Job brief: Principal Software Engineer, Creator Analytics

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• Listed on Roblox's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-14 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-14.
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• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $345,040 to $399,420 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: San Mateo, CA, United States · San Mateo, CA
• Posted: 2026-11-13

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Principal".

Must have

• Must-have qualifications (or equivalent)
• 10+ years of professional software engineering, with 5+ years designing, building and operating large-scale data systems in production.

Conditions

• Take part in the team's PagerDuty on-call rotation.

Main duties

• Set the technical vision and architecture.
• Own the multi-year architecture and roadmap for Optimize's streaming, batch and serving systems.
• Decide what to build, buy, consolidate or retire, and make the trade-offs between freshness, correctness and cost explicit.
• Write the tech strategy docs and lead the design reviews that set direction across the team.
• Be accountable for data correctness and reliability at scale.

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs in San Mateo, CA: $255k a year (135 listings, 2 employers). This listing is 46% higher.
• Across Roblox's 251 open listings, 43% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Roblox hires

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