Senior Software Engineer, Sharing (Backend)
Roblox · San Mateo, CA, United States
About this 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 Sharing team, you will build the foundation that powers how millions of users capture, share, and discover content on Roblox. You will work across the stack to deliver high-performance experiences, from client-side user flows to the backend systems that serve billions of contents each day.
You will partner closely with product and other engineering teams to define architecture, improve reliability, and drive measurable impact on engagement and content growth. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive on building scalable, developer facing and user-facing products that blend technical depth with creative impact.
You Will:
- Design and build engaging, high-performance content creation/sharing and consumption experiences across Roblox Platform.
- Own projects end to end, from design and architecture to launch and iteration, driving measurable impact on user engagement and content quality.
- Collaborate with engineers across product, safety, and infrastructure teams to define best practices and align on scalable solutions.
- Identify gaps in performance, testing, and experimentation workflows, and lead improvements that make the team more effective and efficient.
- Uphold high standards of technical quality and user experience while rapidly iterating on new features.
- Contribute to a strong, inclusive team culture by helping refine processes, mentoring peers, and supporting each other’s success.
- Help recruit and grow future talent who share our passion for building the next generation of content ecosystem on Roblox.
You Have:
- 5+ years of experience building scalable backend systems in C++, C#, Java, or similar languages.
- Strong experience working on consumer-facing products at scale.
- Experience partnering closely with product managers and data teams to ship measurable impact.
- Experience building scalable APIs, distributed services, and asynchronous workflows.
- Strong product intuition — you think in terms of user experience, tradeoffs, and measurable outcomes, as well as system design.
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
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.
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.
About Roblox
Be part of an amazing team that’s building the world’s largest social platform for play. Every month, over 100 million players come to Roblox to immerse themselves in any game or experience imaginable. Players can create the ultimate theme park, compete as a professional race car driver, star in a fashion show, become a superhero, or simply build a dream home and hang out with friends. Our Mission: to become the global leader in user-generated gaming and creation for all ages. Our Products: The Roblox Imagination Platform™ is a vibrant ecosystem of creators, builders, game players, and adventurers imagining with their friends. Our Roblox Studio IDE allows powerful and intuitive creation, published with a single click to the cloud, and instantly playable with your friends across PC, Mac, iOS, Android, Xbox and Oculus Rift. Integrated matchmaking, persistence, and billing support provide developers rich functionality for building great games and experiences. The Roblox.com website ties this ecosystem together with search and discovery, social networking, and a massive catalog of user made content. Check out our latest news at blog.roblox.com !
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