DistinguishedEngineer,LuauApplication

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 Distinguished Engineer will guide the development of the Luau layer of the Roblox app, used by well over 100M users daily, including libraries used by this app. The Luau layer of the app provides most of the client-side functionality outside of the actual game play. It is universal across eight platforms, including mobile, desktop, consoles, VR and TVs. You Will: Steward the development of the Luau layer of the Roblox app, including the libraries and frameworks used by it. Drive performance optimization of the Luau layer, including on devices with limited hardware capabilities (e.g., low end Android phones, Android TVs) or operating on low bandwidth. Accelerate feature development in the Luau app through improved developer experience and adoption of agentic product development. Drive increasing alignment between the Luau layer of the app and Luau technologies used by Roblox creators. Provide mentorship for other engineers, from junior to principal. You Have: 15+ years of experience in developing robust, cross-platform software frameworks and architectures. Experience with complex cross platform codebases implemented using TypeScript or similar languages and leveraging technologies such as React Nat