Job brief: Senior Software Engineer, Reliability

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Roblox's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-13 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-13.
• The apply link opens careers.roblox.com, the address Roblox's board gives for this job.
• The same title for the same place was listed 1 other time on this board in the last 90 days: several openings, or a re-posted job.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

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

• Pay: $243,290 to $295,250 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: San Mateo, CA, United States · San Mateo, CA
• Posted: 2026-11-12

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

Level: Senior. The title says "Senior".

Must have

• Experience: you have a BS degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science or related engineering field with at least 4+ years of experience with added advantage…

Main duties

• Create libraries that promote fault-tolerance and resilience– like retries, circuit breakers, and adaptive concurrency limits.
• Build, automate and standardize process automation to create a "golden path" of tooling and platform support that powers the fundamental Roblox ecosystem.
• Create tooling that provides production guardrails, for example evaluating release candidate capacity with load testing tooling before deploying to production.
• Create performance monitoring services and observability towards understanding capacity issues and platform degradations.
• Create tooling that monitors production services and their changes, like generalized canarying services with alerting.

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs in San Mateo, CA: $256k a year (146 listings, 2 employers). This listing is 5% higher.
• Across Roblox's 253 open listings, 43% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Roblox hires

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