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Software Engineer, Economy Platform

Roblox
San Mateo, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 9/19/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/28/2026
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.

At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.

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.

Robux is Roblox’s virtual currency and it enables players to participate in our virtual economy and creators to earn a living. The Economy Platform team owns the systems powering these transactions, ensuring our global economy remains healthy, vibrant, and trusted. You will work on robust, extensible, and flexible systems involving purchasing, pricing, and payout systems that process billions of transactions and pay out hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

You Have

  • A passion for working on highly available and large-scale backend systems in production
  • Knowledge of REST, API design patterns, and scalable containerized systems and microservices
  • A data-driven focus on quality metrics and monitoring
  • 1-3 years of experience in Software Engineering / Computer Science

You Will

  • Have direct impact on the future direction of one of the largest virtual economies in the world and the largest social platform for play
  • Develop highly scalable, resilient systems for our creators to optimize their revenue within Roblox
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product teams to identify and introduce new economic models

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: 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. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.

Annual Salary Range

$153,120—$196,750 USD

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

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

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.

Salary : $153,120 - $196,750

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