Principal Software Engineer - Sharing

2 Months ago • 8 Years + • Software Development & Engineering • $289,460 PA - $338,270 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Roblox is seeking a Principal Frontend Software Engineer for its Sharing team. This role will lead engineering efforts to enhance how users share experiences on and off the Roblox platform. Responsibilities include designing and building products and systems to facilitate user invitations, fostering community and engagement. You will leverage the Roblox game engine to create innovative sharing capabilities that empower developers to build viral experiences. The goal is to reach broader audiences, fuel developer growth, and amplify user connections. You will own critical sharing features used daily by millions and pioneer new features to drive user engagement and platform growth. The ideal candidate is proactive, a leader, scrappy, a product owner, and data-driven. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, design scalable APIs, develop product features, lead experiments, support production systems, write high-quality code, drive system improvements, and mentor engineers.
Must have:
  • 8+ years experience in large-scale distributed systems
  • Proficiency in C++
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
  • Proactive and takes initiative
  • Leadership in technical decision-making
  • Adaptable to various tech stacks
  • Data-driven decision making
Good to have:
  • Experience with social products
  • Experience with game development in Lua
Perks:
  • Equity compensation
  • Benefits package

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.

As a Principal Frontend Software Engineer on Roblox’s Sharing team, you'll lead engineering efforts that fuel Roblox’s growth by making it easier for users to share experiences both on and off the platform. You’ll design and build products and systems that enable millions of users to seamlessly invite their friends into Roblox experiences, fostering community and engagement at scale. Leveraging the Roblox game engine and development tools, you'll help create innovative sharing capabilities that empower developers to build groundbreaking, delightful, and viral experiences. Your work will directly support our developer community in reaching broader audiences, fueling their growth and amplifying user connections across the Roblox ecosystem. You will own critical sharing features used daily by millions and will pioneer new zero-to-one features that further drive user engagement and platform growth. With millions of daily active users (and rapidly growing), we're looking for an experienced engineer who is passionate about designing and delivering world-class user experiences.

You Are:

  • Proactive: You operate with a sense of urgency, initiating conversations and workflow that pushes team projects and people forward
  • A Leader: You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical decisions across multiple teams and organizations.
  • Scrappy: You are willing to dive into any tech stack to solve problems, and can easily adapt to any situation when the need arises and come up with the right solution.
  • A product owner: You champion for changes that align with the needs of our users and developers
  • Data‑Driven: You base decisions on clear metrics and rigorous experimentation, continually measuring impact so the team stays focused on the highest‑value outcomes.

You will:

  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, Data Science) to deliver user-facing features impacting millions of daily active users on Roblox. 
  • Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure APIs and interfaces used by millions of developers. 
  • Develop innovative product features enabling users and developers to invite others onto the platform for shared, enjoyable experiences.
  • Lead experiments to test product hypotheses and leverage results for data-driven decision-making. 
  • Support production systems through shared on-call rotations, ensuring high reliability and rapid incident response.
  • Write and maintain high-quality, performant code; continuously refactor and enhance the existing codebase. 
  • Drive improvements in system reliability, performance optimization, and comprehensive test coverage. 
  • Raise the quality bar, delivering user experiences that surpass previous platform standards. Lead the architecture and implementation of scalable end-to-end systems serving hundreds of millions of users and developers. 
  • Mentor and grow engineers, continuously elevating team capability and technical standards.

You Have:

  • 8+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting highly available and large-scale distributed fault tolerant services in production environments 
  • Proficiency in C++ (preferred)
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field. 
  • (Bonus) Experience with social products and game development in lua.

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.

Annual Salary Range
$289,460$338,270 USD

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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