Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to Roblox to play, learn, work, and socialize in immersive digital experiences created by the community.
Our vision is to build a platform that enables shared experiences among billions of users. This is what’s known as the metaverse: a persistent space where anyone can do just about anything they can imagine, from anywhere in the world and on any device. The breadth of opportunities, and the evolving demands of this first-of-its-kind platform, ensure that your avenues for growth are always expanding and flexible.
Join us and you’ll usher in a new category of human interaction while solving exceptional challenges that you won’t find anywhere else.
The Team
Software observability provides the vital signs for our software components that subtend the Metaverse. As the three pillars of modern observability, Telemetry, Distributed Tracing, and Logging have become an important tool to combat issues in microservice architecture with Telemetry revealing an eagle's eye view and stats of the vital signs of services, Tracing providing contextual analytics and drill down capability for individual requests/responses, and Logging supplying sure-footed textual evidence.
The Observability Team owns the entire stack of Telemetry, Distributed Tracing, and Logs - from instrumentation libraries of major programming languages, to data processing pipelines, from backend microservices, to visualization UI and other components used to build distributed tracing such as storage layers, processors, load balancers, messaging system, etc. The team is also in charge of software pieces that integrate with one another within the observability platform. Additionally, the team is also responsible for the public relationships with the rest of Roblox, e.g., user training, tech support, and looking for opportunities to better use Observability.
As a team, we believe in fast iteration in development and are biased toward action. We have numerous exciting projects laying ahead of us for the years to come, including:
- Develop UI and visualization tools based on open source technologies or from scratch
- Build client instrumentation libraries for Golang, Java, Python
- Database and caching layer design
- Scale up distributed systems with millions of QPS
- Data lifecycle management and storage optimization
You Will:
- Design and implement features in our backend using Kafka, Elastic search, databases, AWS.
- Build new microservices.
- Write code in a diverse ecosystem.
- Report to the Observability Organization.
You are:
- Someone that has designed and developed web applications and UI design
- Familiar with Data Visualization and creating frontend data slicing and dicing
- Help Roblox build web applications.
- Someone that has technical leadership: maintains a high bar for code quality, and OO designs.
- Someone with 3+ years of experience
- Someone with a Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or equivalent
Huge Plus:
- Knowledge with data pipeline and big data technologies in general
You'll Love:
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- A rewarding 401k program
- Flexible vacation policy
- Free catered lunches and fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
- A Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
