Roblox
Senior Software Engineer, Foundation & Luau Platform
San Mateo, CA, United States · Senior · Full-time
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odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$24,437 more — $221,187 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $221,187 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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Green-card follow-through: 79%
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About the role
- Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device.
- 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.
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.
- Design and build the frameworks and APIs that Roblox's UI is built on, including layout and navigation systems, server-driven UI, and a shared component library
- Build and evolve the core systems beneath the UI, such as navigation, routing, state management, and data flow, so features load quickly and behave consistently
- Drive startup performance, transition smoothness, and layout stability across the client on phones, tablets, and desktop, using traces and telemetry to set measurable quality bars
- Drive adoption of the platform across Roblox by partnering with product, design, and feature engineering teams to guide them onto our frameworks and components, and turning their feedback into a better platform
- 4+ years of professional experience building and shipping client applications, ideally on mobile (iOS, Android) or desktop, with a strong foundation in application architecture
- Experience designing shared frameworks, UI platforms, or core libraries that other engineers build on
- Experience building cross-platform applications that run on mobile, desktop, and console
- Experience supporting other engineers in adopting a shared platform, through documentation, migration guides, or direct developer support
Requirements
- Experience with feature flagging, staged rollouts, and experiment-driven launches
- Experience with Luau or Lua
- Experience with React Navigation or comparable routing libraries
- Experience with native mobile development on iOS or Android
- Experience with server-driven UI or dynamic UI delivery systems
Skills
- Our UI is written in Luau, Roblox's scripting language, using React-style frameworks.
Compensation
- $196,750 - $243,290 USD
Benefits
- Raise the quality bar through thoughtful code review, strong test coverage, and clear documentation, and mentor other engineers
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.