Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.
At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.
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 safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
We're searching for an experienced and passionate Principal Engineer to join our UI Ecosystem team at Roblox! You will play a key role in shaping the future of UI development as a technical lead, working with cross-functional engineering stakeholders to define and execute the vision for the frameworks and UI components with which we build our flagship Roblox products.
Our team’s mission is to improve the performance & accelerate the development of features and improve the developer experience for our feature teams in the Roblox App and Roblox Studio, while ensuring accessible and consistent design. We aim to make developing flexible, performant UI a ✨delightful ✨ experience. You are opinionated architecturally and are able drive alignment between different stakeholders. You have a passion for crafting beautiful, accessible, and blazing fast interfaces that delight our users. This role will involve cross-functional collaboration and communication with other teams and our own designers and engineers, along with technical mentorship.
You Will
- Assess, recommend & bootstrap systematic changes for how we build UI
- Partner with feature developers to ship gold standard UI implementations
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, build, and maintain our design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across our products.
- Partner closely with designers to translate design concepts into functional, high-quality Luau code.
- Develop and maintain accessible UI components and patterns, ensuring compliance with relevant WCAG guidelines.
- Lead the development of new features and enhancements to our component library and associated tooling.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
- Conduct code reviews and provide mentorship to junior engineers.
- Stay up-to-date on the latest software development trends and technologies, particularly those relevant to frontend development and component-based UI frameworks.
You Have
- 8+ years of experience in software development.
- Strong understanding of design principles and best practices.
- Experience with frontend technologies and component-based UI frameworks (e.g., React).
- Experience with accessible design and development, a plus if that includes WCAG guidelines.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills - this role requires a lot of cross-org collaboration and support of other internal customers.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.
Annual Salary Range
$289,460—$338,270 USD
Roles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
You’ll Love:
- Industry-leading compensation package
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- A rewarding 401k program
- Flexible vacation policy (varies by exemption status)
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- At Roblox HQ:
- Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations for all candidates during the interview process.
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What We Do
Roblox is an immersive gaming and creation platform that offers people millions of ways to be together, inviting its community to explore, create and share endless unique experiences. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together — in a world that's safe, civil, and optimistic. To achieve this vision, we are building an innovative company that, together with the Roblox community, has the ability to strengthen our social fabric and support economic growth for people around the world.
Why Work With Us
Every day, Roblox employees tackle complex questions and drive incredible innovation. Join us in building the future of human connection and communication.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We are requiring employees to be in the office three days a week – with core days being Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. On Mondays and Fridays, employees may choose to work remotely, although the office will still be open.
