Roblox
Principal Software Engineer, Engineering Acceleration
$295K–$345K
San Mateo, CA, United States · Principal · Full-time · Posted Jun 10, 2026
- Experience
- 9+ years; a significant portion in developer productivity, build infrastructure, or internal developer platform systems at scale.
- Visa sponsorship
- For US-based roles, the company may be unable to employ candidates with work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
About the job
Defines and leads the long-term technical direction for Roblox’s source code, developer tools, code review, and CI systems, including integrating AI into engineering workflows.
What you'll do
- Own the long-term vision for source code search, storage, review, and CI infrastructure.
- Architect and improve developer tools, internal applications, CI workflows, productivity metrics, and integrations.
- Lead company-wide productivity initiatives and define how AI supports engineers’ daily work.
What they ask for
- 9+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience owning developer productivity, build infrastructure, or internal developer platform systems at scale.
- Owned end-to-end design, launch, and long-term evolution of tools or systems used by developers at scale (2000+ engineers).
- Deep knowledge of source control and/or CI tools and infrastructure.
- Experience with common cloud and hosting technologies; fluency in at least one of C#, Python, Go, or Java.
Nice to have
- GitHub, GitHub Actions, and Artifactory experience.
Pay
$295,250 — $345,040 USD (base salary; annual salary range)
Tools
GitHub, GitHub Actions, Artifactory, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Hashistack (Nomad, Vault, Terraform), C#, Python, Go, Java
AI focus
Define how AI and other cutting-edge technology improve engineers’ daily work, helping them produce better code faster with less toil.
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