Senior Distributed Database Engineer — Global-Scale, Low-Latency

Showcify, Inc.; Canada (KY); Presencial; USD 243 000 - 295 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Equity compensation

On-site workplace

Resumo da oferta

Roblox is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to join the database team, shaping architecture and launching critical capabilities to support global scale. You will design engine features, optimize critical paths, and mentor engineers across Storage, Platform, and Product teams.

You will also contribute to open-source communities and drive best practices, performance benchmarks, and automated testing and deployment pipelines to keep services fast, reliable, and observable.

Qualificações

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering or a related field.
• Deep experience with building and operating large-scale distributed databases or storage engines.
• Deep expertise in database internals—B-trees, MVCC, WAL, query optimization, buffer management—and strong skills in C/C++, Go or Rust.
• Hands-on experience with consensus algorithms (Raft, Paxos) and multi-region replication models.
• Proven success shipping high-QPS, low-latency services on Kubernetes or Nomad with comprehensive observability.
• Ability to turn ambiguous product requirements into a clear technical roadmap and influence cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsabilidades

• Design and implement new engine features—indexing, storage formats, WAL and replication protocols, sharding, and query-planner enhancements.
• Evolve the control plane to deliver elastic scaling, autonomous healing, and zero-downtime schema moves across global regions.
• Profile and optimize critical code paths using advanced performance tooling and tail-latency reductions.
• Establish engineering best practices by leading design reviews, benchmarks, failure drills, and post-incident retrospectives.
• Automate testing, CI/CD, rollout safety, observability and autoscaling for hands-off scale.
• Mentor and unblock engineers across Storage, Platform, and product teams.
• Engage with the open-source community—upstreaming patches and shaping future of Postgres, RocksDB and related ecosystems.

Conhecimentos

Distributed databases

Database internals

C/C++

Go

Rust

Kubernetes

Nomad

Consensus algorithms

High-QPS, low-latency

Automation and testing

Observability

Cross-functional influence

Mentorship

Formação académica

Bachelor’s or higher in Computer Science or related field

Ferramentas

PostgreSQL

MySQL/InnoDB

RocksDB

Spanner

Aurora

AlloyDB

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Roblox is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to join the database team, shaping architecture and launching critical capabilities to support global scale. You will design engine features, optimize critical paths, and mentor engineers across Storage, Platform, and Product teams.

You will also contribute to open-source communities and drive best practices, performance benchmarks, and automated testing and deployment pipelines to keep services fast, reliable, and observable.