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# Software Engineer - Consoles

- **Company:** Roblox
- **Location:** San Mateo, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $196,750.0 - $243,290.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computing Platforms, C++ (Programming Language), Profiling, Code Review, Data Intelligence, Lua (Scripting Language), Data Logging, ReactJS
- **Published:** August 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://careers.roblox.com/jobs/8089039?gh_jid=8089039

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience building and shipping client software, with strong C++ proficiency; experience with Lua/React is a plus.
 * Client platform expertise: hands-on experience delivering on console, desktop, or mobile. Direct experience shipping on PlayStation or Xbox is highly valued.
 * Strong debugging instincts: you're comfortable profiling, tracing, and diagnosing hard problems across the full client stack, including platform-specific issues unique to console hardware.
 * Data fluency: you use metrics, logging, and experimentation to evaluate feature health, drive decisions, and measure player impact.
 * Ownership and self-direction: you can take an ambiguous problem, break it down, and drive it to completion without heavy oversight
 * Collaborative by nature: you communicate clearly, build trust across functions, and make the engineers around you better.

## Description

* Shape & improve the PlayStation and Xbox experience that millions of players see every day
 * Translate ambiguous product ideas into well-scoped, high-quality engineering plans in close partnership with product, design, and data science.
 * Raise the engineering bar through rigorous code review, proactive mentorship of junior engineers, and the standards you set in your own code.
 * Drive platform-level investments that benefit the broader engineering organization.
 * Work with our Xbox and PlayStation counterparts to ensure feature parity and platform-specific excellence.


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