Principal Software Engineer, Engineering Acceleration

About the Role

The Engineering Acceleration team delivers a world-class development experience to our 2000+ Roblox teammates who write, build, and ship the most incredible virtual experience platform in the world. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will set the technical direction for transforming development at Roblox from its solid roots to a fully scaled, globally mature, AI-powered development, code review, and CI environment.

Responsibilities

• Own, scale, and define the long-term technical vision for Roblox's source code search, storage, review, and CI infrastructure for the next 10 years of growth.
• Architect software that improves the lives of your coworkers — spanning local development tools, internal web apps and microservices, reusable CI workflows, productivity metrics toolchains, and integrations across many 1st and 3rd party tools.
• Lead and drive major company-wide efforts improving the productivity and user experience of our Source and CI tools, setting direction across teams and impacting every engineer at Roblox.
• Define how AI and other cutting-edge tech come into the day-to-day lives of Roblox engineers, revolutionizing their ability to produce better code faster with less toil.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of software engineering experience, with a significant portion spent owning developer productivity, build infrastructure, or internal developer platform systems at scale.
• Experience owning end-to-end design, launch, and long-term evolution of tools or systems used by other developers at scale (2000+ engineers).
• Deep knowledge of source control and/or CI tools and infrastructure. GitHub, GitHub Actions, and Artifactory experience are a plus.
• Experience working with common cloud and hosting technologies, particularly AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Hashistack (Nomad, Vault, Terraform).
• Fluency in at least one common language (C#, Python, Go, Java).
• Passionate about developer experience with a customer-focused mindset.
• Track record of leading cross-functional efforts at scale, aligning teams across a company, and driving complex technical initiatives to completion.
• Proven technical leader excited to mentor engineers at all levels.

Work Arrangement

Roles based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday.