Senior Software Engineer, Compute

Roblox

San Mateo, California, United StatesFull-time$196,750–$243,290Posted Oct 21, 2026

About the role

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.

As a senior software engineer on the Cell Platform team at Roblox, you will build systems that Roblox engineers use to create and deploy resources onto Kubernetes. Our engineers deploy their services in a complex, hybrid, multiple-cluster, K8s environment. The Cell Platform manages this complexity for our users, with tools, APIs, K8s controllers, and UX, simplifying infrastructure for our internal customers.

You Have:

A desire to work on critical, large-scale distributed systems

An appreciation of observability and instrumentation and tooling to make your life easier

3+ years of experience as software engineer

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or an equivalent field

You will:

Build our Roblox-wide control plane using Kubernetes primitives (and plenty of custom resources)

Work on the interface of the few hundred person infrastructure organization to the thousands of Roblox engineers

Write and review high quality code and tests (largely Golang)

Work on a team that cares about inclusivity and shipping

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 as described on this page.

Annual Salary Range

$196,750—$243,290 USD

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

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. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.

Responsibilities

  • Build Roblox-wide control plane systems using Kubernetes primitives and custom resources
  • Develop tools, APIs, controllers, and user experiences that simplify infrastructure for internal engineers
  • Write and review high-quality code and tests, largely in Golang

Qualifications

  • At least 3 years of experience as a software engineer
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or an equivalent field
  • Interest in critical, large-scale distributed systems
  • Appreciation for observability, instrumentation, and developer tooling

Benefits

  • Equity compensation
  • Employee benefits

Skills mentioned

GoKubernetesDistributed SystemsSystem DesignDevOpsContainerizationCloud ComputingBackend DevelopmentSoftware TestingOpenTelemetry

About Roblox

Roblox's vision is to reimagine the way people come together. Our mission is to connect a billion people with optimism and civility. What is Roblox? Roblox is a platform where people come together virtually to share experiences. Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to Roblox to learn, work, play, connect, communicate, and socialize in immersive digital experiences all built by a global community of creators. Powered by Creators Roblox is powered by a global community of millions of developers and creators who produce their own immersive multiplayer experiences each month using Roblox Studio, our intuitive desktop design tool. Any experience imaginable can be created on Roblox. How Popular? Roblox is ranked as one of the top entertainment platforms for audiences under the age of 18 based on average monthly visits and time spent (Comscore). Our popularity is driven purely by the community with millions of people signing up through word of mouth every month.

Software Development1,001-5,000 employeesSan Mateo, California

H-1B sponsorship history

Historical employer filing data was found for Roblox. The employer record includes 845 historical certified applications. This is employer-level history, not a guarantee that this role currently offers sponsorship.