Principal Software Engineer - Creator Distributed Systems & Storage

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Responsibilities

• ▹Lead design and development of improvements to existing cloud services (Data Stores, Memory Stores, Badges) and design new services for the creator community
• ▹Build state-of-the-art, high-performance data storage systems spanning infrastructure, serving layers, clients and web APIs
• ▹Expand observability capabilities through metrics collection, data pipelines, analytics and dashboards
• ▹Grow the Roblox Extended Services platform and onboard new customers
• ▹Work with Creators to identify product gaps and bugs and handle customer emergencies
• ▹Provide on-call support for data products, responding to production alerts and outages
• ▹Mentor junior engineers through design and code reviews, joint projects, 1:1s and peer feedback
• ▹Collaborate cross-functionally with UX design, product management, project management, developer relations, documentation and customer support

Requirements

• ▹10+ years of software development experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP), microservices and distributed systems
• ▹3+ years of experience building and maintaining data storage systems (relational databases, key/value stores, blob stores)
• ▹10+ years designing, implementing, testing and deploying robust, scalable, well-documented production-grade code
• ▹6+ years programming in C# and/or C++
• ▹6+ years experience working on agile, fast-paced, high-impact software teams
• ▹4+ years leading junior engineers and new graduates on complex software engineering projects

Nice to have

• ▹Prior experience building big data pipelines or batch processing systems (MapReduce, Hadoop, Flink, Spark, Flume)
• ▹Prior experience programming computer games, particularly in Lua/Luau
• ▹Prior knowledge of data science, data analytics, machine learning, or AI
• ▹Prior experience building graphical user interfaces, dashboards, or web application front ends

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Equity compensation (RSU) program
• ▹Company benefits package (details vary by employment location)
• ▹Annual base pay range for San Mateo HQ roles: $345,040–$399,420 USD

About the company

Roblox is a leading 3D immersive digital platform where tens of millions of people explore, create, play and connect with friends every day, empowering a global community of developers with the tools and platform to build experiences.