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A leading technology company in San Mateo, CA seeks an experienced Software Engineer to work on building and evolving a critical infrastructure for managing compute workloads. The ideal candidate will have over 6 years of experience, strong skills in Kubernetes, and proficiency in Go. This role offers a base pay range of $222,910 to $289,460 USD annually and promotes a collaborative work environment with a focus on observability and system reliability.

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 Matchmaking team's mission is to: Provide the best player experience by choosing the best game possible Handle game orchestration by ensuring performance across Roblox worldwide data centers As a Senior Software Engineer with the Matchmaking team, you'll have the opportunity to build and own end-to-end mission-critical services within the Roblox ecosystem. Here are a few quick highlights of how we impact Roblox: Matchmaking Decisions - Selecting the best game server possible for every play request is a o(n ) problem. The system supports several millions of concurrent players. The game orchestration system handles games spread across data centers distributed all over the world, which are growing to support Roblox' terrific growth. You Will: Work on experimentation, data-driven projects and partner with data teammates to achieve the best player experience possible. You'll also work on the Matchmaking algorithm system to improve the quality of the matchmaking decision. Help create the next generation of the Matchmaking system, built to support up to 1B monthly active users. You Have: Experience architecting, designing, and developing a wide-array of software products. Experience building available distributed systems, and are familiar with NoSQL/NewSQL systems. Knowledge of REST, API design patterns, and scalable containerized systems and microservices. Knowledge of systems engineering is a plus. A Computer-Science graduate or MS graduate. 4+ years of experience. For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page . Annual Salary Range $192,890 - $238,520 USD Roles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted). Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations for all candidates during the interview process.

A leading gaming platform is seeking a Principal Engineer to join their Engine Networking Team. You will lead engineers to enhance real-time communication for millions of users and solve complex technical challenges. This role demands extensive experience in C++ programming and systems-level optimization within multi-player game engines. The position is based in San Mateo, CA, with a competitive compensation package, including an annual salary range of $293,800 - $343,340 USD.

Overview 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 Principal Engineer on this team you will help the players experience the game as a nearly synchronous world. The networking and asset loading team plays a key role in 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 Will Lead engineers with 8+ years of industry experience Understand the game networking with a passion for working with open source Be experienced with asset loading, rendering, and networking coming from a Game Engine/Studio. (Desirable) Be an amazing systems-level C++ programmer and be fascinated by the actual work the CPU does when you use smart pointers, templates, virtual functions, and blocks of memory, both structured and raw Have a keen to each millisecond of the network exchanges: You know where the time goes and how to reduce the waste Understand what happens on the operating system level when certain code is completed You Have Worked on the guts of a multi-player game engine, 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 the devices Roblox supports - from desktop clients to mobile phone clients to console clients Compensation and Benefits For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page. Annual Salary Range $293,800 - $343,340 USD Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted). Equal Employment Opportunity Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

A leading online gaming platform based in San Mateo, CA, is seeking a Principal Engineer for their Engine Networking Team. You will lead a team to optimize real-time communication and improve the overall player experience in a multi-player game environment. The ideal candidate has extensive C++ development experience and a deep understanding of networking and performance optimization in distributed systems. This role includes a competitive annual salary of $289,460 - $338,270 USD and offers equity compensation.

A leading game and social platform is hiring a seasoned Data Scientist to enhance safety measures against harmful content. The ideal candidate will utilize extensive experience in data science and analytics to develop effective methodologies for content moderation. The position is based in San Mateo, with a competitive salary range of $316,480 - $366,350 USD, plus equity compensation and benefits.

