- Job type
- Full-time
- Work mode
- On-site
- Level
- Senior
- Department
- Software Development
- Experience
- 7+ years experience
- Posted
- Sep 8, 2026
About the role
The Creator Content Team provides a secure, scalable, and extensible foundation for ingestion, processing, storing, managing, and serving user content. As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend, Distributed Systems), you will design and build backend services to help game creators reach the broadest audience possible. You will help us build & scale large distributed systems, data processing and analysis pipelines, an access control system, Open Cloud APIs all of which are central for all content created in Roblox.
You have:
- Experience: You have 7+ years of experience working on backend, distributed systems that are scalable and reliable. You have experience in architecting, designing and leading implementation of mission critical applications at scale.
- Knowledge: You are proficient in one or more programming languages (C#, Go, Java, C++, Python or similar programming language). You have a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science or related engineering field, Masters is a plus.
- Creativity: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems and envisioning ways to improve and grow the capabilities of the system. You have a vision for what can make a product great.
- Team-oriented mindset: You can work well as part of a team and know how to collaborate with all participants to develop the best solutions. You are happy to share your knowledge with everyone on the team.
You Will:
- Solve on a variety of unique technical challenges
- Have the independence, opportunity and the end-to-end responsibility to design, build, test and deploy services within the Roblox ecosystem
- Guide the future technical direction of the team and have impact on engineering
- Be a technical bar-raiser for high code quality, architectural designs, and long-term approaches
- Mentor and develop fellow engineers on the team
- Design systems and services that are scalable and resilient
- Collaborate with passionate, Engineers, Product Managers and other Roblox team members, cross-functionally