Roblox Senior Software Engineer on the Data Access team at Roblox building and evolving EaaS, a large-scale managed OLTP access platform. Solve infrastructure challenges around scalability, reliability, and distributed systems.
Responsibilities
Build and evolve EaaS, Roblox’s managed OLTP access platform powering tens of millions of QPS across hundreds of services.
Design infrastructure that abstracts distributed databases and caching systems behind a consistent, safe, and highly productive developer experience.
Drive reliability and scalability improvements across distributed systems, including adaptive flow control, workload isolation and governance, and large-scale caching behavior.
Lead end-to-end technical execution architecture, implementation, rollout, production operations, and incident response for mission-critical infrastructure systems.
Analyze real production traffic patterns and failure modes to improve platform reliability, operational predictability, and scalability under rapidly growing workloads.
Improve platform safety, observability, deployment reliability, and operational excellence across the stack.
Partner with teams across Roblox to solve real scalability and reliability challenges for critical production workloads.
Qualification
Strong programming skills in RustAnnual Salary Range$243
Required
Experience building large-scale infrastructure abstractions that standardize access to complex backend systems across broad engineering organizations.
Experience designing or operating adaptive rate limiting, flow control, workload governance, or reliability automation systems in high-scale production environments.
Experience operating or building systems around distributed databases, caching systems, OLTP platforms, or stateful infrastructure.
Experience driving complex technical initiatives end-to-end with strong ownership and cross-functional collaboration.
Strong hands-on experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems and backend infrastructure in production environments.
Strong programming skills in Rust, Go, C++, Java or similar backend systems languages.
BS degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science, with at least 6 years of hands-on experience.
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.
Annual Salary Range
$243,290—$295,250 USD
Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
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