Distinguished Engineer, Consumer Apps

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.

Consumer Apps Technical Director

The Distinguished Engineer will play a pivotal role in building out a platform expansion strategy to help scale the Roblox UI. As the Distinguished Engineer within our User Group, you will cultivate innovation while creating a single middle-layer framework that will work across all devices (console, mobile, desktop, VR, etc.). This unique position requires a dynamic individual with comprehensive understanding of middle-layer frameworks and system engineering principles.
What you'll do:

• Steward a robust, scalable, and device-agnostic middle-layer framework that can abstract away the underlying hardware and software complexities.
• Ensure the framework provides a consistent and intuitive API for developers to build applications that can run on multiple platforms without significant modifications.
• Optimize the framework's performance and resource utilization to deliver a smooth and responsive user experience on all supported platforms.
• Cultivate a collaborative and innovative environment, encouraging team members to share their expertise and contribute to the overall success of the project.
• Provide comprehensive documentation, training, and support to the development teams using the framework, ensuring a flawless integration and adoption across the organization.

What we're looking for:

• 15+ years of experience in developing robust, cross-platform software frameworks and architectures.
• Extensive background in building cross browser, device independent interfaces, & platforms (i.e., iOS, Android, console).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Excellent collaboration skills to work effectively with different teams, gain a thorough understanding of challenges, customer requirements, and various device types and platforms, and to create creative solutions that address common needs.
• Strong background in UI architecture, libraries and frameworks that can adapt to multiple technologies, operating systems, and platforms without the need for separate implementations.
• Experience building fast and reusable, UI components under MVC or MVVM frameworks
• Proficiency in front-end development, with a deep understanding of how to translate generic application requirements into platform-specific native code while maintaining a consistent user experience.

Who you are:

• A software engineering leader experienced in cross-platform development challenges and proven abilities to create innovative solutions.
• A strategic mind-set and problem solver who can anticipate and address the evolving needs of the organization and its customers across devices and platforms.
• A highly skilled professional with excellent communication and collaboration abilities, capable of connecting and aligning diverse teams with varying technical expertise.
• A passionate leader who inspires and motivates a team of engineers with a strong work ethic to deliver high-quality, scalable, and maintainable software solutions.
• Committed to staying up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies, and continuously improving the framework to ensure its long-term relevance.

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 as described on this page .

Annual Salary Range

$397,460-$455,720 USD

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

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 to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.