Senior Envoy Gateway Engineer - L7 Networking

Roblox; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 197,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Job summary

Roblox is hiring for a senior role in the Application Gateway team in San Mateo, CA. You will design and operate an Envoy-based gateway fleet handling billions of requests, focusing on L7 routing, authentication, and traffic policy.

You will drive reliability, participate in cross-team traffic architecture, and mentor engineers in testing and deployment. The role requires production Kubernetes experience, proficiency in Go/C/C++, and familiarity with TLS and xDS control planes.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in distributed systems with networking focus.
• Strong expertise in Envoy and Kubernetes.
• Fluent in Go, C/C++, or Rust.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate Roblox's Envoy-based gateway fleet, owning L7 routing and rate limiting.
• Ensure gateway reliability with capacity modeling and blast-radius reduction.
• Collaborate across teams to unify traffic policy from client to service.
• Serve as escalation point for edge/gateway issues and mentor juniors.

Skills

Distributed systems

Networking architecture

Envoy

Kubernetes

Go

C/C++

Rust

Reliability engineering

On-call rotations

Tools

Envoy

Kubernetes

Job description

Roblox is hiring for a senior role in the Application Gateway team in San Mateo, CA. You will design and operate an Envoy-based gateway fleet handling billions of requests, focusing on L7 routing, authentication, and traffic policy.

You will drive reliability, participate in cross-team traffic architecture, and mentor engineers in testing and deployment. The role requires production Kubernetes experience, proficiency in Go/C/C++, and familiarity with TLS and xDS control planes.