Senior Software Engineer - Consoles

Overview

Senior Software Engineer on the Consoles team, owning the console app foundation for Roblox on PlayStation and Xbox, driving complex client work end-to-end and raising the engineering quality bar.

What you'll do

• Shape and 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 Xbox and PlayStation counterparts to ensure feature parity and platform-specific excellence.

What you'll need

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

Nice to have

• Experience with Lua/React.
• Direct experience shipping on PlayStation or Xbox.

Details

• Location: headquarters in San Mateo, CA.
• Office presence: onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday.
• Annual base salary range: $196,750 to $243,290 USD.
• Full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and benefits.
• For US-based roles only: the Company may not be able to employ candidates who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.