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# Software Engineer, Compute Cell Platform

- **Company:** Roblox
- **Location:** San Mateo, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $196,750.0 - $243,290.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Distributed Systems, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Roblox, Golang
- **Published:** July 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://careers.roblox.com/jobs/8056362?gh_jid=8056362

## About the Role

* A desire to work on critical, large-scale distributed systems
 * An appreciation of observability and instrumentation and tooling to make your life easier
 * 3+ years of experience as software engineer
 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or an equivalent field

## Description

As a senior software engineer on the Cell Platform team at Roblox, you will build systems that Roblox engineers use to create and deploy resources onto Kubernetes. Our engineers deploy their services in a complex, hybrid, multiple-cluster, K8s environment. The Cell Platform manages this complexity for our users, with tools, APIs, K8s controllers, and UX, simplifying infrastructure for our internal customers., * Build our Roblox-wide control plane using Kubernetes primitives (and plenty of custom resources)

 * Work on the interface of the few hundred person infrastructure organization to the thousands of Roblox engineers
 * Write and review high quality code and tests (largely Golang)
 * Work on a team that cares about inclusivity and shipping


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