Senior Software Engineer, Roblox
Machine Bootstrap
$189.1-233.8k
Eligible for equity compensation
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Online gaming & entertainment platform
Open for applications
Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$189.1-233.8k
Eligible for equity compensation
More information about location
3-5 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
- 4+ years of industry experience
- A deep interest in the problem space; no specific experience is necessary in this area of infrastructure,
- Preference to build autonomous systems over ops and repetitive tasks
- Interest and understanding of the importance of documentation for large scale systems
- Strong consideration for production health and experience working on reliable, sustainable production systems
- Customer, team, and quality oriented
- A problem solver with a focus on finding solutions
- An excellent communicator with strong team-playing abilities
- Diligent and highly organized
- Adaptable to fast-paced, evolving environments
- Committed to continual process improvement
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer in Roblox's Compute Group's Machine Bootstrap pod, you'll directly influence the evolution of our Private Cloud
- Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will build products to streamline provisioning and monitoring across our infrastructure, significantly improving capacity delivery, uptime, and OS security
- This role will be reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager, Machine Management
- While this role exposes you to the low-level components of our cloud and on-premise infrastructure, it is heavily focused on building products with a customer-centric approach
- You will focus on delivering exceptional user experiences to Compute’s customers by writing Golang controllers for Kubernetes and developing higher-level gRPC APIs
- This work abstracts the complexities of our data centers away from our Roblox Builders
- People from diverse technical backgrounds have succeeded in this role, and we value diversity in our team
- Develop and maintain a fleet wide machine daemon for efficient hardware/software monitoring, runtime updates, and secure machine access
- Write Golang controllers for Roblox's fleet lifecycle, ensuring smooth functioning at all times
- Handle OS installation, firmware provisioning, and secure recycling processes
- Build and maintain a robust framework for HW/OS/Kernel validation and performance tuning
- Provide abstraction across cloud and on-premise systems, supporting stateful services
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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