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# Principal Software Engineer

- **Company:** Roblox
- **Location:** San Mateo, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $295,250.0 - $345,040.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Open Source Technology, Information Technology, Roblox, Machine Learning Operations
- **Published:** October 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://careers.roblox.com/jobs/8292678?gh_jid=8292678

## About the Role

* 8+ years of working experience and experience in building, maintaining and evolving large scale distributed systems.
 * Demonstrated understanding of all the components that are required to build modern, large-scale infrastructures.
 * Ownership of end-to-end availability and performance of critical services to reduce operational overhead.
 * A love of learning, and a drive to pick up new technologies as the landscape evolves. Previous contributions to the Open Source Community is a big plus.
 * Passion about mentoring junior engineers, with the ability to earn their respect and help them stretch themselves to build great software and level up their technical knowledge.
 * You hold a BS in Computer Science or related fields; Masters degree or higher is a definite plus.

## Description

* Work with our business partners to determine the vision and roadmap, and lead the project execution end-to-end.
 * Focus especially on novel solutions to monitor AI/ML systems, covering the full AI/ML lifecycle and ecosystem
 * Take full ownership of existing observability infrastructure systems, making sure they are scalable, reliable and easy to use, and meanwhile improve the existing infrastructures with new features and functionality.
 * Follow and expand our vision to put the Roblox community first and get things done.
 * Take the long view to architect our next generation observability platform, ingesting PBs of log and tracing data everyday.
 * You will report to the Engineering Manager for Observability.
 * This is a Hybrid role located in our San Mateo headquarters. You are required to be in the office at HQ 3 days a week (Tues-Thurs). #LI-Hybrid