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Engineering Manager, Observability Infrastructure
Software Engineering
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 Observability team builds the infrastructure that empowers engineers to understand, operate, and improve the Roblox platform and ecosystem. Our team owns the end-to-end observability stack across telemetry, distributed tracing, logging, profiling, storage systems, and developer-facing visualization tools. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the next generation of AI-powered observability platforms. In this role, you will help build intelligent systems that leverage AI to revolutionize CI/CD, testing, and DevOps workflows — enabling engineers to move faster, improve reliability, and operate large-scale distributed systems with greater efficiency and confidence. This is a highly impactful leadership role at the center of Roblox infrastructure. Your work will directly improve developer productivity, platform reliability, and operational excellence across the company. You will partner closely with infrastructure, product engineering, and AI platform teams to shape the future of developer tooling and autonomous operations at scale. You Have 3+ years of engineering management experience with a proven track record of hiring, mentoring, and growing high-performing teams. Strong experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems and data infrastructure. Experience with observability platforms or AI/ML-powered infrastructure is a plus. Strong technical judgment and execution skills, with the ability to balance long-term platform investments with near-term business priorities. Passion for developer experience, platform engineering, and applying AI to improve engineering productivity and operational excellence. Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills across engineering, product, and infrastructure teams. You Will Partner with stakeholders across the company to define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the next generation of observability infrastructure at Roblox. Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers building AI-powered observability platforms and intelligent developer infrastructure. Foster a strong engineering culture centered on ownership, execution, innovation, collaboration, and customer impact. Drive initiatives that improve developer productivity, operational excellence, and platform reliability at scale. Help shape the future of AI-driven developer tooling, CI/CD, testing, and DevOps experiences across Roblox. 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 $295,250 — $345,040 USD Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence 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 to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process. For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
View more...Distinguished Engineer, Machine Learning - Discovery
Software Engineering
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 Distinguished Engineer/Technical Director on Discovery, you’ll be in charge of the overall technical vision and execution for all machine learning initiatives across search and discovery teams. The mission of these teams is to connect a billion users with the best connections and content at the right time, covering a very diverse range of search and recommendation problems at a high scale. This is fundamental to how we personalize the experience to drive engagement and retention for Roblox users. With daily active users growing at a record rate, we are looking for expert tech leaders who are passionate about crafting and building machine learning solutions to power Search and Recommendations. You Will: Own the technical direction and implementation for the machine learning solutions that power the search and recommendation systems, driving Roblox content distribution. Author specs for new features and improvements. You would be responsible for setting the AI strategy, pushing the frontier of recommendation technology, and driving business outcomes across candidate generation, ranking, objective functions, and value delivery for both users and developers. Build and evolve infrastructure for training, serving, and evaluating both traditional ML models and Generative AI models (e.g., embedding-based retrieval, transformers, LLM-based workflows) You will co-design models and systems, working at the intersection of model architecture and infrastructure, partnering closely with core modelers, data and AI infrastructure engineers, and product teams to push the boundaries of large-scale training and serving. Lead other engineers by example and through technical direction as an individual contributor and create an engineering culture of excellence Become an authority on our technology stack and make sure we always build new solutions the right way Collaborate with other teams within Roblox to make sure we are building products with community and company first attitude. Balance researching new technologies with a practical approach to realize the research efforts into the Roblox products Collaborate with the industry and communities where applicable and be ambassador for Roblox. You Have: 10+ years of experience and a consistent record of delivering and improving large-scale search and recommendation systems. Experience crafting and building large scale machine learning models with billions of parameters and launching them into production. The capability of breaking down long-term product requirements into iterative deliverable stages. Initiated and facilitated challenging technical decisions across multiple teams and organizations. You are empathetic and find common understanding. Deep technical expertise, you always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers. A generalist approach and you have mastered several languages and technologies already; you can easily adapt to any situation. The ability to roll up your sleeves to tackle data problems or machine learning problems when they come up. A creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems. You simplify the complex. You bring in fresh ideas from new places. BS in Computer Science or a related discipline, MS/PhD are a definite 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 . Annual Salary Range $419,390 — $457,970 USD Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence 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 to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process. For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
View more...Developer Engagement Representative - Philippines (Part-Time Contract)
