Senior Software Engineer- Creator Data Storage

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.

As a Senior Software Engineer on Creator Services Data, you’ll be building the next generation Data Storage systems that power the millions of experiences on Roblox! We own the mission critical Data Stores, Memory Stores, and Badges services as well as deliver pioneering new observability dashboards to Creators for cloud services across the Roblox platform. Through our full stack projects, you will gain a deep understanding and a chance to build software solutions from the infrastructure layer, through data storage and data pipelines, microservices, telemetry, client software, web development, and UI!

You Will:

• Identify improvements in existing products and craft new cloud services to support our Creator Community.
• Build state-of-the-art data storage systems including infrastructure, serving layers, clients, and web APIs.
• Expand the internal and customer facing cloud service observability platform through metrics collection, data pipelines, intelligent analytics, data visualization, and dashboards.
• Work with our users (Creators) to identify product gaps and bugs and handle customer emergencies.
• Provide on-call support for our Data products including production alerts and outages.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical and non-technical guidance through design and code reviews, joint projects, 1:1s, and peer feedback.
• Contribute and collaborate on a multi-functional team including UX design, product management, project management, developer relations, documentation, customer support, and other engineering teams.

You Have:

• Required
  • 2+ years experience building and maintaining (not just using) data storage systems (relational databases, key/value stores, blob stores, etc)
  • 5+ years backgound in software development building with public clouds (AWS, Azure, and GCP), microservices and distributed systems
  • 5+ years programming in C# and/or C++ (ideally both)
  • 5+ years designing, implementing, testing, and deploying robust, scalable, and well documented production-grade code
  • 5+ years experience working on agile, fast-paced, high-impact software teams
  • 2+ years leading junior engineers and new graduates on complex software engineering projects
• Desired (one or more of)
  • Prior experience building big data pipelines or batch processing systems (MapReduce, Hadoop, Flink, Spark, Flume)
  • Prior experience programming computer games, particularly in Lua/Luau
  • Prior knowledge of data science, data analytics, machine learning, or AI
  • Prior experience building graphical user interfaces, dashboards, or web application front ends

You Are:

• Innovative: We strive for novel solutions that bridge the technical needs of Roblox with the creative needs of our developer community. This typically involves tackling competing objectives and thinking creatively.
• Passionate: We are looking for new team members who are passionate about data storage technology, computer games, and software development. We are excited about building new products that will redefine the future of human online interaction.
• Versatile: The Data Pod is expanding its scope beyond providing low level storage solutions to building higher level services such as User Profiles and LiveOps Analytics. We are also working on projects such as Observability and Data Insights. You need to be ready to learn new programming languages and tech stacks as we evolve.
• Responsible: Data Storage services cannot go down and cannot lose data. You are committed to join a team that strives for a 100% uptime and data durability.
• Team Oriented: You are ready to both guide and learn from others. You will set the standard on team partnership and communication. You exemplify Roblox Values and Principles.

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.

Annual Salary Range$233,840—$283,780 USD

Roles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

You’ll Love:

• Industry-leading compensation package
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• A rewarding 401k program
• Flexible vacation policy (varies by exemption status)
• Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
• Roblox Admin badge for your avatar

• At Roblox HQ:

  • Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
  • Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
  • Annual CalTrain Go Pass

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations for all candidates during the interview process.