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Principal Software Engineer, Agent Infrastructure

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Principal Software Engineer, Agent Infrastructure in USA new

  • 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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