Principal Software Engineer - Financial Platform, Wallets

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.

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Wallets team, you will lead the technical design and execution of Roblox’s next-generation wallet system, enabling users to seamlessly hold and transact with both Fiat and Robux currencies.

You’ll architect a highly secure, scalable dual-wallet infrastructure that supports funding, earnings, transfers, withdrawals, and lays the groundwork for future regulated financial capabilities within the Roblox economy. You’ll collaborate closely with product, legal, finance, and other economy engineering teams to build the core of Roblox’s financial systems, powering real money movement at global scale in one of the world’s most dynamic digital marketplaces.

You Will:

• Drive architecture and standards across teams, and lead the design and delivery of a bank-grade wallet and money movement platform with strong guarantees of correctness, auditability and reliability

• Develop backend services that scale to billions of products and transactions.

• Work cross functionally with product managers, data scientists and designers to define requirements and roadmap

• Help recruit future talent for the team and mentor junior engineers

You Have:

• Genuine passion about building Roblox's Economy

• Focused on writing clear, readable, testable, modular, and monitored code

• A data-driven focus to provide quality metrics and monitoring

• Shipped large-scale, consumer-facing mobile and web applications

• Knowledge with REST, GRPC, API design patterns, and scalable containerized systems and microservices

• A Bachelor's degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science or related engineering field with at least 10+ years of hands-on experience

• Built or led production digital wallet/ledger systems where correctness and audit-ability mattered (e.g., transactions and money movement, reconciliation, KYC/KYB, payout/withdrawals and/or card issuing)

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
$293,800—$343,340 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.