- Job type
- Full-time
- Work mode
- On-site
- Level
- Senior
- Department
- Software Development
- Experience
- 7+ years experience
- Posted
- Sep 25, 2026
About the role
The Creator Service Translation team is the heartbeat behind our worldwide gaming experiences. We own a broad spectrum of localization sources including text, images, audio, etc, as well as the full localization pipeline for content detection, translation, serving and rendering. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and build highly scalable systems to help creators to continuously deliver experiences that feel native and seamless. You will help us to expand the language families and locales, support real-time localization, enrich translation media types, and improve the translation quality to be industry-leading for Roblox.
Join us if you thrive on cross-functional collaboration, care about the craft of language, and want to shape how millions of players experience our worlds, and everywhere in between.
You Have:
- Experience: You have 7+ years of experience and you’ve designed and led implementation on highly scalable and reliable distributed backend systems. You have hands-on experience in microservices.
- Knowledge: You are proficient in one or more programming languages (C#, C++, Go, Python or similar programming language). Deep understanding of C++ is a plus, familiarity with game engine is a plus, familiarity with machine learning is a plus.
- Curiosity: You are curious and passionate about industry trends and new technologies, you are able to apply them to practical problems innovatively.
- Strong Teamwork: You are able to drive cross-functional projects and collaborate with teams to deliver the most curated technical solution.
- Long-term Mindset: You are willing to take the long-term to build the system, and your design choices and technical solutions are usually still optimal multiple years into the future.
You Will:
- Tackle and solve challenging full-stack problems that touch the client, game engine, backend services and machine learning models.
- Own product areas and projects from technical design, execution, launch, and quick iteration based on feedback.
- Work closely with product, design, and partner teams to maintain high execution quality and pace.
- Proactively gather community feedback and respond swiftly to their needs, ensuring our products evolve to deliver exceptional value.