Roblox

Senior/Principal Software Engineer - Creator Data

$345K–$399K

San Mateo, CA, United States · Principal · Full-time · Posted Mar 24, 2026

Experience: 10+ years software development and production-grade code; 3+ years building and maintaining data storage systems; 6+ years programming in C# and/or C++; 6+ years on agile teams; 4+ years leading junior engineers and new graduates.
Visa sponsorship: For US-based roles, the company may not be able 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

Leads development of scalable data storage systems, cloud services, observability tools, and creator-facing dashboards for Roblox experiences.

Design and build cloud services and data storage systems, including infrastructure, serving layers, clients, and web APIs.
Expand observability through metrics, data pipelines, analytics, visualizations, and dashboards; support creators and respond to production incidents.
Mentor engineers and lead cross-functional and company-wide technical initiatives.

10+ years building with public clouds (AWS, Azure, and GCP), microservices, and distributed systems.
3+ years building and maintaining data storage systems.
10+ years designing, implementing, testing, and deploying robust, scalable, production-grade code.
6+ years programming in C# and/or C++; 6+ years on agile software teams; 4+ years leading junior engineers and new graduates.

Experience with big data pipelines or batch processing systems, such as MapReduce, Hadoop, Flink, Spark, or Flume.
Experience with Lua/Luau, data science, analytics, machine learning or AI, or GUI/dashboard/web front-end development.

$345,040 — $399,420 USD (base salary)

AWS, Azure, GCP, C#, C++, MapReduce, Hadoop, Flink

The team supports new services built around compute and generative AI; AI or machine learning knowledge is a preferred qualification.

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