Senior Software Engineer, Ads Platform

Job Summary

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 Senior Software Engineer on our Ads Platform team, you will architect and build foundational ads systems that are capable of reliably serving Roblox's massive scale. You will drive performance improvements to our ads serving and delivery infrastructure, while expanding our systems to support a variety of new and immersive ads experiences.

About the Role

This role is a great fit for you if you are proficient in managing large scale systems and data-driven applications and have a zeal for developing inspiring, easily maintainable, and reusable code. Join our highly skilled and rapidly growing team and make a significant impact at Roblox.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship best-in-class Ads products used by hundreds of millions of users.
• Develop backend services that scale to billions of products and transactions.
• Be a tech lead and mentor junior engineers.
• Self-organize and take ownership of projects throughout their full lifecycle.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software development and shipping complex products to production.
• Proficiency in one or more systems programming languages such as C#, Go, Rust, Java, C++, or Python.
• Knowledge with REST, GRPC, distributed systems design, scalable containerized systems and microservices.
• Experience with technologies like Kafka, Flink, Redis, and distributed sql/nosql databases.

Qualifications

• Experience working in ads systems is a plus.

Skills

• Technical leadership: Initiated and facilitated challenging technical solutions. Your technical expertise influences product direction. Nurtures a culture of technical excellence.
• Data & System Oriented: Understands that robust data is the foundation of great ML systems, designs infrastructure for scale, correctness, and reliability.
• Collaborative: Thrives in cross-functional teams, partnering effectively with ML, backend, and product engineers to solve complex challenges.
• Curious & Creative: Enjoy tackling hard problems, exploring new technologies, and driving continuous improvements in both systems and workflows.
• Impact Driven: Focuses on outcomes - prioritizes product impact, reliability, and measurable success over code volume or complexity.

Benefits

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.

Pay

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.

Annual Salary Range $196,750—$243,290 USD

Schedule

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).