Senior Backend Engineer, Creator Content | Roblox San Mateo

The Creator Content Team provides a secure, scalable, and extensible foundation for ingesting, processing, storing, managing, and serving user content. As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend, Distributed Systems), you will design and build backend services that help game creators reach the broadest possible audience. You will help build and scale large distributed systems, data processing and analysis pipelines, an access control system, and Open Cloud APIs, all central to content created on Roblox.

Key Responsibilities

• Solve a variety of unique technical challenges
• Design, build, test, and deploy services within the Roblox ecosystem, with independence and end-to-end responsibility
• Guide the team’s future technical direction and influence engineering
• Act as a technical bar-raiser for code quality, architectural designs, and long-term approaches
• Mentor and develop fellow engineers
• Design scalable, resilient systems and services
• Collaborate across functions with engineers, product managers, and other Roblox team members

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience working on scalable, reliable backend and distributed systems
• Experience architecting, designing, and leading the implementation of mission-critical applications at scale
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (C#, Go, Java, C++, Python, or similar)
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science or a related engineering field (a Master’s is a plus)
• A creative, strategic approach to hard problems, with a vision for what makes a product great
• A team-oriented mindset, with willingness to collaborate and share knowledge

Skills

Technical Skills

• Backend and distributed systems
• C#, Go, Java, C++, or Python
• Data processing and analysis pipelines
• Access control systems and Open Cloud APIs
• Scalable, resilient system design

Soft Skills

• Creativity and strategic thinking
• Mentoring and knowledge sharing
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Technical leadership

Nice to Have

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field

Benefits

• Equity compensation for all full-time employees
• Benefits for full-time employees, with details on Roblox’s careers page