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Senior Software Engineer - Storage

Roblox

Hybrid
San Mateo, CA
Full-time
Senior
5+ yrs
$243k–$295kPosted 1h ago

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Job description

Roblox is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - Storage — a full-time, based in San Mateo, CA role ($243k–$295k). Apply directly on Roblox's careers page below.

Senior Software Engineer - Storage

Location: San Mateo, CA, United States

Department: Software Engineering

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 Senior Software Engineer for the storage team within infra org, you’ll be innovating & running large scale distributed systems in-house in order to meet Roblox’s ever increasing challenges on storage business needs, such as caching, message queue. 

You will:

  • Have a leading role in designing, implementing and running our internal Infra-as-a-Service offerings on top of a container orchestrator platform
  • Improve & scale our large distributed 24x7 services and deliver features with urgency, cost efficiency, 4+ 9s availability and elastic scalability 
  • Design and build frameworks/tools to automate development, testing, cluster management and monitoring of mission critical services
  • Collaborate with partner teams, producing project work plans, measurable metrics, delivery milestones , rollout plan, oncall alerts and runbooks while leveraging existing technology stack 
  • Give a high level of attention to create high quality & reusable code , keep development continuously without compromising site reliability
  • Work with stakeholders to influence the strategy for the next generation of product features and system capabilities, identifying the best practical way to deliver impactful functionalities 
  • Improve SLA of the offering services and end-end rollout time of our suite of software solutions

You Have:

  • Strong experience in designing, delivering & operating large-scale distributed systems handling billions of real-time requests per second. 
  • Strong experience & builder mindset to run large scale Active/Active distributed systems on top of container orchestrators like Kubernetes or Nomad and service discovery systems like Consul
  • Strong experience with programming languages like Go, Java or C++
  • Strong scripting and test automation abilities
  • Experience with telemetry stacks, like Grafana, Prometheus monitoring, AlertManager and Kibana
  • BS degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science, with at least 5 years of hands on experience 

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 as described on this page.

Annual Salary Range
$243,290$295,250 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.

For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the salary for Senior Software Engineer - Storage at Roblox?

The estimated salary range for Senior Software Engineer - Storage at Roblox is $243,000 - $295,000 USD per year.

What skills are required for Senior Software Engineer - Storage at Roblox?

The required skills for Senior Software Engineer - Storage at Roblox include: Go, Java, C++, Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana.

What is the seniority level for Senior Software Engineer - Storage at Roblox?

Senior Software Engineer - Storage at Roblox is a Senior level position.

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