Senior Software Engineer, Roblox
Storage
$189.1-233.8k
+ Equity
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Online gaming & entertainment platform
Job no longer available
Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$189.1-233.8k
+ Equity
Office located in San Mateo, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help connect and bring together people from around the world through play.
Role
Who you are
- Strong experience in designing, delivering & operating large-scale distributed systems handling billions of real-time requests per second. Deep domain knowledge in one or more following technologies: Redis, Apache Kafka, Ceph, or other similar Caching, Messaging or Object storage technologies
- Strong experience & builder mindset to run large scale Active/Active distributed systems on top of container orchestrators like Kubernetes or Nomad and service discovery systems like Consul
- Strong experience with programming languages like 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 4 years of hands on experience
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer for Cache/Queue/Object Store team within infra storage org, you’ll be innovating & running large scale distributed systems in-house in order to meet Roblox’s ever increasing challenges on Caching, Queue and Object Storage business needs
- Improve & scale our large distributed 24x7 services and deliver features with urgency, cost efficiency, 4+ 9s availability and elastic scalability
- Have a leading role in designing, implementing and running our internal Infra-as-a-Service offerings on top of a container orchestrator platform
- Design and build frameworks/tools to automate development, testing, cluster 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
- Work with stakeholders to influence the strategy for the next generation of product features and system capabilities, identifying the best practical way to deliver impactful functionalities
- Improve SLA of the offering services and end-end rollout time of our suite of software solutions
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
While online gaming is no longer a revolutionary concept, Roblox has established itself as a leader in the industry by creating a gaming toolbox that encourages quality game creation, which it pays developers for.
In addition to standard games, the platform offers virtual worlds and other experiences to explore and interact with. Its platform provides an online ecosystem for millions to create, socialize, chat, and explore immersive experiences with friends. In fact, in the US its used by two-thirds of children aged 9 to 12.
The experiences on the platform are made by Roblox's over three million creators, and are available on a range of devices from PC to Xbox to Oculus, and more. The company has grown at an impressive rate, and has been keen to adopt new developments in the tech world, for example with its real-time AI translation for players to interact outside their native tongue.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$520m
SERIES H
Feb 2020
$150m
SERIES G
Total funding: $922.8m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401k
- Flexible vacation policy
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- 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
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
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Founders
David Baszucki
(CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford before founding Knowledge Revolution in 1990, where they spent 9 years as CEO. They worked as VP of MSC.Software for 2 years, and started Roblox in 2005.
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