Senior / Principal Data Scientist, Matchmaking Join to apply for the Senior / Principal Data Scientist, Matchmaking role at Roblox Continue with Google Continue with Google Senior / Principal Data Scientist, Matchmaking Join to apply for the Senior / Principal Data Scientist, Matchmaking role at Roblox 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 DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS? The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency and acumen of making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product verticals, we use this extensive tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products and measure impact on our community of players and developers. WHY MATCHMAKING? Every day, millions of players explore immersive worlds created by our global community. Our mission is to optimize these connections at an unprecedented scale - matching each player to the most engaging experience, in real time, across a dynamic global ecosystem. As a Senior/Principal Data Scientist on the Matchmaking team, you'll help shape the future of how our community discovers, connects, and plays together, solving some of the most challenging optimization and systems problems in the industry. Matchmaking is the foundational system that connects 100 million daily active users to tens of thousands of experiences across our global platform infrastructure. You'll partner with engineers, infrastructure teams, and product leaders to solve some of the most complex optimization problems in the industry. Your work will span from low-level resource allocation algorithms to high-level capacity planning strategies. You will define KPIs and measure the impact of matchmaking improvements while discovering optimization opportunities through advanced analytics, modeling, and experimentation. This role sits at the intersection of cutting-edge operations research, large-scale systems engineering, and user experience optimization. You Will Design and optimize large-scale matching algorithms to connect millions of users with thousands of experiences in real time. Define and track matchmaking performance metrics that directly improve user satisfaction and system efficiency. Build scalable monitoring and analytics systems for continuous evaluation and root cause analysis. Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to implement high-performance, low-latency matchmaking pipelines. Develop and deploy advanced optimization models using state-of-the-art mathematical frameworks and large-scale telemetry data. Validate and iterate on improvements through rigorous experimentation and causal inference. Collaborate with our developer community to create transparent and customizable matchmaking solutions that empower creators. Influence platform strategy and contribute as a technical thought leader to advance Roblox's global ecosystem. You Have Advanced Degree and/or PhD in Operations Research, Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Industrial Engineering, or other related quantitative fields 6+ years of relevant industry experience with marketplace optimization, auction systems, or large-scale matching platforms (e.g., ride-sharing, ad exchanges, trading systems) Strong optimization systems experience including mathematical modeling, solver integration, and production deployment of marketplace or allocation algorithms Demonstrated ability to drive optimization initiatives as an individual contributor and technical thought leader Experience with real-time bidding, dynamic pricing, or resource allocation systems in high-throughput environments Experience collaborating with Infrastructure teams to optimize system performance and resource utilization (a plus) Ability to communicate optimization results and algorithmic insights to influence engineering teams and business stakeholders For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page . Annual Salary Range $316,480-$366,350 USD Roles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted). Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations for all candidates during the interview process.Seniority level Seniority levelMid-Senior level Employment type Employment typeFull-time Job function Job functionEngineering and Information Technology IndustriesSoftware Development Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Roblox by 2x Sign in to set job alerts for "Senior Data Scientist" roles. 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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 Principal Engineer on this team you will help the players experience the game as a nearly synchronous world. The networking and asset loading team plays a key role in 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 Will: Lead engineers with 8+ years of industry experience Understand the game networking with a passion for working with open source Be experienced with asset loading, rendering, and networking coming from a Game Engine/Studio. (Desirable) Be an amazing systems-level C++ programmer and be fascinated by the actual work the CPU does when you use smart pointers, templates, virtual functions, and blocks of memory, both structured and raw Have a keen to each millisecond of the network exchanges: You know where the time goes and how to reduce the waste Understand what happens on the operating system level when certain code is completed You Have: Worked on the guts of a multi-player game engine, 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 the devices Roblox supports - from desktop clients to mobile phone clients to console clients For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page. Annual Salary Range $289,460 - $338,270 USD Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted). Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

