[Summer 2026] Software Engineer Intern at Roblox

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 Intern, we'll support you as you tackle the hardest problems in tech today – distributed systems, real-time communication, 3D co-experience, extensive data processing, social networking, rendering, physics, over the course of 12-weeks. Roblox's platform is experiencing unprecedented growth with millions of daily active users, and as an intern, you will be at the forefront of this exciting journey!

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You Will:

Join a supportive software engineering team and collaborate directly with top-tier engineers, receiving mentorship and guidance as you actively contribute to live projects.

Consistently deliver strong work to production while actively engaging in the software development process, from coding to testing and deploying it to production.

Take full responsibility for a project and see it through from beginning to end. This includes collaborating with diverse teams and presenting your work to peers and leaders across the company.

Work closely with a diverse range of teams, including Design, Product, Data, QA, and DevOps, to deliver cohesive products and features.

Investigate and experiment with cutting-edge technologies, like machine learning frameworks and large language models (LLMs), to solve complex problems and improve our engineering systems.

Actively participate in our team matching process, where you’ll have the opportunity work on innovative projects like Roblox’s search and discovery, economy ecosystem, game Engine, or infrastructure

You Are:

Pursuing an undergraduate/graduate degree in computer science, engineering or a related field

Working towards proficiency or proficient in one or more programming languages such as Go, Node.js, Ruby, Python, C++, Lua, Swift, C# or Java.

Passionate about games, user generated content, creator economies, and social networking.

Excited about learning and crafting great experiences as you work with your team to reach collective goals.

Please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time. You may redact age, date of birth, and dates of attendance/graduation from your resume if you prefer.

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 hourly rate could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Please note that not all benefits shown on this page are applicable to internship opportunities.

Hourly Pay Range

$62—$62 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.

[Summer 2026] Software Engineer Intern

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