Senior Software Engineer, Video Rendering

The job

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Job description

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.

The Video Team is responsible for adaptive video playback and rendering, screen recording, camera capture, live video, video ads, video transcoding, and moderation. We develop on mobile, desktops, consoles, web, and our backend microservices platform. This is a hands-on role focused on Android with the opportunity to work across all the areas. This role is not a video codec research or implementation position; we only use industry-standard codecs.

You Will:

• Design, develop, use AI/LLMs, optimize, and debug video capture, encoding, playback, and rendering focused on the Android platform using NDK APIs like Vulkan and AMediaCodec.
• Innovate, architect, and implement our vision for video in a 3D immersive environment.
• Have the opportunity to work across our platforms (desktop, mobile, and consoles).
• Have the opportunity to work on our backend microservices
• Collaborate with different teams all across Roblox to develop new uses of video.
• Be guided to create state of the art video tech for gaming industry

You Are:

• An experienced engineer with 8+ years of designing, developing, and debugging complex C++ applications running on Android.
• An expert with the wide variety of Android devices from junk to gold.
• Proficient with using Vulkan or OpenGL on Android in a performance oriented environment
• Knowledgeable within the video domain. You know the difference between AVC, HEVC, and AV1. You understand how video is compressed, delivered, and decoded. You don't have to look up the meaning of YUV or HLS. You love to pick up new technologies as the landscape evolves.

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.

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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The city

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How San Mateo compares. Among the 145 largest places in California, San Mateo is #72 by population, #132 for rent (#1 = cheapest), #28 for college degrees (#1 = most), #29 for household income (#1 = highest). Its county, San Mateo County, is #2 of 58 counties for average pay ($196,441).

The place in numbers

San Mateo has 103,105 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 0.3% of the population of California. It covers 12 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 8,497 people per square mile. The median age is 38.3, about the same as the state median (38.3 against 37.9).

Housing

The median gross rent is $3,077 a month (rent plus utilities), 51% above the state median ($3,077 against $2,036). Over a year that is 24.1% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $1,618,700, which is 10.5 times the median household income ($153,504); a ratio above 5 usually means buying is out of reach without savings or a second income. 49.9% of households own their home, 11% below the state average (49.9% against 55.9%).

Work and pay

The San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metropolitan area has 2,373,920 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $74,260 a year, 46% above the national median ($74,260 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (226,320 jobs, median $62,120); management (223,100 jobs, median $176,340); business and financial operations (207,030 jobs, median $112,960). The area is most specialised in computer and mathematical (1.9 times) and life, physical, and social science (1.8 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($176,340) and computer and mathematical ($167,770). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of San Mateo County was 3.9%. 68.9% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in San Mateo County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 57.7% drive alone, 4.9% use public transit, 2.7% walk, 24.8% work from home. 15.8% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 19% below the state average (15.8% against 19.4%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.

People and education

57.8% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 56% above the state share (57.8% against 37.1%). 36.2% of residents were born outside the United States, 34% above the state share (36.2% against 27.0%). The poverty rate is 8.2%, 32% below the state rate (8.2% against 12.0%).

Climate

The warmest month is Sep, averaging 61°F (16.0°C), and the coolest is Jan at 51°F (10.7°C). About 515 mm (20 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Dec is the wettest month (115 mm) and Jul the driest (2 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

Nearby cities to compare

Closest cities in this guide: Foster City (3 miles, rent 14% higher); Belmont (3 miles, rent 7% lower); Burlingame (4 miles, rent 9% lower); San Carlos (5 miles, rent 7% lower). Rent differences are against San Mateo; use the Compare tab to put any two cities side by side.

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Median rent in San Mateo is $3,077 a month and median household income $153,504 (ACS 2020–2024).

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• City and county figures: Census Bureau ACS 2020–2024, BEA, BLS QCEW and LAUS, NASA POWER climatology; distances from Census Gazetteer coordinates.

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• Census Bureau American Community Survey (via Census Reporter)
• BEA GDP by state and Regional Price Parities
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