Roblox
Principal Software Engineer, Agent Infrastructure
San Mateo, CA, United States · Principal · Full-time
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About the role
- They run for hours instead of milliseconds, they're non-deterministic, they execute code nobody wrote, and they need real credentials against real systems to be useful at all.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Experience building and deploying production systems on Kubernetes, using GitOps and Argo CD.
- Contributions to open source or experience building your own product with real user traction.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field.
Nice to have
- Security experience with systems that run untrusted code: sandbox and container isolation (gVisor, Firecracker, microVMs), Kubernetes hardening, network segmentation and egress control.
- Experience working with Temporal, AWS, and self-hosted models.
- For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below.
- Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.
Skills
- Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device.
- Why Roblox & Agent Infra
- Agent workloads break the assumptions most infrastructure is built on.
Compensation
- $278,530 - $345,040 USD
Company info
- Mentor senior engineers, lead design reviews, and push how far agents can build the agent platform itself.
Visa & Work Authorization
- 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.
This listing is sourced directly from Roblox's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.