pipelines that embed privacy controls into engineering workflows and enable fulfillment of user privacy rights at global 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. As a Senior Security Software Engineer on the IAM team at Roblox, you'll build the next generation of identity and access management — defining how both humans and AI agents get identity, authenticate, and receive access to Roblox's production infrastructure. As AI agents become first-class actors in our systems, you'll design the tooling and policy that governs what they can do, how they prove who they are, and how we keep that access safe at scale. You'll also continue to evolve our workload authentication, privileged access management, and secure "golden path" for developers. Your work will directly shape the security posture of our entire production environment and set the standard for agentic IAM across the industry. You will: Design Identity and Access for AI Agents: You will define how AI agents get credentials, receive scoped permissions, and have their sessions managed throughout their lifecycle — pioneering the patterns for agentic identity in production. Engineer Hybrid Production IAM at Scale: You will design and implement scalable IAM solutions for Roblox's hybrid production environment, spanning on-premises and cloud infrastructure, ensuring secure and efficient access for hum

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. As a Software Engineer on the Communications team, you will work on real-time communication across 2D and 3D spaces for billions of users while keeping interactions civil, safe, and expressive. Communication is at the core of what makes Roblox a vibrant social platform, the systems you build will define how tens of millions of people connect every day. You will work with teams across Game Engine, Safety, and ML Platform, building backend services at scale, data pipelines, and ML models that strengthen the underlying chat and policy infrastructure. You will build and ship detection systems that identify chat violations and continuously evolve to outpace bad actors circumventing our safety policies. As a core contributor to a broader suite of communication products, you will drive feature development while embedding safety into the foundation of the platform. If you are a developer with an understanding of large scale systems and want to shape how the next generation of Roblox users interact safely in the metaverse, you’ll be right at home within our highly-skilled and rapidly growing team. You will: Engineer and scale the communication infrastructure that supports millions of c

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. As a Software Engineer on the User Frameworks team, you will help create the reusable UI components and systems that many Roblox teams rely on to create engaging and intuitive product experiences. You Have: 1–3 years of experience building software systems (industry experience) Strong coding fundamentals in one or more languages such as Javascript, TypeScript, Lua, or similar Experience building frontend systems, reusable UI components, or design systems Familiarity with modern UI frameworks such as React, and an interest in building practical, maintainable abstractions that can scale An understanding of software quality fundamentals such as performance, accessibility, responsiveness, maintainability, and thoughtful API or component design. A growth mindset and curiosity about automation and AI-assisted development You Will: Build and improve reusable UI components, and libraries that many Roblox teams rely on to create consistent, polished, and accessible user experiences Contribute to the Foundation Design System by working closely with design and engineering to define and implement shared building blocks for Roblox Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, while contributing to en

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. As a Software Engineer on the Creator Business team, you will help drive a healthy and ever-growing creator economy at Roblox. Our mission is to help Creators efficiently operationalize their revenue so they can invest in and grow their business. The team works on complex areas such as monetization analytics, revenue reporting, payouts, and taxes, requiring penny-perfect accuracy and zero defects. In this role, you'll build and own the scalable, secure, and reliable platform that lets our creators thrive. You'll work alongside your team, partnering with product and other engineering teams to shape end-to-end requirements and drive projects with real impact and visibility. You'll take meaningful, scoped projects from concept to completion, shape key system design decisions, and have the room to surface improvements and communicate technical decisions with clarity and confidence. You will: Develop remarkable products and systems that will delight our users Work with the product, data science, and design to help refine requirements Contribute to or drive the overall end to end system design Have the opportunity to push the boundaries of what’s next for the company Help recruit future talent fo