Senior Software Engineer, Machine Bootstrap & Fleet

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

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Job summary

Roblox is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Fleet Management team in San Mateo, CA. You will lead provisioning and fleet management across bare metal and cloud, driving automation and large-scale maintenance for hundreds of thousands of machines.

The role requires 4+ years in distributed systems, strong system-level language skills (Go/C/C++, Rust), and experience building large-scale distributed infrastructure that other teams rely on. Equity and benefits are provided.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in distributed systems and infrastructure.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Strong proficiency in Go, C/C++, Rust or other system level programming languages.
• Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems that other teams depend on.
• Familiarity with bare-metal concepts (PXE/iPXE, DHCP, BMC/IPMI/Redfish, OS imaging) is a plus; deep low-level systems experience is a bonus.
• Interest in modern server hardware including GPU servers, AI accelerators, and cloud infrastructure.

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

Go

C/C++

Rust

Distributed systems

System-level programming

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Roblox is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Fleet Management team in San Mateo, CA. You will lead provisioning and fleet management across bare metal and cloud, driving automation and large-scale maintenance for hundreds of thousands of machines.

The role requires 4+ years in distributed systems, strong system-level language skills (Go/C/C++, Rust), and experience building large-scale distributed infrastructure that other teams rely on. Equity and benefits are provided.