Senior Software Engineer Creator Translation

2 Months ago • 3 Years + • Localization • $222,910 PA - $289,460 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Roblox is seeking a Senior / Principal Software Engineer for its Creator Service Translation team. This role involves designing and building highly scalable systems for localization, including text, images, and audio. You will expand language families, support real-time localization, enrich translation media types, and improve translation quality. The position requires tackling full-stack problems, owning product areas, collaborating with product and design teams, and responding to community feedback. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of experience in backend systems, proficiency in languages like C#, C++, Go, or Python, and a passion for new technologies.
Must have:
  • 3+ years of experience in backend systems
  • Designed and led implementation of scalable distributed systems
  • Hands-on experience in microservices
  • Proficient in C#, C++, Go, or Python
  • Strong teamwork and cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Long-term mindset for system design
Good to have:
  • Deep understanding of C++
  • Familiarity with game engines
  • Familiarity with machine learning
Perks:
  • Equity compensation
  • Benefits

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.

The Creator Service Translation team is the heartbeat behind our worldwide gaming experiences. We own a broad spectrum of localization sources including text, images, audio, etc, as well as the full localization pipeline for content detection, translation, serving and rendering. As a Senior / Principal Software Engineer, you will design and build highly scalable systems to help creators to continuously deliver experiences that feel native and seamless. You will help us to expand the language families and locales, support real-time localization, enrich translation media types, and improve the translation quality to be industry-leading for Roblox.

Join us if you thrive on cross‑functional collaboration, care about the craft of language, and want to shape how millions of players experience our worlds, and everywhere in between.

You Will:

  • Tackle and solve challenging full-stack problems that touch the client, game engine, backend services and machine learning models.
  • Own product areas and projects from technical design, execution, launch, and quick iteration based on feedback.
  • Work closely with product, design, and partner teams to maintain high execution quality and pace.
  • Proactively gather community feedback and respond swiftly to their needs, ensuring our products evolve to deliver exceptional value.

You Have:

  • Experience: You have 3+ years of experience and you’ve designed and led implementation on highly scalable and reliable distributed backend systems. You have hands-on experience in microservices.
  • Knowledge: You are proficient in one or more programming languages (C#, C++, Go, Python or similar programming language). Deep understanding of C++ is a plus, familiarity with game engine is a plus, familiarity with machine learning is a plus.
  • Curiosity: You are curious and passionate about industry trends and new technologies, you are able to apply them to practical problems innovatively.
  • Strong Teamwork: You are able to drive cross-functional projects and collaborate with teams to deliver the most curated technical solution.
  • Long-term Mindset: You are willing to take the long-term to build the system, and your design choices and technical solutions are usually still optimal multiple years into the future.

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
$222,910$289,460 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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