# Principal Software Engineer, Orchestration 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 First Round.
- Company website: https://hbr.org/2022/03/the-ceo-of-roblox-on-scaling-community-sourced-innovation
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Mateo, CA, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-19
- Apply by: 2026-12-03
- Apply: https://careers.roblox.com/jobs/8094683?gh_jid=8094683&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/roblox-principal-software-engineer-orchestration/

## 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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- B.S. equivalent in CS or sufficient experience
- 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production-grade, large-scale distributed systems
- Kubernetes Expertise: Proven experience managing and scaling production Kubernetes clusters on AWS (EKS), including Helm, autoscaling (Karpenter or Cluster Autoscaler), and GitOps-style deployment
- Data Workload Familiarity: Working knowledge of how Spark jobs run on Kubernetes (Spark on K8s, spark-operator, or EMR on EKS) and how orchestration interacts with them
- Platform Mindset: Experience building platforms used by other engineers, with strong instincts for APIs, observability, reliability, and developer experience
- Cross-Organizational Technical Leadership: A track record of influencing direction across a large engineering organization and driving multi-quarter projects from concept to production

Tags: Software Engineering

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