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Principal Software Engineer (App Performance)

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Principal Software Engineer (App Performance)

Roblox

Principal Software Engineer (App Performance)

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Contract type:

Permanent

Salary:

$295,250 – $345,040 / year

Location:

United States

Work mode:

Onsite

Published on:

22 October 2026

What they need


  • The Consumer App Performance team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to spearhead stability and performance improvements
  • You will work across system-level, cross-platform C++ game engine, and front-end codebase, partnering with teams across the company to identify bad behavior patterns and performance bottlenecks, ship measurable improvements, and prevent regressions over time
  • Our team owns the end-to-end performance of Roblox, from speed and responsiveness to efficiency and stability, across all devices and platforms we support: mobile, desktop, and console
  • Drive research of new opportunities, build and execute roadmaps to improve stability and resilience of Roblox across all target platforms
  • Design novel solutions to prevent and mitigate crashes, hangs, and other interruptions that hurt user experience
  • Build robust defense mechanisms for early detection of stability anomalies through real-time monitoring, alerting, and CI/CD automation
  • Work with stakeholders across Engineering, Product, and Design to align on priorities, tradeoffs, and rollout plans; ensure performance improvements support the user experience
  • Deliver improvements and guardrails that scale across mobile, desktop, and console, with informed tradeoffs for mobile constraints- Systems thinking: ability to build systems that work and keep on working reliably (measurement, monitoring, regression prevention)
  • Comfort with ambiguity: able to dive into unfamiliar codebases, unblock yourself, and take projects from greenfield/MVP → production-grade
  • 10+ years of experience: working with complex client application codebases, proficiency in C++, knowledge of Lua or other scripting languages is a plus
  • Deep understanding of client platforms: hands-on experience in performance profiling and triaging issues on one or more of mobile or desktop platforms, deep understanding of platform API and best practices to implement performance and robust code

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