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 in the Infra Compute organization you will design and implement the Machine Management tech stack: the software lifecycle of provisioning new compute servers, managing continuously running software systems, and building automation software for data centers.
The Infra Compute organization oversees:
Container orchestration and cluster management
Service-to-service communication and networking (including Service Mesh and the API Gateway)
Scheduling, provisioning, and management of the growing Roblox machine fleet
Come help us create, support and evolve the infra that manages the millions of containers that serve hundreds of millions of requests per second.
You Are:
5+ years of industry experience
Care deeply about production health and reliable, sustainable production systems
Love for building and supporting networks, systems and large scale distributed infrastructure
Customer, team, and quality oriented
Like getting things done
You Will:
Design and implement the software that manages servers running in Roblox's worldwide data centers.
Automate the deployment of software: The operating system, software patches, orchestration software, and software upgrades.
Design and implement the Machine Management tech stack: the software lifecycle of provisioning new compute servers, managing continuously running software systems, and building automation software for data centers.
Engineer and scale out the control plane services of Roblox data centers.
Report to a Senior Engineering Director in our Infrastructure organization.
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
$218,540—$283,780 USD
You’ll Love:
Industry-leading compensation package
Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
A rewarding 401k program
Flexible vacation policy
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
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