Principal Software Engineer, Payments
Job Summary
Job Description
- 8+ years of backend software engineering experience
- Proficiency in designing, building, and maintaining scalable systems
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills in distributed systems
- Experience managing projects and mentoring junior engineers
- Strong collaboration skills across teams
- Bachelor's degree in CS, CE, or equivalent experience
- Experience in the payments domain
- Experience working in frontend/mobile
4 skills required
Job Details
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.
Join the Roblox Payments Foundation team and build the bridge between the real-world global economy and Roblox's vibrant virtual economy. Our mission is to empower every Roblox user with an accessible, secure, and reliable payment experience that enriches their experience.
This team owns the critical payments integration across every platform Roblox supports, processing millions of transactions daily. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will design, build, and scale these essential systems. You'll collaborate with a talented team dedicated to engineering excellence and tackling complex challenges at scale.
You will:
- Work closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, finance, and other engineering teams to define requirements, build solutions, and deliver features impacting the core Roblox economy.
- Architect, design, implement, and maintain highly scalable and reliable services and components for processing millions of daily global payment transactions.
- Proactively identify and address challenges related to system performance, security, scalability, and fault tolerance for mission-critical systems.
- Develop and manage integrations with various third-party payment providers, and internal Roblox systems.
- Ensure payment solutions function seamlessly and securely across all platforms where Roblox is available (web, mobile, console, etc.).
- Uphold high standards for code quality, test coverage, and maintainability, fostering the culture of engineering excellence.
You have:
- 8+ years of backend software engineering experience, demonstrating proficiency in designing, building, and maintaining robust and scalable systems (e.g., microservices, APIs).
- Strong problem-solving skills and experience debugging complex issues in distributed systems.
- Experience in managing projects and small teams, planning and delegating work across different workstreams.
- Strong collaboration skills, ability to work across teams and organizations, mentoring and guiding junior engineers.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience or strong interest in the payments domain is highly desirable.
- Experience working in frontend/mobile is a plus.
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 our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office 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 for all candidates during the interview process.
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