Senior Software Engineer, Automation Tools
Roblox · San Mateo, CA, United States
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**Senior Software Engineer, Automation Tools** Roblox is building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience to life. The App Test team builds the test automation platform that enables Roblox engineers to deliver reliable, high-quality experiences across the Roblox Universal App. As a **Senior Software Engineer on the App Test team**, you’ll design, build, and scale tools and services that power the test automation lifecycle—helping engineers author, select, execute, debug, maintain, and triage tests efficiently, while evolving the platform toward an **AI-native testing experience**. --- ## What you’ll do - **Build and scale test automation infrastructure:** Design, implement, and evolve frameworks, runners, orchestration services, device-farm integrations, and supporting infrastructure for end-to-end testing across Roblox’s supported platforms. - **Advance the AI-native test lifecycle:** Develop intelligent tooling to improve test authoring, selection, execution, maintenance, and failure triage—reducing manual effort and making testing more accessible. - **Develop test orchestration and intelligence:** Connect test planning, selection, execution, and failure analysis to use infrastructure more efficiently and provide faster feedback. - **Enable intelligent test selection:** Identify the most relevant tests for code changes and releases, balancing coverage, confidence, execution time, and infrastructure cost. - **Shift quality earlier in the development lifecycle:** Integrate automated quality checks and actionable feedback into development and CI/CD workflows. - **Drive projects end to end:** Own initiatives from problem definition through design, implementation, deployment, adoption, measurement, and continuous improvement. - **Collaborate across engineering:** Partner with application, platform, QA, infrastructure, and developer productivity teams to build scalable solutions. --- ## What you have - **Software engineering experience:** Experience designing, building, testing, and operating production software; proven ability to solve complex problems in large codebases. - **Programming fundamentals:** Strong skills in **C++**, **Python**, **Go**, or another modern language; emphasis on maintainable, reliable, well-tested code. - **Ownership and collaboration:** Ability to take ownership, communicate technical decisions clearly, and deliver improvements for engineers using your tools. --- ## Nice to have - Experience with cross-platform test automation frameworks such as **Appium**, **Selenium**, or comparable tools (mobile, desktop, or game testing). - Experience applying **LLMs/agents/AI** to developer tools (test authoring, intelligent test selection, maintenance, failure analysis, or automated debugging). - Experience with large-scale development workflows and integrating automated quality checks into the development lifecycle. --- ## Pay & location (HQ roles) - **Annual Salary Range:** **$196,750 — $243,290 USD** - Actual base pay depends on factors such as background, training, experience, location, business needs, and market demand. Equity and benefits are also available. --- ## Work schedule & equal opportunity - Onsite roles are **Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday**, with optional presence on **Monday and Friday** (unless otherwise noted). - Roblox is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations during the recruiting process. *Note: For US-based roles only, Rob
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