Developer Relations (Non-Tech)
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 Developer Relations team at Roblox is looking for new team members for our ever-growing International Developer Engagement Team. We're looking for someone who is passionate about Roblox and growing the local creator community in their region. You Are: Fluent in both English and Tagalog Physically located in the Philippines You Will: Develop an understanding of Roblox moderation rules and guidelines Identify and engage with potential partners within the developer community to build and maintain a strong partnership pipeline Plan and execute online and offline community events, workshops, and initiatives that inspire and connect developers across regions. Manage programs from initial concept through successful completion, setting clear goals, tracking milestones, and measuring outcomes. Support translation and localization efforts to ensure programs, communications, and resources are accessible and culturally relevant to global audiences. Follow established team processes while identifying opportunities to refine and improve workflows. You Have: Great understanding of Roblox and the Roblox community Good standing regarding Roblox moderation history Excellent speaking and writing skills in both English and one of the applied languages Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities, both online and offline A proactive and adaptable mindset with a passion for supporting and growing a global developer ecosystem. Ability to work cross-functionally and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment with a team-first mentality Believe that helping the community is crucial to the success of the company A desire to help empower and encourage our developer community Knowledge and understanding of community processes, methodologies and best practices Experience with gaming communities, game jams, or virtual/hybrid event planning is a plus Early career / fresh grad preferred Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence 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 to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process. For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
View more...Principal Software Engineer- Account Authentication
Software Engineering
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. 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. WHY SAFETY? At Roblox, we strive to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and the Safety organization’s mission is to become the leader in civil immersive online communities. We systematically detect, remove, and prevent problematic accounts, content and behavior, and we make Roblox accounts secure and free from compromise. We cover a broad area of the tech spectrum, including machine learning, classifiers for 3D models, experimentation, automation, detection workflows, and AI-powered text filters. Aligned and partnering with product teams, we use this toolbelt to discover new opportunities, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build safety products, and measure the impact on our community of users and developers. In doing so, we keep Roblox safe, civil, and inclusive, and we foster positive relationships between people around the world. WHY Account Authentication We provide the gateway for users having access to millions of experiences and the broader Roblox community. Nearly every feature on the platform assumes that the user is who they say they are. The role of the Account Authentication pod is to provide that assurance at sign-up, login, account recovery and elsewhere. You Will: Set the multi-year client technical vision and system architecture for Account Authentication across all Roblox platforms (Web, Mobile, Desktop, Console, VR/AR). Past examples of this team’s contributions include: Supporting platform expansion onto consoles like Xbox and Playstation. Providing mechanisms for users to go entirely passwordless from sign-up while still having recoverable accounts. Implementing service accounts to support testing (and potentially NPCs) by 3P agents. Partner with product management, security, and core client infrastructure teams to architect product-focused client-side authentication engine capabilities, session resilience, and protocol integrations. Drive end-to-end client systems engineering across low-level client codebases (C++, Lua, native iOS/Android, platform SDKs) and underlying services supporting real-time authentication product flows. Drive client architecture standards, client performance optimization, network efficiency, and cross-platform technical consistency for hundreds of millions of daily active users. You Have: Client Systems Architecture & Product Leadership: Technical mastery in client-side systems engineering (C++, Rust, Lua, iOS/Android native runtimes, or cross-platform engine architectures) coupled with a strong track record of driving core growth and product strategy through authentication experiences. Growth-Driven Client Infrastructure & Performance: Proven expertise architecting seamless client-side authentication flows that eliminate user friction, optimize app startup latency, and directly accelerate user acquisition, retention, and conversion across diverse platforms. Secure Product & Auth Protocols: Deep domain knowledge of client-side security architecture, passkeys/WebAuthn, device attestation, and smooth protocol integration that balances robust security with effortless user onboarding. Strategic Product Architecture: Experience defining end-to-end client engine capabilities and middleware that power product growth initiatives across heterogeneous platforms (Mobile, Desktop, Console, Embedded/VR). Educational Background: BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience in client systems architecture. You Are: Principal Client Systems & Product Leader (15+ years): Deep background leading and architecting client systems infrastructure and strategic product initiatives at massive scale to power core user growth. Growth-Focused Product Strategist: Passionate about leveraging authentication as a catalyst for growth, focusing on user onboarding efficiency, startup performance, and seamless access across hardware ecosystems. Performance & Telemetry Driven: Expert in client profiling, low-level tracing, client metric collection, and data-driven optimization of client system behavior and user product flows. Cross-Functional Technical Catalyst: A collaborative engineering authority who bridges client runtime engineering, platform security, network infrastructure, and product teams to ship resilient core architecture. Client AI & Runtime Pioneer: Passionate about embedding client-side AI/ML runtimes, intelligent device security, and context-aware system capabilities directly into client software. 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 $295,250 — $345,040 USD Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence 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 to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process. For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