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 DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS? The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency and acumen of making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product verticals, we use this extensive tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products and measure impact on our community of players and developers. WHY CONTENT SAFETY? Content safety and moderation are paramount to maintaining a positive, engaging, and trustworthy platform experience for our global community. In this role, you will apply your expertise in data science, statistics, and causal inference to strategically define, measure, and improve the detection and mitigation of harmful user-generated content and violative on-platform behaviors. Your focus will be on asset-based content across the platform - including games, avatars, and emerging in-game behaviors - by establishing reliable ground truth datasets and developing robust prevalence measurement methodologies. You will collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Legal, Policy, and Compliance teams, acting as the quantitative expert who guides our defensive strategy against evolving safety threats and ensures accountability and scalable solutions. This is a critical opportunity to build innovative detection systems, define what we measure, and prove the impact of our safety efforts. You Will: Establish and monitor robust prevalence measurement methodologies to accurately quantify the overall level of harmful content and behavior on the platform, providing the authoritative source of truth for organizational safety goals. Develop and validate comprehensive ground truth datasets for harmful UGC and violative on-platform behaviors, ensuring high quality and alignment with the latest platform policies. Deepen our understanding of violations by conducting exploratory analysis on current and emerging threat landscapes, providing data-backed recommendations on where Product and Engineering should strategically invest detection and moderation resources. Design, implement, and analyze sophisticated experiments for new moderation and safety enforcement features, communicating results to our primary partners in Product and Engineering to guide development, while also collaborating closely with Policy, Compliance, and Legal teams for full strategic alignment. Leverage advanced causal inference methodologies to accurately measure the effectiveness and potential systemic impacts of various safety initiatives on player experience and platform integrity. Communicate strategic insights and present recommendations to leadership and all cross-functional partners, translating complex statistical findings on prevalence, ground truth quality, and effectiveness into actionable strategies for Product, Engineering, Policy, Compliance, and Legal. Partner with ML and Data Engineering teams to ensure model development, reporting, and detection systems are built on statistically sound ground truth and measurement frameworks. You Have: 10+ years of industry experience in data science, economics, analytics, or machine learning engineering 7+ years of experience using scripting languages (Python, R), and big data query/processing languages and tools such as SQL, Hive, Spark, and Airflow Knowledge of ML and Deep Learning either via formal training or industry experience Ability to apply creative first-principles reasoning to solve ambiguous problems Experience developing large-scale safety or moderation systems as well as experience with content platforms, specifically user-generated content Advanced Degree and/or PhD in Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Applied Math, Economics, or other related quantitative fields For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page. Annual Salary Range $316,480 - $366,350 USD Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted). Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

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 DNS team is responsible for one of Roblox's most critical infrastructure systems, operating a global anycast DNS network that serves millions of queries per second for both our internal engineering infrastructure and the external player experience. Every connection to Roblox, whether a player joining their favorite experience or an engineer deploying code, starts with DNS. As a Senior Software Engineer on the DNS team, you'll tackle some of the most challenging problems in distributed systems at massive scale. You'll work on the DNS infrastructure that connects hundreds of millions of players worldwide to Roblox experiences, while also supporting our rapidly growing internal engineering ecosystem. Your work will span the full stack, from optimizing recursive and authoritative DNS performance, to implementing advanced traffic routing strategies, to hardening our systems against DDoS attacks and emerging security threats. You'll lead technical initiatives to scale our infrastructure 10x, improve reliability and observability, and push the boundaries of what's possible with DNS. This is a rare opportunity to work on foundational internet infrastructure where every optimization you make has immediate, measurable impact on the Roblox platform and the millions of people who use it daily. You Will Deliver best-in-class DNS service for Roblox and its community. Enhance and extend our systems with a focus on performance, reliability and security. Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and cross-functional teams to deliver ambitious technical projects. Be a gatekeeper for a high code quality bar, architectural designs, and pragmatic vs. long-term approaches. Uphold our company vision by putting the Roblox community first and exemplifying our values. You Have 5+ years of software engineering experience. Proficiency in languages such as Python, Golang and Rust. Proven expertise in building highly scalable distributed systems. Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and external partners. A passion for solving complex problems and driving technical excellence. For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page. Annual Salary Range $192,890 - $238,520 USD Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted). Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

A leading online gaming platform is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to enhance the development experience. This role involves supporting and scaling their code infrastructure, designing productivity tools, and leading efforts across engineering teams. The ideal candidate will have a BS in Computer Science, 3+ years of experience, and a passion for improving developer productivity with a customer-focused mindset.

