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Senior Software Engineer - Core Services
Senior Software Engineer - Core Services-November 2024
San Mateo
Nov 16, 2025
About Senior Software Engineer - Core Services

  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.

  What is the Core Services team?

  The Core Services Team manages the main infrastructure and API stack that powers https://www.roblox.com. The team owns shared libraries, infrastructure micro-services, and the JavaScript frameworks used by all other Roblox full-stack feature teams. We work together to ship daily with testable and configurable features that allow for rapid experimentation, data collection, and optimize for performance and user engagement. You will join a team working on diverse problems. We look forward to working with you!

  Here are a few quick highlights of how we power Roblox:

  Microservices - we manage 50+ microservices, the most of any Roblox full-stack engineering team. Most of these services handle access to production databases to return user's related data to the rest of Roblox architecture. These services are crucial to run Roblox. They sit right at the heart of the connection between product, and infrastructure. API Scale - we run services that hit 500K - 3M RPS, the highest load of any Roblox full-stack engineering team. Scalability and reliability of these services is an important to keep the product alive. Thumbnails - our system generates 20,000 - 50,000 thumbnails at peak. Perfect for viewing all your avatar clothing options! Roblox website - overseeing the production machines behind running the website while re-architecting it is a real interesting architectural challenge. You will: Lead implementing features in our backend server and API stack that power https://www.roblox.com and mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Amazon platforms. Build new micro-services in a collaborative modern development process. Write code in a diverse ecosystem. Build the Metaverse. Report into the Core Services organization. You have: 5+ Years of experience and are knowledgable with REST, API design patterns, and scalable containerized systems and micro-services. Shipped multiple products / versions of products. Interested in architecting and designing a wide-array of software products. Experience building large distributed systems and scalability. 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.

  Annual Salary Range

  $218,540—$283,780 USD

  You’ll Love: 

  Industry-leading compensation package Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage A rewarding 401k program Flexible vacation policy Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy  Roblox Admin badge for your avatar At Roblox HQ:  Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit Annual CalTrain Go Pass 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. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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