# Principal Software Engineer, Creator Game Operations at Roblox

- Company: Roblox
- What the company does: Roblox is a global platform where millions of people gather together every day to imagine, create, and share experiences with each other in immersive, user-generated 3D worlds. Backed by Greylock, a16z and Index.
- Company website: https://about.roblox.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Mateo, CA, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-28
- Apply by: 2026-11-12
- Apply: https://careers.roblox.com/jobs/8186482?gh_jid=8186482
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/roblox-principal-software-engineer-creator-game-operations/

## About the role

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. As a Backend Engineer, you will have the independence, opportunity, and end-to-end responsibility to help us build a critical, complex set of backend systems that support the creators of games and other experiences within our Roblox ecosystem.

## What they're looking for

- Experienced in industry: An outstanding software engineer with 8+ years of industry experience
- Experienced with Distributed Systems: You are deeply familiar with and regularly work with concepts like stream processing, data pipeline, queue, RPC, retry strategies, etc
- Experienced with native code : You have worked on deep and challenging problems in complex networked codebases, with 3+ years of experience in C#, Java, Go, or any other object-oriented programming language
- Platforms : You can jump with ease between Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, and other platforms. You understand where platform-specific code is relevant
- Responsible: You build systems with proper monitoring, logging, operations, and automated testing in mind
- Teamwork: A team player and love collaborating with others to push the boundaries and challenge the status quo

Tags: Software Engineering