Software Engineer, Roblox

Storage

$153.1-196.8k

+ Equity

SQL

Kubernetes

Java

Kafka

Redis

Postgres

Cassandra

Kibana

C++

MySQL

Rust

Prometheus

Grafana

DynamoDB

Junior, Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

3+ days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)

Online gaming and entertainment platform

Posted today

Online gaming and entertainment platform

1001+ employees

B2CGamingEntertainmentCommunity

Posted today

$153.1-196.8k

+ Equity

SQL

Kubernetes

Java

Kafka

Redis

Postgres

Cassandra

Kibana

C++

MySQL

Rust

Prometheus

Grafana

DynamoDB

Junior, Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

3+ days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)

1001+ employees

B2CGamingEntertainmentCommunity

Company mission

To connect a billion people with optimism and civility.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Strong interest designing & delivering large-scale distributed systems handling millions of real-time requests per second
Data management knowledge in one or more following technologies: RDBMS (CockroachDB, SQL Server, PostGres, MySQL, RDB) Caching(Redis), Kafka , KV store(DynamoDB, Cassandra), OLAP(ClickHouse), Object Storage (Ceph) is a plus
Experience building deployment pipelines on top of container orchestrators like Kubernetes or Nomad and service discovery systems like Consul
Experience with programming languages like Go, Rust, Java or C++
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, 1-3 years of hands on experience

What the job involves

Roblox's Cache team is building a next-generation caching solution designed to deliver sub-millisecond average latency, horizontal scalability, and high efficiency—all at a drastically lower cost
Our ultimate vision is to shape a caching infrastructure capable of supporting 1 billion Daily Active Users while reducing costs by 90%. We are turning hours of onboarding and capacity expansion into seconds, freeing service owners entirely from managing cluster lifecycles
As a Software Engineer on the Cache team (part of the Infra Storage org), you will innovate and operate large-scale, in-house distributed systems to solve Roblox's ever-growing caching challenges
You will report directly to the Engineering Manager for the Cache team
Partner with Security, Product, and Engineering teams to collect requirements, drive and influence the strategy to define the data security for all of Roblox storage systems, including OLTP databases, Object store, Queue, Search etc
Have a leading role in designing, implementing and running our storage Infra-as-a-Service offerings, particularly hardening the data security and availability aspects
Improve & scale our large distributed 24x7 services and deliver features with urgency, cost efficiency, zero down time and high reliability
Design and build frameworks or tools to automate development, testing deployment, management and monitoring of mission critical services
Collaborate with partner teams, producing project work plans, measurable metrics, delivery milestones, rollout plan, on-call 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
Improve SLA of the offering services and end-end rollout time of our suite of software solutions

Our take

Online gaming may be a well-established space, but Roblox has distinguished itself as a leader by empowering its community to build, share, and profit from their own creations, turning game development into an accessible, rewarding ecosystem for millions of users.

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.

While the platform does face scrutiny over users safety (particularly given its young audience) the company's efforts to strengthen parental controls and open dialogue through initiatives like its new Parents Council signal a growing commitment to addressing these challenges. At the same time, its financial performance and creator-focused investments underscore a business in very strong health. With record payouts to developers, an expanding older player base, and a platform that increasingly rewards creative talent, Roblox's trajectory remains one of innovation and impressive growth.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

25% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.8)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)

Jan 2021

$520m

SERIES H

Feb 2020

$150m

SERIES G

Total funding: $922.8m

Company HQ

South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA

Leadership

David Baszucki

(Founder & 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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