Senior Storage Systems Engineer — Scale & Reliability

Roblox; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 243,000 - 295,000; Full time

Job summary

Roblox is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the storage team within the infra organization. You will design, implement and operate large-scale distributed systems on in-house infrastructure to support storage needs, including caching and messaging queues.

Based at our San Mateo, CA headquarters, you will collaborate across teams to deliver reliable services, scale with demand and shape the roadmap for next-generation features while maintaining high availability and a strong on-call culture.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, delivering and operating large-scale distributed systems handling billions of real-time requests per second.
• Experience running Active/Active distributed systems on container orchestrators like Kubernetes or Nomad and service discovery systems like Consul.
• Strong programming experience in Go, Java or C++.
• Strong scripting and test automation abilities.
• Experience with telemetry stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, AlertManager, Kibana).
• BS degree in Computer Science with at least 5 years hands-on experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation and operation of internal Infra-as-a-Service offerings on top of a container orchestrator platform.
• Improve and scale large distributed 24x7 services with high availability and elastic scalability.
• Design and build frameworks/tools to automate development, testing, cluster management and monitoring.
• Collaborate with partner teams to produce project plans, metrics and rollout strategies.
• Ensure high quality, reusable code without compromising site reliability.
• Influence strategy for next-gen product features and system capabilities.
• Improve SLA and end-to-end rollout time of the software suite.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Java

C++

Test automation

Education

BS degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Nomad

Consul

Grafana

Prometheus

Alertmanager

Kibana

Job description

Roblox is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the storage team within the infra organization. You will design, implement and operate large-scale distributed systems on in-house infrastructure to support storage needs, including caching and messaging queues.

Based at our San Mateo, CA headquarters, you will collaborate across teams to deliver reliable services, scale with demand and shape the roadmap for next-generation features while maintaining high availability and a strong on-call culture.