# Senior Software Engineer, Application Gateway 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: Senior
- Location: San Mateo, CA, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-29
- Apply: https://careers.roblox.com/jobs/8197260?gh_jid=8197260
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/roblox-senior-software-engineer-application-gateway/

## 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. 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.

## What they're looking for

- Deeply knowledgeable of L7 networking concepts: routing and request transformation, TLS termination and certificate management, authentication and authorization, rate limiting, and load-balancing
- Experienced running Kubernetes in production and familiar with the K8s networking model
- Comfortable working with Envoy proxy internals, xDS APIs, and control plane architectures
- Excellent at designing large-scale distributed systems that span multiple clusters, regions, and runtime environments
- Fluent in Go, C/C++, or Rust
- Experienced with on-call rotations and approach infrastructure with a “reliability-first” mindset

Tags: Software Engineering