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Software Engineer, Notifications

San Mateo, CAOnsiteFull TimeEntry-level (exp-based)$153,120–$196,750 /yrPosted 14 days agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • notifications
  • backend services
  • distributed systems
  • large-scale data pipelines
  • analytical mindset
  • data-driven

Nice to have

  • full-stack services
  • onboarding new notification types
  • candidate expansion
  • ranking and filtering
  • notification presentation
  • reachability

Role summary

Roblox is seeking a Software Engineer for its Notifications team. This role involves building and operating systems that deliver timely notifications to millions of users across various channels like push, in-app, email, and toast. Responsibilities include designing, shipping, and measuring features, working with cross-functional partners, and scaling notification pipelines. The role also involves iterating on recommended notifications, running A/B experiments to improve engagement, and contributing to developer-facing APIs and operational excellence. Candidates should have 1-3 years of experience in backend or full-stack services, distributed systems, or large-scale data pipelines, with an analytical and data-driven mindset.

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 Software Engineer on the Notifications team, you'll build and operate the systems that deliver timely, relevant notifications to millions of Roblox users across push, in-app stream, email, and toast. You'll design, ship, and measure your own features, working with product, design, data science, and ML partners. If you're data-driven and care about getting the right message to the right person, you'll be right at home on this team!

You Will:

  • Build and scale the pipeline that routes and delivers notifications across various channels, including onboarding new notification types for teams across Roblox
  • Ship and iterate on recommended notifications: candidate expansion, ranking and filtering, and notification presentation
  • Run and analyze A/B experiments to improve reachability, engagement, and long-term retention
  • Contribute to developer-facing notification APIs and operational excellence, including observability and on-call
  • You Have:

  • 1–3 years of industry experience
  • Experience building backend or full-stack services
  • Experience with distributed systems or large-scale data pipelines
  • An analytical mindset, with the ability to use data to understand the impact of your work
  • Respect for your teammates and a commitment to fostering a collaborative, inclusive environment
  • 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$153,120—$196,750 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.

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