Roblox

Senior Software Engineer, Foundation

San Mateo, CA US
USD 218k - 283k
Go Redis Vue.js Microservices GraphQL Kafka JavaScript React Spark Hadoop AngularJS gRPC API Python Java SQL
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Description

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.

We have multiple Principal and Senior engineer openings. As a part of Infrastructure Foundation Software team you will drive the evolution and revolution of Roblox foundation tooling system to manage millions of private and public infrastructure resources to support hundreds of millions of users every month. You will define, test, monitor, and write tools to run our infrastructure while driving down the TCO.

Come join us!

You will:

  • Design & develop systems for infrastructure cost metering, attribution, analytics and management
  • Build performance tooling & generate recommendations to improve our infrastructure efficiency
  • Design & develop systems to support infrastructure capacity planning
  • Improve operational & analytical systems for data center planning and operations

You have:

  • BA/BS in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, or another technical field.
  • 6+ years of experience building containerized systems and microservices and shipping high-quality products to production.
  • 6+ years of experience building REST or gRPC or GraphQL-based APIs with Python, Go, C#, or Java.
  • Experience working with SQL and NoSQL/NewSQL databases.
  • Experience working with caching solutions such as Memcached, Redis, or similar technologies.
  • Technical leadership: You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical solutions. Your technical expertise influences product direction and you foster a culture of technical excellence.
  • Passion for building products for internal stakeholders.
  • Knowledge in on-premise data center or cloud capacity & cost management is a plus.
  • Experience building data pipelines with Kafka, Flink, Hive, Presto, Spark, Hadoop, data warehouse or other data engineering technologies is a plus.
  • Experience building web apps using a JavaScript framework such as React, AngularJS, or Vue.js is a plus.
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 salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.  All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.
Annual Salary Range
$218,540$283,780 USD

You’ll Love: 

  • Industry-leading compensation package
  • Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • A rewarding 401k program
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy 
  • Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
  • At Roblox HQ: 
    • Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
    • Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
    • Annual CalTrain Go Pass

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. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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