About the job
Every day, millions of users engage with Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends through immersive 3D digital experiences crafted by our vibrant community of developers and creators.
At Roblox, we are dedicated to building innovative tools and platforms that empower our community to bring their imaginations to life. Our vision is to revolutionize how people connect from anywhere in the world, on any device. We are on a mission to unite a billion individuals with optimism and civility, and we are looking for exceptional talent to help us achieve this goal.
A career at Roblox means you will be instrumental in shaping the future of human interaction, tackling unique technical challenges at scale, and contributing to the creation of safer, more respectful shared experiences for all.
With Roblox’s daily active user base growing rapidly, we are in search of a Principal Software Engineer to join our Ads Platform team. This team is fundamental to all advertising systems at Roblox, delivering billions of ads to millions of daily users while powering high-scale, high-throughput data systems that enhance ad personalization, ranking, and measurement.
As a Principal Software Engineer on the Ads Platform team, you will set the technical direction and lead the team in its mission to reliably serve Roblox’s enormous scale. You will drive performance enhancements to our ad serving and delivery infrastructure while expanding our systems to support a variety of new and immersive advertising experiences. Your responsibilities will span multiple teams, requiring close collaboration with engineers across machine learning, backend, and analytics to shape the future of advertising infrastructure at Roblox.
This role is ideal for individuals who excel in managing large-scale systems and data-driven applications and have a passion for developing inspiring, maintainable, and reusable code. Join our talented and rapidly growing team to make a significant impact at Roblox.
This position reports to our Senior Engineering Manager and requires in-office work at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA from Tuesday to Thursday.

