Senior Software Engineer- Creator Data Storage

As a Senior Software Engineer on Creator Services Data, you’ll be building the next generation Data Storage systems that power the millions of experiences on Roblox! We own the mission critical Data Stores, Memory Stores, and Badges services as well as deliver pioneering new observability dashboards to Creators for cloud services across the Roblox platform. Through our full stack projects, you will gain a deep understanding and a chance to build software solutions from the infrastructure layer, through data storage and data pipelines, microservices, telemetry, client software, web development, and UI!

You Will:

• Identify improvements in existing products and craft new cloud services to support our Creator Community.
• Build state-of-the-art data storage systems including infrastructure, serving layers, clients, and web APIs.
• Expand the internal and customer facing cloud service observability platform through metrics collection, data pipelines, intelligent analytics, data visualization, and dashboards.
• Work with our users (Creators) to identify product gaps and bugs and handle customer emergencies.
• Provide on-call support for our Data products including production alerts and outages.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical and non-technical guidance through design and code reviews, joint projects, 1:1s, and peer feedback.
• Contribute and collaborate on a multi-functional team including UX design, product management, project management, developer relations, documentation, customer support, and other engineering teams.

You Have:

• Required
  • 2+ years experience building and maintaining (not just using) data storage systems (relational databases, key/value stores, blob stores, etc)
  • 5+ years backgound in software development building with public clouds (AWS, Azure, and GCP), microservices and distributed systems
  • 5+ years programming in C# and/or C++ (ideally both)
  • 5+ years designing, implementing, testing, and deploying robust, scalable, and well documented production-grade code
  • 5+ years experience working on agile, fast-paced, high-impact software teams
  • 2+ years leading junior engineers and new graduates on complex software engineering projects
• Desired (one or more of)
  • Prior experience building big data pipelines or batch processing systems (MapReduce, Hadoop, Flink, Spark, Flume)
  • Prior experience programming computer games, particularly in Lua/Luau
  • Prior knowledge of data science, data analytics, machine learning, or AI
  • Prior experience building graphical user interfaces, dashboards, or web application front ends

You Are:

• Innovative: We strive for novel solutions that bridge the technical needs of Roblox with the creative needs of our developer community. This typically involves tackling competing objectives and thinking creatively.
• Passionate: We are looking for new team members who are passionate about data storage technology, computer games, and software development. We are excited about building new products that will redefine the future of human online interaction.
• Versatile: The Data Pod is expanding its scope beyond providing low level storage solutions to building higher level services such as User Profiles and LiveOps Analytics. We are also working on projects such as Observability and Data Insights. You need to be ready to learn new programming languages and tech stacks as we evolve.
• Responsible: Data Storage services cannot go down and cannot lose data. You are committed to join a team that strives for a 100% uptime and data durability.
• Team Oriented: You are ready to both guide and learn from others. You will set the standard on team partnership and communication. You exemplify Roblox Values and Principles.