San Mateo, CA, United StatesEarly CareerID: 5254 Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device.We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.

A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. At Roblox, we believe that careers are dynamic and should be a continuous progression through challenges and opportunities that build new skills and strengths.

As part of our commitment to fostering growth and development, we encourage you to learn more about this opportunity and apply if you see a potential fit!

Roblox storage team plays a fundamental role in enabling the company’s success by designing and running highly scalable and secure data storage systems across geo-regions globally. As a Software Engineer on the team, you will lead the development of next-generation data security and availability architecture, designing distributed software and tools to manage storage systems that support exabyte-scale data and handle hundreds of millions of transactions per second. Additionally, this role is highly multi-functional, requiring close collaboration with analytics, security, and product teams to understand customer requirements and develop integrated solutions.

You will: Partner with Security, Product, and Engineering teams to collect requirements, drive and influence the strategy to define the data security for all of Roblox storage systems, including OLTP databases, Object store, Queue, Search etc.

Have a leading role in designing, implementing and running our storage Infra-as-a-Service offerings, particularly hardening the data security and availability aspects.

Improve & scale our large distributed 24x7 services and deliver features with urgency, cost efficiency, zero down time and high reliability

Design and build frameworks or tools to automate development, testing deployment, management and monitoring of mission critical services

Collaborate with partner teams, producing project work plans, measurable metrics, delivery milestones, rollout plan, oncall alerts and runbooks while leveraging existing technology stack

Give a high level of attention to create high quality & reusable code, keep development continuously without compromising site reliability

Improve SLA of the offering services and end-end rollout time of our suite of software solutions You have: Strong interest designing & delivering large-scale distributed systems handling millions of real-time requests per second.

Data management knowledge in one or more following technologies: RDBMS (CockroachDB, SQL Server, PostGres, MySQL, RDB) Caching(Redis), Kafka , KV store(DynamoDB, Cassandra), OLAP(ClickHouse), Object Storage (Ceph) is a plus

Experience building deployment pipelines on top of container orchestrators like Kubernetes or Nomad and service discovery systems like Consul

Experience with programming languages like Rust, Go, Java or C++

Scripting and test automation abilities

Experience with telemetry stacks, like Grafana, Prometheus monitoring, AlertManager and Kibana

BS degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science, 1-3 years of hands on experience

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).