Principal Reliability Operations Engineer

Roblox Corporation; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 231,000 - 267,000; Full time

Job summary

Roblox Corporation is seeking a Principal Reliability Operations Engineer to lead production incidents and improve incident processes across our distributed platform. You will own incident response and drive postmortems to prevent recurrence.

In this senior role, you will monitor health and capacity, contribute to architecture decisions, mentor teammates, and automate routine tasks with Python or Golang, while reporting to the Reliability leadership.

Qualifications

• At least 8+ years of experience in a comparable Site Reliability role.
• Advanced knowledge of systems and network infrastructure.
• Experience managing incidents in distributed environments.
• Ability to distill complex technical issues into clear language.
• Familiarity with scripting or programming languages (Python or Golang preferred).
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/CE or similar.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage production incidents.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to troubleshoot challenges.
• Guide incident management processes and procedures, ensuring fast responses.
• Continually monitor system health, performance and capacity.
• Conduct post-mortem analyses to ascertain root causes and corrective actions.
• Contribute to design and enhancement of system architecture for reliability and performance.
• Leverage coding to automate routine tasks and improve efficiency.
• Serve in the Incident Manager On-Call rotation.
• Mentor junior team members.

Skills

Incident management

Distributed systems

System monitoring

SRE tooling

Python

Golang

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE

Job description

Principal Reliability Operations Engineer

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.

At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.

A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

As a Principal Site Reliability Operations Engineer on the Reliability Team, you will manage production incidents and improve Roblox's incident processes while reporting to the Senior Operations Manager. You will maintain reliability service-level objectives, drive incidents tenaciously to resolution, and work with service teams towards appropriate action items during the incident postmortem process. If you are passionate about maintaining uptime in a complex distributed environment full of continuous change, you'll be right at home with our Reliability team.You will report to the Senior Manager, Reliability Response.

You Will:

• Lead and manage production incidents.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to troubleshoot and resolve sophisticated technical challenges.
• Guide the implementation of incident management processes and procedures, ensuring fast and effective responses to minimize impact.
• Continually monitor system health, performance and capacity, proactively addressing potential issues.
• Conduct comprehensive post-mortem analysis to ascertain the root cause of incidents and formulate corrective measures.
• Contribute substantially to the design and enhancement of system architecture to boost reliability and performance.
• Leverage coding skills to automate daily routine tasks and enhance system efficiency.
• Serve in the Incident Manager On-Call rotation.
• Mentor junior team members.

You Have:

• At least 8+ years of experience in a comparable role within a Site Reliability Team.
• Advanced knowledge of systems and network infrastructure protocols.
• Demonstrated ability in managing, troubleshooting, and resolving incidents in distributed environments.
• Experience solving problems.
• An ability to distill complex technical issues into clear and concise language.
• Familiarity with at least one scripting or programming language to automate routine tasks (Python, Golang, or similar languages preferred).
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field

You Are:

• A great communicator; you are able to explain complex systems clearly to stakeholders and fellow engineers.
• Able to operate in potentially ambiguous circumstances during a production incident.
• Familiar with the interactions of services in a distributed system.
• Tenacious towards driving challenging production incidents to resolution.

Annual Salary Range

$230,980 — $267,390 USD

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.