Roblox
Distinguished Engineer, Content Platform
$399K–$458K
San Mateo, CA, United States · Principal · Full-time · Posted May 15, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years.
- Education
- BS in Computer Science or related experience is preferred.
- Visa sponsorship
- For US-based roles, the company may be unable to employ candidates whose US work authorization is related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship.
About the job
Leads the technical strategy and engineering of Roblox’s content platform, managing the lifecycle and global-scale infrastructure for assets used across the ecosystem.
What you'll do
- Set the platform’s long-term strategy, architecture, and priorities.
- Lead teams building and operating distributed systems for asset creation, upload, storage, indexing, and delivery.
- Oversee reliability, scalability, efficiency, and cross-functional alignment for a backend service handling over 100 million requests per second.
What they ask for
- 12+ years of experience building high-impact, consumer-facing applications at scale.
- Deep expertise in backend engineering, distributed systems, and large-scale infrastructure.
- Experience delivering high-performance, reliable platforms in high-traffic production environments.
- Strong experience working with cross-functional teams.
Nice to have
- BS in Computer Science or related experience.
Pay
$399,420 — $457,970 USD annual base salary
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