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.
Every day, thousands of configuration changes are made by service owners across Roblox. This is a critical function enabling millions of players worldwide to play, learn, work and socialize on Roblox. Join the Engineering Efficiency - Configuration team at Roblox and contribute to our mission of providing an exceptional development experience. As a Senior Software Engineer, your work will play a crucial role in transforming our development process and enabling global growth with sophisticated technology.
You Will- Unify and Integrate Systems: Integrate multiple high-performance frontends and backends into a cohesive, scalable and secure next-gen configuration system that supports millions of requests per second. Also integrate configuration management seamlessly into the CI/CD pipeline.
- Accelerate configuration management with AI: Enable seamless configuration upgrades, management, and automation through the application of AI Agents
- Ensure safety and reliability: Configuration changes can be error prone and difficult, build robust systems to automate these processes and ensure safe changes at scale.
- Enhance and Support: Own and refine existing configuration systems, handle on-call support as needed, and proactively introduce new features and bug fixes to improve stability and performance.
- Improve Runtime Configurations: Build and enforce language-specific libraries and standard processes to optimize runtime configurations across our platform, encouraging consistency and efficiency.
- Drive Innovation: Continuously explore new technologies, tools, and frameworks to keep our configuration systems at the forefront of efficiency, scalability, and reliability.
- Champion Best Practices: Advocate for high standards in code quality, security, and system design, fostering a culture that values innovation, resilience, and long-term impact.
You Have:- Experience in back-end work, with strong proficiency in backend technologies like C# and Golang.
- Familiarity with the whole development lifecycle, including concept, deployment, and use of infrastructure, configuration, and CI/CD tools to improve efficiency and prioritize security.
- Experience with JavaScript frameworks on the front end is a plus.
- Experience with Kubernetes or Hashistack is a plus.
You Are:- A Backend Engineer who excels at crafting, building, and delivering secure software that makes a tangible impact.
- Known for writing clean, resilient code and maintaining a keen eye for simplicity, efficiency, and scalability in every solution.
- Motivated to tackle fresh challenges, consistently expanding knowledge and exploring tools, frameworks, and standard processes to remain at the forefront.
- You excel in multi-functional teams, communicate optimally, and prioritize the user experience in all features and functionality you develop.
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
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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.
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