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 on the Sharing team, you will shape the technical direction that powers how millions of users capture, share, and discover content on Roblox. You will lead the design of large-scale backend systems that support high-performance content creation, sharing, and discovery across the platform.
You will partner closely with engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to define long-term architecture, drive technical excellence, and guide teams in building scalable and reliable systems. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive on solving complex distributed systems challenges while empowering other engineers and teams to do their best work.
You Will
- Define and drive the technical vision for large-scale backend systems that power content creation, sharing, and consumption across Roblox.
- Lead the design and evolution of scalable distributed services that support billions of content interactions each day.
- Guide and mentor engineers across the team, helping raise the bar for system design, code quality, and operational excellence.
- Partner with product, infrastructure, and safety teams to shape cross-team architecture and ensure systems scale with the platform’s growth.
- Identify systemic challenges across teams (performance, reliability, developer workflows) and drive long-term technical improvements.
- Provide technical leadership during complex projects, helping teams make sound architectural decisions and navigate trade-offs.
- Influence engineering best practices across the organization and help evolve the platform’s backend architecture.
- Help grow the engineering organization by mentoring senior engineers and helping attract top technical talent.
You Have
- 8+ years of experience building large-scale backend systems in C++, C#, Java, or similar languages.
- Deep experience designing distributed systems, scalable APIs, and high-throughput backend services.
- Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives across multiple teams or systems.
- Strong experience mentoring engineers and guiding teams through complex system design and architecture decisions.
- Experience working on consumer-facing platforms at scale with millions of users.
- Excellent product and systems thinking — able to balance user experience, system performance, and long-term maintainability.
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical 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.