Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Roblox
Storage
$218.5-283.8k
Online gaming and entertainment platform
Job no longer available
Online gaming and entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$218.5-283.8k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect a billion people with optimism and civility.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in designing & operating large-scale distributed systems handling billions of real-time requests per second. Deep Knowledge in one or more following technologies: Caching (Redis), Kafka , Distributed database (CockroachDB), OLAP , Object Storage system
- Experience with system configuration management with familiarity in Automation tools like Chef or Terraform
- Experience in building automation on top of container orchestrators like Kubernetes or Nomad and service discovery systems like Consul
- Experience with programming languages, like Python or Go
- Experience with telemetry stacks, like Grafana, Prometheus monitoring, AlertManager and Kibana
- Experience with Linux systems and shells
- BS degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science, with at least 5 years of hands on experience
What the job involves
- As a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer for Storage Platform, you'll support Roblox's storage platform by designing and maintaining our large-scale OLTP data store, cache, Kafka and Object Storage infrastructure while contributing to our internal Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings
- Have a role in designing and implementing our internal Infra-as-a-Service offerings on top of a container orchestrator platform
- Specialized in reliability engineering and support multiple distributed Storage services
- Build automation and frameworks to manage platform infrastructure, services and handle different software or hardware faults
- Measure and optimize system availability, reliability and performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and improving
- Improve service Service level agreement 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
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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