Roblox is looking to solve the problem of building a next-generation managed OLTP data access layer that can handle extreme scale, global availability, and uncompromising security to power the data foundation behind every experience on the platform.
Requirements
- Strong experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems handling millions of real-time requests per second.
- Deep data management knowledge in one or more of the following technologies: RDBMS (CockroachDB, SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, RDB), Caching (Redis), Kafka, KV store (DynamoDB, Cassandra).
- 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, AlertManager, and Kibana.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and Security teams to define long-term strategy and technical requirements for the Data Access platform.
- Lead the architecture, implementation, and operation of our storage Infra-as-a-Service offerings, setting the engineering bar for scalability, reliability, and system hardening across teams.
- Improve and 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 plans, oncall alerts, and runbooks while leveraging existing technology stack.
- Give a high level of attention to creating high quality and reusable code, keeping development continuous without compromising site reliability.
- Improve SLAs across the platform and reduce end-to-end rollout time for critical storage and data-access features.
Other
- BS degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science, with at least 7 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).
- 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 to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.
- All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on the company website.