View more...Principal Software Engineer
Software Engineering
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 Software Engineer of the Game Engine data model team, you will innovate on the core data structures that form the backbone of Roblox’s platform. In this role you will have first hand opportunity to design and build one of the core technologies that makes the Roblox game engine special. The Data Model framework provides an interface between engine capabilities and our creators. It also acts as a fabric to core technologies, such as networking, scripting, Studio, rendering and physics which are essential to the high performance of the Roblox game engine. This role is in our San Mateo, CA HQ three days a week (Tuesdays to Thursdays). You Will: Develop engine code that performs well for all user-created games on the Roblox platform. Establish the foundational architecture and technical direction for the team. Work cross-functionally , across teams and technology platforms to deliver high quality and amazing functionality. Lead by example and mentor engineers to implement technological best practices, patterns, and strategies. Improve the product quality by encouraging automation testing. Take Ownership of projects throughout their full lifecycles. Execute on all the devices Roblox supports - from desktop clients to mobile phone clients to console clients. You Have: At least 8+ years experience and expertise with C++ code-generation and analysis tools (libclang, Abstract Syntax Trees, etc). Outstanding systems-level C++ programming skills. Curiosity about the actual work the CPU does when you use smart pointers, templates, virtual functions, and blocks of memory, both structured and raw. BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience. Additional Considerations: Familiarity with game engines or other large-scale simulations is beneficial. Excellent interpersonal skills and follow-through. Ability to build systems that work and keep on working optimally. Detailed in handling potential failure cases, and diligent in automated testing. Willingness to learn, and stay up-to-date on technology developments. 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 $295,250 — $345,040 USD Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence 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 to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process. For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
View more...Engineering Manager, Machine Learning Infrastructure, Ads
Software Engineering
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. With Roblox Ads business growing at a rapid rate, we are building large scale ads machine learning infrastructure to deliver effective performance ads to our users, and more business values to our advertisers. We’re looking for an EM to lead a team of exceptional ML infrastructure engineers, build scalable, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure that powers ML systems across our organization. You’ll operate at the scales of hundreds of billions of engagements, and redefine how we deliver performance ads to hundreds of millions of users. You Will: Lead strategic planning and roadmap execution of scalable production-ready ML systems including model training, data pipelines, feature engineering and model inference. Own the architecture, establish engineering best practices of scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of ML infrastructure (e.g., training, serving, feature). Work closely with data scientists, ML engineers, platform teams, and product stakeholders to design, implement, and operate robust ML platforms that accelerate model development and deployment. Recruit, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of ML infrastructure engineers. You Have: 5+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying large-scale machine learning systems in production environments. 2+ years of experience managing ML infrastructure engineers End-to-End Execution: You’ve built ML systems from data ingestion to serving in production. Team-first Mindset: A collaborative leader who thrives on mentoring and enabling others to succeed. BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. 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 $295,250 — $345,040 USD Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence 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 to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process. For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
View more...Principal Software Engineer
Software Engineering
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. Why Safety? At Roblox, we strive to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and the Safety organization’s mission is to become the leader in civil immersive online communities. We systematically detect, remove, and prevent problematic content and behavior, and we make Roblox accounts secure and free from compromise. We cover a broad area of the tech spectrum, including machine learning, classifiers for 3D models, experimentation, automation, detection workflows, and AI-powered text filters. Aligned and partnering with product teams, we use this toolbelt to discover new opportunities, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build safety products, and measure the impact on our community of users and developers. In doing so, we keep Roblox safe, civil, and inclusive, and we foster positive relationships between people around the world. Why Safety Foundation? Safety Foundation is the infrastructure backbone that powers safety across Roblox. Every piece of content reviewed, every moderation action taken, every safety workflow running anywhere on the platform flows through systems built by this team. We are the platform that other safety teams build on — and right now, we're in the middle of one of the most significant evolutions in our history. We're scaling to handle 10x more traffic while keeping cost growth in check. We're rebuilding the platform to be AI-first, natively supporting agentic and ML-driven safety workflows without compromising on security or auditability. And we're radically improving developer velocity — cutting the time it takes any team to