Roblox Senior Data Center Engineer at Roblox responsible for scaling Edge Data Centers and hardware infrastructure. Focus on server, network, power, and environmental lifecycle management to support millions of concurrent players.
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain the Edge Data Center and hardware infrastructure to meet the large scale and real-time requirements of our Imagination PlatformTM to ensure our community has an awesome experience anywhere in the world. This includes all aspects of the server, network infrastructure, power, and environmental life cycles.
Own efforts to track and mitigate systemic issues preventing hosts from returning to service.
Identify and solve critical problems and prevent them from re-occurring via root cause analysis and giving recommendations to improve automation.
Coordinate with peers to establish and uphold best practices related to breakfix, install, decom and all other aspects of datacenter operations.
Create, influence, and improve the development platform, infrastructure, standards (Runbooks, SOPs, MOPs), and methods to ensure the goal of scalability and high availability can be achieved.
Leverage partnerships across teams to automate maintenance actions which do not require physical intervention.
Encourage an environment of continuous improvement and learning among engineering staff.
Assist in coordinating vendors and ensuring quality of outsourced projects
Participate in the on-call rotation for our critical infrastructure.
Travel: Domestic and international travel will be required 25-50% of the time to support the physical deployment and scaling of our core/edge data center infrastructure at both domestic and global locations.
Qualification
Extensive experience installingSomeone who is ready for actionAnnual Salary Range
Required
At minimum 4+ years of experience working in large-scale Data Center Infrastructure environments, including experience with remote edge deployments and coordinating with "smart hands" or third-party contractors.
Extensive experience installing, monitoring, and maintaining server and network equipment. This includes brand new server and network provisioning.
In-depth knowledge of data center environments, servers, and network equipment.
Proven experience executing on multiple tasks simultaneously.
You have installed various equipment that commonly resides in the data center environment and are able to lift 75 pounds occasionally.
Someone who is ready for action, willing to travel and get on-site to build our Domestic and global edge data centers. You wield a wealth of server and network hardware troubleshooting knowledge to support Roblox’s systems.
Excited about getting in front of complex problems, and can effectively organize your work to overcome emergent high-impact issues.
Someone who enjoys building processes and procedures for the day to execute our workload and for developing new capabilities as a team.
Someone who asks the right questions to solve issues within your expertise and you use data to test your theories. You are able to formulate and identify problems, generate and evaluate a variety of solutions (some of which are novel), and implement the best one(s).
Someone who is committed to demonstrating professionalism in all interactions with partners both inside and outside Roblox to ensure continued success in cross-functional initiatives. You are able to foster trust and uphold the reputation of the team and company.
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 as described on this page.
