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Drive stability and performance improvements across Roblox's C++ game engine and front-end systems on mobile, desktop, and console platforms. You'll research opportunities, design solutions to prevent crashes and hangs, build monitoring and detection systems, and work cross-functionally to ship measurable improvements. This role requires 10+ years with complex client codebases, strong C++ proficiency, hands-on performance profiling experience on mobile or desktop, and systems thinking. Based in San Mateo, CA, onsite Tuesday–Thursday. Salary $295,250–$345,040.
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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.
The Consumer App Performance team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to spearhead stability and performance improvements. You will work across system-level, cross-platform C++ game engine, and front-end codebase, partnering with teams across the company to identify bad behavior patterns and performance bottlenecks, ship measurable improvements, and prevent regressions over time.
Our team owns the end-to-end performance of Roblox, from speed and responsiveness to efficiency and stability, across all devices and platforms we support: mobile, desktop, and console.
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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.
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.
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Roblox operates an immersive gaming and social platform built around experiences created by its community. Users play, communicate, attend events, and create virtual identities across millions of interactive worlds accessible on computers, consoles, mobile devices, and selected virtual-reality hardware. Creators use Roblox Studio and platform services to build and publish experiences, then earn through the Robux virtual economy, advertising, subscriptions, and commerce. Roblox provides the underlying engine, hosting, discovery, safety, moderation, and monetization systems.
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