Senior Software Engineer, Roblox
Service Mesh
$243.3-295.3k
+ Equity
More information about location
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Online gaming & entertainment platform
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Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$243.3-295.3k
+ Equity
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
- A professional with 3+ years of experience in distributed systems, with strong expertise in service mesh technologies (Istio, Envoy, Consul, or Linkerd). You understand the tradeoffs of sidecar-based architectures at scale
- Deeply knowledgeable of service mesh concepts: traffic management, service discovery, mTLS, observability, and routing policies
- Experienced running Kubernetes in production and familiar with the K8s networking model
- Comfortable working with Envoy proxy internals, xDS APIs, and control plane architectures
- Excellent at designing large-scale distributed systems that span multiple clusters, regions, and runtime environments
- Fluent in Go, C/C++, or Rust
- Experienced with on-call rotations and approach infrastructure with a “reliability-first” mindset
What the job involves
- Roblox is reimagining the way people come together to connect, create, and express themselves. To support our massive scale, we are powered by thousands of microservices. The Application Networking team connects and secures these services, building ingress gateways, managing the service mesh, and enabling seamless communication across Roblox’s hybrid on-prem and cloud infrastructure
- We are executing on Cloud Bursting, a strategic initiative to enable Roblox’s core services to transparently burst from on-prem data centers to the cloud, allowing us to handle historical peak concurrent players and survive regional failures. You will join our Service Mesh team to build the networking fabric that makes this possible
- Design and build the service mesh infrastructure that enables communication across Roblox’s hybrid Kubernetes and Nomad environments, supporting billions of daily requests
- Drive the integration of service mesh with Kubernetes, ensuring reliable sidecar injection, mTLS, traffic policies, and observability for production workloads
- Build the networking foundation for Cloud Bursting, enabling Roblox’s top services to transparently burst from on-prem data centers to the cloud, with service discovery, traffic management, and locality-aware routing across environments
- Partner with internal application teams to understand their connectivity pain points, ensuring the service mesh provides a frictionless 'paved road' for thousands of developers
- Collaborate with the Gateway and CNI teams to deliver a unified, multi-cluster service fabric that abstracts cluster and regional boundaries from application developers
- Serve as a primary escalation point for complex service mesh issues, troubleshooting across Envoy sidecars, Istio control plane, and the underlying network stack
- Act as a senior voice on the team, mentoring junior engineers and promoting best practices in testing, deployment, and reliability engineering
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.
The platform has faced scrutiny over user safety, but responded by strengthen parental controls and launching initiatives like its "Parents Council". This move to address these issues, atop its strong financial performance and record payouts to developers, showcase Roblox's trajectory as one of innovation and impressive growth.
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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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