Software Engineer, Test Frameworks & Tooling

San Mateo, CA · San Mateo · USD 153,120-196,750 / year · 1+ years experience · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Oct 6, 2026

At a glance

The Test Frameworks & Tooling team designs, builds, and scales tools and services that power the test automation lifecycle of Roblox services.
Systems span test frameworks, execution, orchestration and debugging, AI test generation, and canary analysis.

Build and scale test automation infrastructure: Design, implement, and evolve the frameworks, runners, orchestration services, workflow integrations, and supporting infrastructure that power reliable testing across Roblox's supported platforms
Advance the AI-native test lifecycle: Develop intelligent tooling that improves test authoring, selection, execution, maintenance, and failure triage, using AI to reduce manual effort and make testing more accessible and effective
Develop test orchestration and intelligence: Build systems that connect test planning, test selection, execution, and failure analysis, enabling more efficient use of test infrastructure and faster feedback to engineers
Improve test reliability and debugging: Build tools and services that improve test stability, observability, failure diagnosis, and maintenance across a large and evolving test ecosystem
Shift quality earlier in the development lifecycle: Integrate automated quality checks and actionable test feedback into development and CI/CD workflows to help teams identify and resolve issues earlier
Drive projects end to end: Take ownership of technical initiatives from problem definition, design, and implementation through production deployment, adoption, measurement, and continuous improvement
Collaborate across engineering: Partner with application, platform, QA, infrastructure, and developer productivity teams to develop scalable solutions that address the needs of engineers across Roblox

1+ years of experience building large-scale backend or infrastructure systems
Knowledge: You are proficient in one or more programming languages (C#, Go, Python or similar programming language)
Curiosity: You are curious and passionate about solving open-ended problems
Strong Teamwork: You are able to collaborate in cross-functional and cross team projects to deliver the most curated technical solution
Long-term Mindset: You are willing to take the long view to drive the collaboration and build the system

An understanding of building systems that operate at high QPS with low-latency requirements is a plus
Experience working on infrastructure or performance-critical backend systems is a plus

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted)