Principal Software Engineer Studio
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Job Location:
San Mateo, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
23-10-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Are you passionate about building the tools that empower millions of creators Do you thrive on the challenge of creating a unified and powerful development experience
The Creator Studio pod at Roblox is seeking a leader to help us build the future of our internal and external developer ecosystem and be responsible for the success of experienced developers. You will build solutions that benefit both ultimately uniting our toolchains and delivering wins and features to create a best-in-class development experience. If you thrive off building systems like package managers linters providing a first-class end-to-end debugging experience and diving into low levels of our game engine to create powerful developer APIs this role is for you.
You will:
- Help drive the technical strategy of delivering a first-class developer experience for internal and external creators
- Plan and deliver complex technical features E2E in our game engine and in the Studio UI that will allow internal engineers and external creators to grow in our community
- Extend our architecture to enable new internal use cases to be built on technology our creators use today
- Work cross functionally across teams and technology platforms to deliver high quality and amazing user functionality
- Lead by example and mentor engineers to implement technological best practices patterns and strategiesImprove the product quality by fostering automation testing
- Participate in building the worlds best professional application for massively multiplayer game development
You have:
- Experience: you have at least 10 years experience and youve worked on deep and challenging problems with large-scale systems such as game engines along with experience in C codebases.
- A degree in Computer Science or have equivalent practical experience.
- Built systems responsibly in a way that ensures they work reliably.
You are:
- You are rigorous in handling potential failure cases and diligent in automated testing
- Curious: you want to learn and stay up-to-date on technology developments
- Collaborative: you have excellent communication skills and follow-through and enjoy mentoring others
- Familiar with file storage systems or network protocols (Bonus)
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Python
- System Design
- Agile
- C/C++
- Go
- Systems Engineering
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Roblox is the ultimate virtual universe that lets you create, share experiences with friends, and be anything you can imagine. Join millions of people and discover an infinite variety of immersive experiences created by a global community!
