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Principal Software Engineer, Object Store

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San Mateo, CA, United States
Posted 9 hours ago
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Job Description

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.

Roblox storage team plays a fundamental role in enabling the company’s success by designing and running highly scalable and secure data storage systems across geo-regions globally.  

As a  Principal Software Engineer on the team, you will lead the development of an innovative object store, design distributed software and tools to manage storage systems that support exabyte-scale data size, trillions objects and handle terabyte/sec throughput.

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Object Store team within the Infrastructure Storage organization, you will be instrumental in enhancing and operating our large-scale distributed systems. Your contributions will address Roblox's continuously expanding business demands by focusing on architecture, performance tuning, and capacity planning of our storage platform. This role also entails ensuring durability and availability, implementing robust security measures, and automating operations to support critical backend systems for many critical use cases in Roblox.

You will:

  • Improve & scale our large distributed 24x7 services and deliver features focused oncost 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 kubernetes platform
  • Design and build frameworks/tools to automate development, testing, cluster management and monitoring of mission-critical services
  • Improve SLA of the offering services and end-end rollout time of our suite of software solutions

You have:

  • Experience in designing, delivering & operating large-scale Object Store technology handling at least petabyte scale. 
  • Deep domain knowledge in Ceph, or other similar Object storage technologies, is a plus.
  • 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
  • Proficiency in programming languages like C++ or Golang
  • BS degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science, with at least 8 years of hands-on working 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
$283,780$331,640 USD

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

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Salary: $190,000 - $285,000

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