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San Mateo, CA, United States
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.
Why Virtual Economy?
As a Principal Software Engineer reporting to our Senior Engineering Manager working on the Virtual Economy, you will oversee the scale and security of all things virtual economy at Roblox, from purchasing and selling virtual items to the future of commerce in the metaverse. This team maintains the base tooling that powers a virtual marketplace, handling millions of transactions a day. They provide the infrastructure and statistics to empower developers to monetize their experiences, with our developers earning hundreds of millions of dollars each year. You will help scale our distributed systems while maintaining a safe and secure economy. You will work at our HQ in San Mateo, CA 3 days per week (Tuesdays to Thursdays).
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Roles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
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