Software Engineer — AI/ML & Reliability at Scale

Roblox; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 153,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Full benefits

Job summary

Roblox in San Mateo, CA seeks a Software Engineer for Reliability to help scale AI/ML-enabled backend systems. You will own features from design to production rollout, improving performance and reliability across globally scaled services.

You'll work with distributed systems, containers/orchestration, and observability tools while collaborating with product and infrastructure teams to deliver robust software. Equity and full benefits are provided.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science or related field with at least 2 years of backend or AI/ML pipeline experience
• Strong proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Rust, Go, Java, C#) with clean, tested code
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts (concurrency, networking, caching, load balancing, failure modes)
• Interest in performance; able to profile or tune a service or pipeline and explain impact
• Curiosity to understand internals and willingness to tackle hard problems
• Nice to have: containers/orchestration, observability tools, or applying ML/forecasting to operational data

Responsibilities

• Own well-scoped features and components inside multi-quarter projects that scale Roblox and improve efficiency
• Build and improve systems that use AI/ML to scale services across regions
• Find and fix performance and efficiency problems in production services using metrics and profiling data
• Work with product and infrastructure teams to solve problems with software
• Participate in on-call and incident reviews and translate learnings into reliability improvements

Skills

Python

Rust

Go

Java

C#

Kubernetes

Nomad

Prometheus

Grafana

ML forecasting

Education

BS degree in Computer Science or related engineering field

Tools

Containers/Orchestration

Observability tools

Job description

Roblox in San Mateo, CA seeks a Software Engineer for Reliability to help scale AI/ML-enabled backend systems. You will own features from design to production rollout, improving performance and reliability across globally scaled services.

You'll work with distributed systems, containers/orchestration, and observability tools while collaborating with product and infrastructure teams to deliver robust software. Equity and full benefits are provided.