Principal Software Engineer, Agent Infrastructure

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Principal Software Engineer, Agent Infrastructure in USA

Roblox
Full time
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USA
10/14/2026
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San Mateo, CA

Responsibilities

Own the design and implementation of Roblox’s core agent infrastructure and scale it for internal and external customers.
Ensure long-running agents remain reliable through deployments, restarts, and outages.
Run untrusted code in secure sandboxes, protect credentials, and control network access.
Define service-level objectives and observability for the agent platform.
Partner with Security, Engineering Efficiency, and Infrastructure teams on platform dependencies and architecture.
Mentor senior engineers, lead design reviews, and help advance agent-driven development of the platform.

Requirements

8+ years building and operating backend, distributed, or infrastructure systems in production, including systems designed to operate at scale.
Deep expertise in workflow orchestration, scalable backend infrastructure, agentic runtimes, secure sandboxing, or access control.
Hands-on production programming experience in Go, Python, Rust, or a similar language.
Experience experimenting with and operating autonomous agents against real systems.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field.
Preferred experience with sandbox and container isolation, Kubernetes hardening, network segmentation, egress control, Temporal, AWS, self-hosted models, Kubernetes production deployments, GitOps, and Argo CD.
Open-source contributions or experience building a product with real user traction is preferred.

Benefits

Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and benefits.
Office-based roles are onsite Tuesday through Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday.
For San Mateo headquarters roles, the posting provides an annual base salary range of $278,530–$345,040 USD.

Salary: $279k - $345k/yr

Roblox

Roblox's vision is to reimagine the way people come together. Our mission is to connect a billion people with optimism and civility. What is Roblox? Roblox is a platform where people come together virtually to share experiences. Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to ...

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