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What this posting asks for

Level: Senior — The title says "Senior".

Main responsibilities

• Shape & 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 our Xbox and PlayStation counterparts to ensure feature parity and platform-specific excellence.
• 5+ years of experience building and shipping client software, with strong C++ proficiency; experience with Lua/React is a plus.
• Client platform expertise: hands-on experience delivering on console, desktop, or mobile. Direct experience shipping on PlayStation or Xbox is highly valued.
• Strong debugging instincts: you're comfortable profiling, tracing, and diagnosing hard problems across the full client stack, including platform-specific iss…
• Data fluency: you use metrics, logging, and experimentation to evaluate feature health, drive decisions, and measure player impact.
• Ownership and self-direction: you can take an ambiguous problem, break it down, and drive it to completion without heavy oversight

Competencies an interviewer will look for

• Technical skill Core
  In the posting: “As a Senior Software Engineer on the Consoles team, you'll be a driving technical force — leading complex client work end-to-end, raising the quality bar acr…” · “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.”
  Show it by: Names the tools, languages or systems used and how; Explains a technical choice and its trade-off.
• Customer focus Core
  In the posting: “The Consumer Apps Consoles team owns the console app foundation that makes Roblox feel fast, fluid, and reliable for millions of players and is dedicated to …” · “As a Senior Software Engineer on the Consoles team, you'll be a driving technical force — leading complex client work end-to-end, raising the quality bar acr…” · “5+ years of experience building and shipping client software, with strong C++ proficiency;”
  Show it by: Puts the customer's need in their own words; Shows a result for the customer, not only for the company.
• Attention to detail and quality Core
  In the posting: “As a Senior Software Engineer on the Consoles team, you'll be a driving technical force — leading complex client work end-to-end, raising the quality bar acr…” · “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.”
  Show it by: Gives an example of an error caught before it caused harm; Names the check or standard they used.
• Problem solving Core
  In the posting: “A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safe…” · “Strong debugging instincts: you're comfortable profiling, tracing, and diagnosing hard problems across the full client stack, including platform-specific iss…”
  Show it by: Describes a real problem, the options considered and the one chosen; Shows how the cause was found, not just the fix.
• Ownership and accountability Core
  In the posting: “As a Senior Software Engineer on the Consoles team, you'll be a driving technical force — leading complex client work end-to-end, raising the quality bar acr…” · “Ownership and self-direction: you can take an ambiguous problem, break it down, and drive it to completion without heavy oversight”
  Show it by: Takes a task from start to finish without being chased; Owns a mistake and what was changed after it.
• Data and analysis Core
  In the posting: “Translate ambiguous product ideas into well-scoped, high-quality engineering plans in close partnership with product, design, and data science.” · “Data fluency: you use metrics, logging, and experimentation to evaluate feature health, drive decisions, and measure player impact.”
  Show it by: Uses a number to describe the situation or the result; Explains what the data showed and what was done with it.
• Adaptability and learning Core
  In the posting: “Translate ambiguous product ideas into well-scoped, high-quality engineering plans in close partnership with product, design, and data science.” · “Ownership and self-direction: you can take an ambiguous problem, break it down, and drive it to completion without heavy oversight”
  Show it by: Describes learning something new quickly and using it; Shows a change of plan and how they adjusted.
• Communication Supporting
  In the posting: “Collaborative by nature: you communicate clearly, build trust across functions, and make the engineers around you better.”
  Show it by: Adapts the message to the listener; Gives an example of explaining something clearly in writing or speech.
• Teamwork and collaboration Supporting
  In the posting: “Collaborative by nature: you communicate clearly, build trust across functions, and make the engineers around you better.”
  Show it by: Says what they did inside a team, not only what 'we' did; Shows how a disagreement was handled.
• Leadership and mentoring Supporting
  In the posting: “Raise the engineering bar through rigorous code review, proactive mentorship of junior engineers, and the standards you set in your own code.”
  Show it by: Describes setting direction or a standard others followed; Names someone they coached and what changed for them.
• Planning and organisation Supporting
  In the posting: “Drive platform-level investments that benefit the broader engineering organization.”
  Show it by: Shows how priorities were set when everything was urgent; Mentions deadlines met and how.

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