Senior Software Engineer, Safety Data / ML Infra Join to apply for the Senior Software Engineer, Safety Data / ML Infra role at Roblox. 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. 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 and proactively work to detect, remove, and prevent problematic content and behavior. We seek to influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build safety products, and measure our impact on the community of users and developers. In doing so, we help keep Roblox safe, civil, and inclusive, fostering positive relationships between people around the world. As a Senior Engineer you will play a key role in advancing large-scale AI systems that strengthen platform safety and integrity. You'll leverage cutting edge large multimodal models to build intelligent tools to curate high quality training and evaluation data to train machine learning models. These systems will continuously refine and enhance model performance, enabling proactive detection and mitigation of safety risks across the platform in real time. In this role, you'll work closely with cross functional teams of engineers, product managers, policy experts, and safety specialists to turn complex safety challenges into scalable, impactful solutions. You'll establish best practices and technical standards that define the next generation of safety AI, ensuring the platform remains secure, inclusive, and resilient. Your contributions will directly empower robust, AI driven moderation and detection systems that foster a safe and positive experience for all users. Responsibilities Design, build, and own critical components of the AI systems that powers safety data needs, with a focus on usability, reliability, scalability, and performance. Implement robust pipelines for curating high quality multimodal datasets used to train and evaluate ML models and human in the loop systems that enable safe and compliant AI. Advance our AI systems infrastructure by developing strong frameworks for data quality, synthetic data generation, and synthetic labeling. Partner with cross functional teams of engineers, product managers, policy experts, and safety specialists to deliver scalable data and AI solutions to power next generation safety systems. Shape and influence the company's data culture and best practices, building foundational systems from scratch and driving impact rapidly. Stay current with emerging technologies and push forward innovation in data and AI to enhance user and platform safety. Qualifications 6+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying large scale machine learning systems in production environments. A graduate degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. Strong communication skills and a collaborative, solution oriented approach to problem solving. Hands on experience with fine tuning VLMs, LLMs, or large multimodal models to improve model quality, safety, and performance is a plus. Ideal Candidate Data & System Oriented: You understand that robust data and systems are the foundation of any production applications, and you design infrastructure for scale, correctness, and reliability. Collaborative: You thrive in cross functional teams, partnering effectively with Product and Engineering to solve complex challenges. Curious & Creative: You enjoy tackling hard problems, exploring new technologies, and driving continuous improvements in both systems and workflows. Impact Driven: You focus on outcomes - prioritizing product impact, reliability, and measurable success over code volume or complexity. For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page. Annual Salary Range: $242,100-$293,800 USD Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted). Seniority level: Mid Senior level Employment type: Full time Job function: Engineering and Information Technology Industries: Software Development Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

A leading gaming platform in San Mateo is looking for a security expert to define and maintain security standards, drive initiatives across various domains, and mentor engineering teams. Successful candidates will have over 9 years of experience and a robust understanding of security frameworks and practices. This role offers competitive salary and a dynamic work environment where collaboration is key.

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 Efficiency 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, you will be deep in the middle of 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 have company wide impact with designs, code, and decisions that fundamentally change how things are done - this is your opportunity! You Will: Support, scale, and redefine Roblox's source code search, storage, review, and CI infrastructure for the next 10 years of growth. Design software to improve 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. Coordinate and lead major efforts improving the productivity and user experience of our Source and CI tools, spanning teams across Roblox engineering and impacting every engineer at the company. Bring AI and other cutting edge tech into the day to day lives of Roblox engineers, revolutionizing their ability to produce better code faster with less toil and reintroducing them to the joy of software engineering. You Have: A BS in Computer Science or equivalent with 3+ years work experience. Owned end to end development, launch, and support of a tool or system used by other developers at scale (2000+ of engineers). Deep knowledge of source control and/or CI tools and infrastructure. GitHub, GitHub Actions, and Artifactory experience are a plus. Experience working with common cloud and hosting technologies, particularly AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Hashistack (Nomad, Vault, Terraform). Fluency in at least one common language (C#, Python, Go, Java). You Are: Passionate about the developer experience, informed by deep technical knowledge, productivity tooling experience, and a customer focused mindset. Experienced working cross functionally at scale, collaborating with teams across a company to bring solutions together. An emerging team leader excited to mentor junior developers and level the team up through your evangelism of best practices and teamwork

