Principal Software Engineer - Engineering Acceleration
San Mateo, CA · San Mateo · USD 295,250-345,040 / year · 7+ years experience · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Oct 9, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 7+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- San Mateo, CA · San Mateo
- Salary
- USD 295,250-345,040 / year · Base salary
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship not offered
About the role
- The Engineering Acceleration team at Roblox provides a golden path of intuitive tools and services helping every engineer at the company build, test, and ship world-class software.
- As a Service Management Principal Software Engineer, your responsibilities will include designing and constructing unified user-facing interfaces, engineering AI-powered developer tools, and assisting engineers in overseeing all changes to their services.
Responsibilities
- Partner with internal Engineering teams to gather requirements and develop our service management platform that fulfills the critical user journeys
- Create, influence, and improve the overall development and implementation of front and back-end applications that manage thousands of change rollouts everyday
- Collaborate with stakeholders and fellow engineering teams to come up with cross functional architectural designs tho be optimal for multiple years into the future
- Develop, mentor, and share best practices with our engineering teams to improve automation and efficiency
- Work closely with managers to shape the team's vision and bring that to life
- Work with a global team of engineers who are building groundbreaking technology to achieve the Metaverse
Requirements
- A BS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience) and at least 7+ years of relevant work experience
- Designed, built, shipped, monitored, and supported tools and/or systems used by other engineers at Roblox scale (1000+ engineers)
- Experience with backend development and frontend development and best practices
- Designed and built tools at scale
- Extensive Infrastructure and distributed system experience
- Experience working with common cloud technologies
- Experience with Docker, Containers, and CD Platforms
- Knowledgeable and proficient in deploying common industry build/test/CICD technology
- Experienced, with 8+ years as a software engineer
- A full stack engineer, having built tools using two or more languages (Go, C#, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, ReactJs, TypeScript…)
Preferred qualifications
- Familiarity with Hashi Corp and Kubernetes is a plus
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- Benefits as described on this page
Workplace
- You are required to be in the office at HQ 3 days a week (Tues-Thurs).
- Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
Skills
- Go
- C#
- JavaScript
- HTML
- CSS
- React
- TypeScript
- Docker
- Containers
- Kubernetes
- Hashi Corp
