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California, United States
Hybrid
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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.
Text chat is one of the most visible and widely used features on Roblox, with over 2 billion messages processed daily. Every day, tens of millions of players rely on it to coordinate, connect, and express themselves across thousands of games. It is also one of our highest-leverage engine services: our core text communication APIs are deeply embedded in the Roblox game engine, empowering tens of thousands of creators to build customized communication experiences in their games.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll own the full frontend and engine-layer architecture of this system — from the React-based UI that players interact with daily, to the Lua/C++ service APIs that power creator integrations. You'll be the person who makes text communication feel immersive, seamless in both 2D and 3D, safe, and expressive across mobile, PC, console and VR — at a scale few engineers ever get to work at.
While our scope is vast, our teams remain intentionally lean to ensure impact. This gives you significant ownership, allowing you to lead cross-functional workstreams and shape our long-term roadmap from your first day.
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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).
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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.