Senior Software Engineer, Fleet Provisioning & Machine Bootstrap

Roblox Corporation; San Mateo, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 197,000 - 243,000; Full time

Job summary

Roblox Corporation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Fleet Management team to lead provisioning and rebuild of Roblox's global fleet across bare metal and cloud. You will shape the technical direction for MAPI and drive large-scale maintenance operations such as firmware updates and hardware tuning.

You will lead cross-functional collaboration with Compute, Networking, and Cloud teams to oversee the full machine lifecycle from rack to production, evaluating new hardware platforms and

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience with distributed systems and infrastructure.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Strong proficiency in Go, C/C++, Rust or other system-level languages.
• Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems used by other teams.
• Familiarity with bare-metal concepts (PXE/iPXE, DHCP, BMC/IPMI/Redfish) is a plus.
• Interest in modern server hardware including GPU servers, AI accelerators, and cloud infrastructure.
• Track record of building high-performance automation at fleet scale and reducing toil via APIs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Machine Bootstrap pod in building and evolving provisioning and fleet management at massive scale.
• Ship fleet-wide maintenance operations (BIOS updates, firmware updates, configuration changes) to hundreds of thousands of machines through MAPI.
• Drive best-in-class provisioning performance, minutes to fully rebuild a machine from scratch.
• Evaluate and integrate new hardware platforms including GPU servers and AI accelerators into the provisioning pipeline.
• Collaborate across Compute, Networking, and Cloud teams on the full machine lifecycle from rack-and-stack to production.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

C/C++

Rust

System-level programming

Hardware/AI accelerators

Automation at fleet scale

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Roblox Corporation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Fleet Management team to lead provisioning and rebuild of Roblox's global fleet across bare metal and cloud. You will shape the technical direction for MAPI and drive large-scale maintenance operations such as firmware updates and hardware tuning.

You will lead cross-functional collaboration with Compute, Networking, and Cloud teams to oversee the full machine lifecycle from rack to production, evaluating new hardware platforms and