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Senior QA Engineer, Safety
Roblox Corporation · 🇺🇸 San Mateo, CA, United States
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 197 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 48 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Roblox Corporation paid sponsored hires in similar roles4 certified filings for “QA Engineer” (Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers) in CA: $155k–$224k, median $187k. Most were filed at wage level IV (50%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Roblox Corporation
The US Department of Labor certified 197 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 48 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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. About the Team The Social Engineering org builds the experiences that connect millions of people around the world: friends, messaging, communities, presence, and notifications. Quality is central to earning the trust of our community, and we're looking for someone to raise the bar for how we build and ship. About the Role We're hiring a Senior Quality Engineer to embed directly within Social Engineering, partnering with engineers, product managers, designers, and Trust & Safety teams. This is a step-level change agent role. You'll be expected to reshape how quality is built, measured, and automated, not just operate within the systems you inherit. You'll set direction, drive adoption of new ways of working, and resolve conflict independently, with AI-native engineering as a core lever. You Will: Reshape how quality works • Define and drive the quality strategy for your area, and replace processes, tooling, and release practices that limit speed or confidence • Identify systemic quality gaps across teams and lead initiatives from proposal through org-wide adoption • Set and evolve the quality bar: release criteria, SLOs, quality metrics, and testability standards other teams adopt Lead AI-driven quality engineering • Demonstrate deep, hands-on expertise in AI tooling and translate individual productivity gains into scalable, organization-wide capabilities, including AI-assisted test generation, failure triage, design and code reviews, and release-risk analysis. • Evaluate, pilot, and integrate AI tools and agentic workflows into CI/CD and daily engineering, with measurable results • Drive adoption: build champions, create enablement material, remove blockers, and track real usage and impact Build and automate at scale • Design and maintain scalable automation across API, service, integration, and end-to-end layers, integrated into CI/CD • Develop test strategies for distributed systems, covering concurrency, eventual consistency, backward compatibility, and failure modes • Validate behavior across mobile, desktop, console, and web, and run performance, load, and resilience testing Partner and influence without authority • Work with Trust & Safety, Privacy, and Policy partners to make safety, moderation, parental controls, and privacy requirements testable and verified • Make independent, risk-based prioritization calls, and bring recommendations and options rather than just problems when escalation is needed • Own the resolution of technical and cross-functional disagreements through data, clear trade-offs, and direct conversation • Mentor engineers and quality engineers and raise the capability of the people around you Learn from production • Analyze incidents, escaped defects, and telemetry to find root causes and drive preventive changes that stick You have: • 6+ years in quality engineering, SDET, or software engineering with a strong testing focus • Track record of changing how a team or org works, not just executing within it • Demons