Principal Software Engineer - Engineering Productivity

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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 Studio Test Automation, Tools and Infrastructure Team provides tools and services to enable engineers to develop and test software that can be delivered to production quickly and efficiently while maintaining an exceptional level of quality.

Our customers are our coworkers, and you will work with engineers across Roblox to provide the tools and test infrastructure they need. You will work on projects at every stage of the pipeline, improving the CI test experience all the way through to load testing the deployment in production.

As a team, we believe in fast iteration and are biased toward action while keeping the long view as we work on projects relating to:

  • Building entire integrated solutions for Roblox with regards to cross-service validation during CI/CD
  • Building an ML driven platform for test recommendation based on risk and coverage
  • Developing innovative visualization tools.
  • Building test framework libraries and new services.

You Are:

  • Experienced: You have worked on deep and challenging problems in complex C++ codebases.
  • Motivated: With a development track record and 6+ years shipping high complexity code
  • A Technical Leader: Providing mentorship to those around you by advocating for solid coding practices
  • Platform knowledge: You can jump with ease between Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, and iOS
  • Curious: You want to learn and stay up-to-date on technology developments
  • Collaborative: Enjoy working with other teams and disciplines to design elegant solutions that are scalable, compliant, and delightful
  • Focused on writing clear, readable, testable, and monitored code

You will:

  • Develop engine code in the area to allow automated regression testing with Thin Scriptable Client
  • Manage enormous projects that span multiple teams.
  • beautiful Ship code, following high coding standards and establishing new ones.
  • Work for your team, being a force multiplier by unblocking issues and bridging the gaps between organizations.
  • Be a Technical Lead by mentoring engineers to ensure your team's expertise grows over time.
  • Work with your product partners to establish the roadmap and lead the project execution.
  • Collaborate with other engineering teams, products, and designs to develop new functionality, pipelines, and workflow.
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.
Annual Salary Range
$283,780—$331,640 USD

You’ll Love: 

  • Industry-leading compensation package
  • Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • A rewarding 401k program
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy 
  • Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
  • At Roblox HQ: 
    • Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
    • Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
    • Annual CalTrain Go Pass

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. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.