Principal Software Engineer, Roblox
Storage
$283.8-331.6k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Online gaming & entertainment platform
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Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$283.8-331.6k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 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
- Strong experience designing & delivering large-scale distributed systems handling millions of real-time requests per second
- Deep 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
- Strong experience building deployment pipelines on top of container orchestrators like Kubernetes or Nomad and service discovery systems like Consul
- Strong experience with programming languages like Rust, Go, Java or C++
- Strong 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, with at least 7 years of hands on experience
What the job involves
- Roblox storage team plays a fundamental role in enabling the company’s success by designing and running highly scalable and secure data storage systems across geo-regions globally
- As a Principal Software Engineer on the team, you will lead the development of next-generation data security and availability architecture, designing distributed software and tools to manage storage systems that support exabyte-scale data and handle hundreds of millions of transactions per second
- Additionally, this role is highly multi-functional, requiring close collaboration with analytics, security, and product teams to understand customer requirements and develop integrated solutions
- 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, oncall 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
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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