Principal Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Ads 1 week ago Be among the first 25 applicants Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features. 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. 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). Mentor and grow a team of machine learning infrastructure engineers, setting strong technical standards and fostering a culture of collaboration and learning. 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. Stay abreast of industry trends in machine learning and infrastructure to ensure the adoption of leading edge technologies and practices. You Have 5+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying large scale machine learning systems in production environments. 3+ years of experience technologically leading ML infrastructure engineers. Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to problem solving. BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page. Annual Salary Range: $293,800-$343,340 USD Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted). Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process. Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Roblox by 2x. Seniority level: Mid Senior level. Employment type: Full time. Job function: Engineering and Information Technology. Industries: Software Development.

Overview 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. Role and Team The Consumer App Foundation team works on core software components and solutions to make Roblox client applications more responsive, stable, and resource efficient on all supported platforms - mobile, desktop, and consoles. As Senior Software Engineer on the team, you will work on improving application performance, size, battery efficiency, and stability. You'll report to the Engineering Manager on the Consumer App Foundation team. Responsibilities Work with numerous teams to define and implement plans to improve performance and stability of Roblox client applications across all supported platforms Identify new opportunities, build roadmaps, scope and drive execution of development projects Investigate performance bottlenecks and partner with other teams on their resolution to make our applications run lightning fast on any device Improve performance telemetry to detect and resolve performance regressions Promote best development and testing practices to maintain stability and performance of the application Qualifications 5+ years of experience working on complex consumer applications for Android, iOS, macOS or Windows Strong expertise in C++, multithreading, and system programming for one or more platforms. Proficiency in performance benchmarking, profiling and optimization Experience with Lua or other scripting languages Compensation and Benefits For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described. Annual Salary Range $192,890 - $238,520 USD Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted). Equal Opportunity Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

A leading digital platform company in San Mateo, CA, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend, Distributed Systems) to design and build scalable backend services. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience, proficiency in one or more programming languages, and the ability to mentor other engineers. This role offers an annual salary range of $238,520 to $289,460 and includes equity compensation and benefits.

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 Core Services team manages the core infrastructure and API stack and builds high throughput microservices that powers . These services need to be fast, reliable and highly scalable as they have a huge impact on the day-to-day experience of every Roblox user. In addition, the team owns shared libraries, infrastructure microservices, and the web infrastructure used by all other Roblox full-stack feature teams. We ship with testable and configurable features that allow for rapid experimentation, data collection, and optimize for performance and user engagement. From serving basic user information to populating content into in-experience. Core Services is integral to the Roblox experience. As a Senior Engineer within the team, you will own the development and management of core infrastructure, API stack, and microservices. These components are essential for supporting a range of services and platforms within Roblox, including our studio environment. Additionally, you will contribute to the development of tooling and frameworks for full-stack teams. You will get the chance to take ownership of high RPS services, contribute to the re-architecture of systems to accommodate our company's growth, and collaborate with a diverse set of teams including Infra and the product teams within Roblox, leading initiatives, and making a significant impact across the company. You will: Report into the Core Services Organization. Build, maintain, and scale systems to support our goal of 1 billion active users. Design, develop and test Kubernetes controllers using Go. Build and establish core infrastructure accessible to all Roblox teams. Enforce high code quality standards, architectural designs, and long-term approaches as a gatekeeper. You have: 3-5 years of experience building web services using Golang or similar language. Experience building and operating K8's clusters. Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals (control plane, reconciliation loops, scheduling, networking). Experience building large scale distributed systems with focus on scalability, reliability, and availability. Experience building or operating control-plane or orchestration systems (e.g., schedulers, workflow engines, or compute platforms). Strong knowledge of distributed systems fundamentals such as leader election, event-driven architectures, messaging/queuing, or distributed state management. Experience designing systems that handle multi-region orchestration, failover, disaster recovery, or large-scale reliability challenges. Experience with Oncall and in troubleshooting live site issues. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience. Experience writing Kubernetes Operators or custom controllers using Operator-SDK or control runtime (a plus). For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page. Annual Salary Range $192,890 - $238,520 USD Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted). Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.