Principal Software Engineer – Creator Data Storage & Systems

OneClick Smart Resume; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 345,040 - 399,420; Full time

Job summary

Roblox is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for Creator Services Data in San Mateo, CA. You will lead the next generation distributed storage systems powering Roblox experiences, spanning data stores, memory stores, dashboards, and Extended Services.

You will mentor engineers, drive backend design, and collaborate across UX, product, and other teams to deliver scalable cloud solutions with strong reliability and observability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building with public clouds and distributed systems.
• 3+ years building and maintaining data storage systems.
• 10+ years designing, implementing, testing, and deploying production-grade code.
• 6+ years programming in C# and/or C++ (ideally both).
• 6+ years experience working on agile, fast-paced software teams.
• 4+ years leading junior engineers and new graduates.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of improvements to existing products and design new cloud services for Creator Community.
• Build state-of-the-art data storage systems including infrastructure, serving layers, clients, and web APIs.
• Expand observability capabilities through metrics, pipelines, analytics, dashboards.
• Increase the capabilities and onboard new customers to the Roblox Extended Services platform.
• Collaborate with Creators to identify gaps and bugs and handle customer emergencies.
• Provide on-call support for Data products including production alerts and outages.

Skills

Clouds & distributed systems

Data storage systems

C# and/or C++

Agile methods

Technical leadership

Job description

Roblox is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for Creator Services Data in San Mateo, CA. You will lead the next generation distributed storage systems powering Roblox experiences, spanning data stores, memory stores, dashboards, and Extended Services.

You will mentor engineers, drive backend design, and collaborate across UX, product, and other teams to deliver scalable cloud solutions with strong reliability and observability.