Roblox
Senior Software Engineer - Economy Platform (Product Dynamics)
$197K–$243K
San Mateo, CA, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years of professional software development experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- For US-based roles, the company may be unable to employ candidates whose U.S. work authorization relates to certain visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
About the job
Build and operate backend systems and reusable tools that enable Roblox teams to launch and evolve virtual economy features across product areas.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable distributed services for economy features, and own their reliability, SLOs, and performance.
- Build shared platform components and self-service tooling, while partnering with product teams to deliver features and technical contracts.
- Troubleshoot production issues, review designs and code, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of professional software development experience focused on distributed systems and product-facing backend services with measurable impact.
- Proficiency in one or more of C#, Go, Rust, Java, C++, or Python.
- Practical experience with Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, Terraform, or Helm.
- Experience with message queues and distributed data stores, and service observability or SLO ownership.
Nice to have
- Experience applying distributed systems concepts to transactional systems such as payments, commerce, or virtual economies.
- Familiarity with Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, or the ELK stack.
Pay
$196,750 — $243,290 USD annual base salary
Tools
C#, Go, Rust, Java, C++, Python, Docker, Kubernetes
AI focus
Embrace AI-assisted and agentic development workflows; the team enables product teams to self-serve through agentic workflows.
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