Principal Software Engineer, Roblox
Stateless Jobs Platform, Core Services
$345-399.4k
+ Equity compensation
More information about location
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Online gaming and entertainment platform
Open for applications
Online gaming and entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$345-399.4k
+ Equity compensation
More information about location
Office located in San Mateo, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect a billion people with optimism and civility.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience building web services using Golang or similar language
- Experience building and operating K8’s clusters
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals (control plane, reconciliation loops, scheduling, networking)
- Experience building large scale distributed systems with focus on scalability, reliability, and availability. Experience building or operating control-plane or orchestration systems (e.g., schedulers, workflow engines, or compute platforms)
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems fundamentals such as leader election, event-driven architectures, messaging/queuing, or distributed state management
- Experience designing systems that handle multi-region orchestration, failover, disaster recovery, or large-scale reliability challenges
- Experience with Oncall and in troubleshooting live site issues. Experience leading cross team greenfield projects
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Experience writing Kubernetes Operators or custom controllers using Operator-SDK or control runtime
What the job involves
- The Core Services team manages the core infrastructure and API stack and builds high throughput microservices that powers
- These services need to be fast, reliable and highly scalable as they have a huge impact on the day-to-day experience of every Roblox user
- In addition, the team owns shared libraries, infrastructure microservices, and the web infrastructure used by all other Roblox full-stack feature teams
- We ship with testable and configurable features that allow for rapid experimentation, data collection, and optimize for performance and user engagement
- From serving basic user information to populating content into in-experience
- Core Services is integral to the Roblox experience
- We are building a massive-scale, multi-region platform designed to power the next generation of global real-time experiences
- At the intersection of Cloud Engineering and AI Infrastructure, you will build the foundation for a platform that supports millions of concurrent users, defining how stateless jobs are executed at a scale that pushes the boundaries of standard open-source tooling
- As the orchestrator for our global inference and microservices footprint, our platform provides a "deploy and forget" experience for critical workloads
- You won't just be managing clusters; you will be building the custom control plane that automates scheduling, scaling, and recovery across a hybrid-cloud environment, ensuring our infrastructure remains resilient regardless of where it runs
- Build the Orchestration Engine: Design and develop custom Kubernetes Operators and Controllers in Go to automate the entire lifecycle of high-throughput, mission-critical stateless workloads
- Architect Hybrid-Cloud Mobility: Create systems that enable workloads to move seamlessly between on-premise and public cloud environments, ensuring high availability and automated failover during regional outages
- Extend the Kubernetes Control Plane: Write performant reconciliation loops and Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) to handle complex scheduling logic and resource optimization for massive CPU and GPU-intensive fleets
- Empower Developer Velocity: Build high-level platform abstractions and automation that allow service owners to deploy global-scale code without needing to manage the underlying container orchestration
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
25% employee growth in 12 months
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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