Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Roblox
Compute Orchestration
$192.9-238.5k
+ Equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Online gaming & entertainment platform
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Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$192.9-238.5k
+ Equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help connect and bring together people from around the world through play.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: you have a BS degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science or related engineering field with proven track record including at least 6 years as an SRE or Software Engineer
- Passion for systems: You have experience and good habits around building software and tools and getting them adopted. Your system's focus advises a view of code needing to be deeply reliable
- A Partner: You know that the best tools integrate broadly with the tooling ecosystem. You approach partners and processes with curiosity and seek to understand a problem deeply before you start coding
- A Coder: you have experience writing common programming languages (e.g., Go, Java, C#, Rust)
- Passionate about problem-solving, finding creative work solutions, and addressing unexpected challenges as part of a team
- Problem Solver: you ask the right questions to tackle issues within your expertise and you use data to test your theories
- Planner: You have experience in large project lifecycles. You have experience working in sprints, breaking down complex tasks into achievements, and reporting status to keep project scheduling accurate
What the job involves
- As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on the Infra Compute Orchestration (ICO) team, you will create, support, and evolve the infrastructure at Roblox as we build out Roblox's private cloud. ICO's mission is to own and manage our underlying orchestration systems along with elements of service discovery, secrets management and related software layers
- Create systems & libraries that promote fault-tolerance and resilience– like retries, circuit breakers, and adaptive concurrency limits
- Build, automate and standardize process automation to create a "golden path" of tooling and platform support that powers the fundamental Roblox ecosystem
- Create tooling that provides production guardrails, for example evaluating release candidate capacity with load testing tooling before deploying to production
- Create performance monitoring services and observability towards understanding capacity issues and platform degradations
- Create tooling that monitors production services and their changes, like generalized canarying services with alerting
- Analyze systems and system designs for production readiness
Our take
While online gaming is no longer a revolutionary concept, Roblox has established itself as a leader in the industry by creating a gaming toolbox that encourages quality game creation, which it pays developers for.
In addition to standard games, the platform offers virtual worlds and other experiences to explore and interact with. Its platform provides an online ecosystem for millions to create, socialize, chat, and explore immersive experiences with friends. In fact, in the US its used by two-thirds of children aged 9 to 12.
The experiences on the platform are made by Roblox's over three million creators, and are available on a range of devices from PC to Xbox to Oculus, and more. The company has grown at an impressive rate, and has been keen to adopt new developments in the tech world, for example with its real-time AI translation for players to interact outside their native tongue.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$520m
SERIES H
Feb 2020
$150m
SERIES G
Total funding: $922.8m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401k
- Flexible vacation policy
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- 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
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
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Leadership
David Baszucki
(CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford before founding Knowledge Revolution in 1990, where they spent 9 years as CEO. They worked as VP of MSC.Software for 2 years, and started Roblox in 2005.
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