Principal Software Engineer - Storage

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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.

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 Principal 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 experience designing & delivering large-scale distributed systems handling millions of real-time requests per second.
• Deep 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
• Strong experience building deployment pipelines on top of container orchestrators like Kubernetes or Nomad and service discovery systems like Consul
• Strong experience with programming languages like Rust, Go, Java or C++
• Strong 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, with at least 7 years of hands on experience

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$283,780—$331,640 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.