Sr. Software Engineer - CI/CD & Developer Tools | Roblox

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Engineering Acceleration Foundations team, you will deliver a world-class development experience to over 2,000+ Roblox engineers writing, building, and shipping the platform. In this high-impact position, you will help transform developer tools into a fully scaled, globally mature, AI-native platform. You will build and scale the internal developer infrastructure—spanning source control, code search, artifact distribution, reusable CI/CD workflows, local/remote development tooling, and productivity metrics toolchains that shape daily engineering workflows across the entire company.

Key Responsibilities

Developer Experience & Internal Tooling Architecture

• Development Lifecycle Redefinition: Support, scale, secure, and evolve Roblox's development cycle, including source control systems, code search engines, artifact creation/distribution, and remote development infrastructure.
• Developer Productivity Tooling: Build internal web applications, local development CLI tools, microservices, and productivity metric toolchains that optimize daily workflows for 2,000+ engineers.
• CI/CD & Integration Pipelines: Create reusable CI workflows, optimize build systems, and integrate 1st-party and 3rd-party developer tools into a unified platform.
• Cross-Engineering Collaboration: Partner across engineering organizations to continuously measure, refine, and improve the user experience and developer velocity across Roblox's codebase.

Requirements

Technical Foundations & Developer Tooling Depth

• Experience Track: 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Education: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Scale Impact: Track record of participating in the end-to-end development, launch, and support of developer tools or infrastructure used by hundreds of engineers.
• Developer Tooling Ecosystem: Strong working knowledge of source control, artifact management, and CI/CD tools (hands-on experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, and Artifactory is a strong plus).
• Cloud & Orchestration Technologies: Experience working with public cloud infrastructure and container orchestration systems (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes) and HashiCorp tools (Terraform, Vault).
• Programming Proficiency: Fluency in at least one common backend or scripting language (Python, Go, or C#).
• Mindset & Collaboration: Customer-focused mindset with exceptional communication and cross-team collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience developing AI-native developer tooling or copilot workflows.
• Direct experience optimizing enterprise-scale monorepos, build caches, or remote execution environments.

Total Rewards & Benefits

• Compensation & Equity: San Mateo base salary range ($196,750 – $243,290 USD) + competitive Roblox equity compensation.
• Healthcare & Wellbeing: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance packages for employees and eligible dependents.
• Onsite Perks & Campus: Modern San Mateo headquarters featuring daily catered meals, team events, and state-of-the-art technical setups.
• Time Off & Retirement: Generous vacation policies, paid company holidays, paid parental leave, and 401(k) matching programs.