integrate safety capabilities from months to hours. As a Principal Software Engineer on Safety Foundation, you'll be the hands-on tech lead for a group of engineers on the team. You'll set technical direction, own architecture decisions, and stay deeply engaged in the work. Your decisions will shape how safety works across all of Roblox — for over 100+ daily monthly active users. You Will: Serve as the hands-on tech lead for a group of engineers on the Safety Foundation team — setting technical direction, driving execution, and staying close to the code Lead the design and implementation of a scalable, cost-efficient platform engineered for 10x traffic growth Drive the AI-first transformation of the safety platform: architecting agentic and ML-integrated workflows with the security, auditability, and reliability that production safety systems require Build the developer experience layer that enables product teams across Roblox to integrate safety capabilities in hours, not months Partner closely with Trust & Safety ML, User Safety, Safety Operations, and product teams to translate platform needs into durable infrastructure Define backend standards and patterns across the team; raise the technical bar through code review, architecture guidance, and mentorship Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across networking, data, and compute — at scale You Have: 10+ years of experience building large-scale backend/distributed systems and shipping high-quality systems to production. Strong preference for candidates who have experience with building developer platforms. 4+ years acting as a tech lead: setting direction, driving execution, and growing engineers at multiple levels Deep proficiency in Go or a similar compiled language (Go strongly preferred). Experience with CQRS & Event Sourcing is a plus Experience with NoSQL databases at scale (DynamoDB, Cassandra, or similar) Experience with or strong interest in AI/ML platform integration — pipelines, agentic workflows, HITL workflows or similar BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field — or equivalent experience You Are: A hands-on technical leader. You can zoom out to own the architecture and zoom in to write the hard code. You don't choose between leading and building — you do both. A platform thinker. You design for reuse, velocity, and reliability. You understand that your customers are other engineering teams, and you build with them in mind. Comfortable with ambiguity. You thrive on open-ended, gnarly problems. You can break them down, build alignment, and drive them to resolution — without waiting for perfect requirements. A team-player & multiplier. You are collaborative & strive to make everyone around you better — through rigorous code & architecture reviews, clear technical communication, and a genuine investment in the growth of the people you work with. 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 $295,250 — $345,040 USD Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence 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 to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process. For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
View more...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. With Roblox’s daily active users growing at a record pace, we are seeking experienced machine learning researchers who thrive on solving complex challenges and designing scalable, ground breaking solutions. In this role, you will innovate on LLMs, VLMs, autoregressive models, or other large models for user understanding, content understanding, recommendation, and agentic search. Your work will lay the foundation for personalizing user experiences, enhancing engagement and retention, and driving growth within the creator ecosystem. In search and discovery, you will contribute to the core systems that enable users to discover and interact with experiences across Roblox. On Search, that work spans the end-to-end user search journey, covering query suggestions, autocomplete, and retrieval and ranking. These systems drive exploration and engagement across all surfaces, helping users find relevant and exciting content. Looking ahead, our team aims to innovate further by developing auto-generated summaries, images, and videos from experience content to improve discoverability and inspire user exploration. Our mission is to connect a billion users with the best content and connections at the right time, tackling diverse challenges in advertising, search, and discovery at an unprecedented scale. Join us and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Roblox’s search and discovery. You Will: Design and implement the machine learning solutions that power agentic search and discovery systems to drive Roblox content distribution. Design and implement large scale recommendation models. In this role, you will innovate on LLMs, VLMs, autoregressive models, or other large models for query understanding, user understanding, content understanding, recommendation, and agentic search. Design eval and post-training loops - SFT, preference optimization, and RL - for ranking, query understanding, and agentic systems. Balance researching new technologies with a practical approach to integrate research efforts into the Roblox products. Collaborate with other teams within Roblox to make sure we are building products with a community first approach. Communicate with the industry and communities where applicable and be ambassador for Roblox. You have: You have 7+ (for principal) or 4+ (for senior) years of experience designing and building scalable machine learning solutions. Experienced with transformer based model training, inference, and product integration. Break down product requirements into iterative deliverable stages. Depth in recommendation, search retrieval and ranking, or LLM post-training and agentic systems is a plus. You have a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related discipline or equivalent experience. You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical decisions across multiple teams and organizations. While deeply technical, you always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers. A creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems. You simplify the complex. You bring in fresh ideas from new places. 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 $278,530 — $345,040 USD Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence 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 to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process. For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
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