Principal Software Engineer: Creator Services Platform

The Creator Services Platform team is responsible for the public web, HTTP API surface of Roblox. We provide the basis for community developers to automate and build upon our platform. To achieve this, we operate the internal systems for product teams at Roblox to expose their APIs, authorize access to them, publish docs, and communicate with users. As a Principal Software Engineer, you would be reporting to the Sr. Engineering Manager of Creator Services.

We’re solving the challenge of building a great API for the whole of Roblox while balancing interesting tradeoffs on stability vs. availability.

You Will:

• Architect the future of our systems - authorization, documentation, client bindings, automatic smoke testing
• Care deeply about building a quality product - by engineers, for engineers.
• Prefer to ship incrementally, talk to creators, and make positive contributions you can be proud of every week, month and quarter.
• Mentor and grow a team of several engineers, leading by example. There is opportunity for this role to pivot to the engineering management career track.
• Have the opportunity to contribute to the broader company mission goals by accelerating creation tasks

You Have:

• Experience: 8+ years of experience in building complex, cross-team systems that impact millions of users' lives. 2+ years of experience in a ‘tech lead’ role as an independent contributor.
• Experience understanding and shaping the goals for any feature you build - ultimately generating value for yourself and Roblox as a Builder.
• No fear of jumping into unfamiliar codebases and areas to get stuff done and achieve product goals.
• Empathy: Your team and peers look forward to working with you. Juniors look up to you as an inspiration. You articulate your technical decisions without ego, aiming to build the best thing and sometimes learn yourself.
• Drive: When you commit to a project, you are constantly seeking opportunities to make it successful. Other people on the project rally around your focus. You become the domain expert and are perpetually seeking ways to hone your craft.
• Familiarity with authentication, authorization, IAM (identity and access management) etc.
• A strong grasp of HTTP fundamentals
• A solid understanding of web security - e.g. CORS, CSP, same origin policy, OWASP top 10, etc.