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[2027] Software Engineer, Early Career

Roblox is hiring a [2027] Software Engineer, Early Career in San Mateo, United States. It pays $153k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Roblox.

Level's read on this job

  • On Level's scale, this software engineer role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
  • The posting mentions visa sponsorship.
  • The posting mentions LLMs, Machine Learning Frameworks and software engineering among its tools and skills.
  • Level classes it as a junior role.
  • Roblox has 271 other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

Join Roblox as an early career software engineer to design and scale distributed systems while exploring emerging technologies like LLMs.

LLMsMachine Learning Frameworks
software-engineeringsystem-designdistributed-systems

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.

As an Early Career Software Engineer at Roblox, your story begins with supportive mentorship and immediate, global impact. You’ll work alongside seasoned engineers and curious experts, designing, coding, and deploying real features that reach millions of people globally. By the end of your first year, you’ll have directly influenced the future of our platform and the experience of our global community with millions of daily active users.

You Will:

  • Join a community of curious, supportive engineers, actively engaging in architectural discussions and system design.
  • Investigate and experiment with cutting-edge technologies, like machine learning frameworks and large language models (LLMs), to solve complex technical challenges and improve our engineering systems.
  • Design, code, and test innovative features, navigating the full development lifecycle from initial design to production deployment.
  • Partner closely with cross-functional teams, including Design, Product, Data, QA, and DevOps, to deliver cohesive products and features.
  • Support the continuous evolution of our distributed systems, operating at our massive scale of 2 trillion analytics events a day.
  • Engage in our team matching process, chatting directly with engineering managers from across Roblox, including Infra, Engine, Search & Discovery, Foundational AI, Economy, and more, to help guide your placement.

You Are:

  • Pursuing or in possession of an undergraduate/graduate degree in computer science, engineering, a related technical field, or an equivalent practical experience.
  • Experienced with software engineering concepts through coursework, internships, personal projects, or previous roles.
  • Proficient in one or more programming languages, including C#, Lua, Java, Go, Node.js, Ruby, Python, C++, and Swift.
  • Able to thrive in ambiguous environments, quickly adapting to new challenges and collaborating across the company to solve complex technical challenges while developing proficiency in coding standards.

To support you through the next steps and help you showcase your very best during the interview, we invite you to sign up for Speak_. There, you'll gain access to our practice assessments, comprehensive interview guides, and tailored modules designed to help you confidently present your knowledge, skills, and experiences.

You may redact age, date of birth, and dates of attendance/graduation from your resume if you prefer.

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$153,000—$153,000 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.

How we rate this

[2027] Software Engineer, Early Career at Roblox rates 25 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Software EngineeringSystem DesignDistributed SystemsLLMsMachine Learning Frameworks

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Pay

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$153k
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  3. Tell me about a project where distributed systems was part of your work. What did you do?
  4. What's a project where you used LLMs hands-on?
  5. Walk me through how you've used Machine Learning Frameworks in your day-to-day work.

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