Backend Engineer, Data Access & EaaS — Scale Platform

Roblox Corporation; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 153,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

Roblox Corporation in San Mateo, CA is seeking an outstanding engineer to join our Data Access team within Infra / Storage. You will help build EaaS, a large-scale OLTP platform powering millions of QPS across hundreds of services, enabling safe, productive access to distributed databases and caches.

As part of a cross-functional team, you will design, implement, and operate mission-critical infrastructure, improve reliability and scalability, and partner with Roblox teams to solve real

Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience building large-scale backend or infrastructure systems.
• Proficient in one or more programming languages (C#, C++, Go, Python).
• Curious and collaborative problem-solver with an interest in distributed systems.
• Willing to work across teams on scalable, reliable infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve EaaS, Roblox’s managed OLTP access platform powering millions of QPS.
• Design infrastructure that abstracts distributed databases and caching for a productive developer experience.
• Drive reliability and scalability improvements across distributed systems and caching behavior.
• Lead end-to-end execution, rollout, operations, and incident response for mission-critical infra.
• Analyze production traffic and failure modes to improve reliability and scalability.
• Improve platform safety, observability, deployment reliability, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with Roblox teams to solve real scalability and reliability challenges.

Skills

C#

C++

Go

Python

Job description

Roblox Corporation in San Mateo, CA is seeking an outstanding engineer to join our Data Access team within Infra / Storage. You will help build EaaS, a large-scale OLTP platform powering millions of QPS across hundreds of services, enabling safe, productive access to distributed databases and caches.

As part of a cross-functional team, you will design, implement, and operate mission-critical infrastructure, improve reliability and scalability, and partner with Roblox teams to solve real