Principal Software Engineer, Connections

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 were 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. Were 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 youll 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.

Why Connections

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Connections team your work will power the Roblox ecosystem helping people recognize and connect with friends & interests on Roblox express themselves and discover & engage with the best of Roblox through their connections. You will own critical features used by millions of users daily including profiles names online presence co-play tools and social proof while also developing new zero-to-one features.

If you are an experienced developer who loves to write code ship user-facing features mentor engineers up-level frontend development and drive product vision youll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on this team.

This role is based at Roblox HQ in San Mateo CA (no remote option).

You Will:

• Design build and ship features that power the social graph for millions of users
• Architect scalable long-term solutions
• Collaborate with teams across the company to translate ambitious business goals into a concrete multi-year technical roadmap
• Serve as a technical leader setting engineering standards and mentoring other engineers

You Have:

• 8 years of experience in software development with web or app technologies (React TypeScript JavaScript)
• Proven track record building and launching complex consumer-facing features
• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field.

You Are:

• Proactive: You operate with urgency initiating conversations and driving projects forwardScrappy: You are willing to dive into any part of the tech stack (like backend or data infrastructure) to solve problems and adapt quickly to new challengesA Product owner: You champion for changes that align with the needs of our users
• Innovative: You design creative long-term solutions that are built to scale
• Team-oriented: You value collaboration respect diverse perspectives and confidently advocate for the right technical path