Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Compute)

Location: San Mateo, California, United States. Office-based roles require onsite presence Tuesday through Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday.

Salary: $196,750–$243,290 USD annual base pay.

Company

Roblox builds tools and infrastructure for 3D immersive digital experiences created by a global community of developers and creators.

What you will do

• Design and develop fault-tolerant systems and libraries for Roblox’s cell infrastructure and cluster lifecycle management.
• Build and productionize Kubernetes-based private cloud infrastructure.
• Establish reliability practices, technical reviews, and operational guidance across the Infrastructure Compute group.
• Automate and standardize platform tooling and support processes.
• Create load-testing, release-capacity, performance-monitoring, canarying, and alerting services.
• Analyze systems and designs for production readiness and identify platform capacity or degradation issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 6 years of experience as an SRE or Software Engineer.
• At least 3 years of professional programming experience with Go, Java, or C#.
• Experience with Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems.
• Experience building reliable software and tools and driving their adoption across an organization.
• Ability to work from the United States and attend the San Mateo office onsite Tuesday through Thursday.

Nice to have

• Experience with Nomad, Vault, and Consul.
• Experience with large project lifecycles, sprint planning, and breaking complex work into measurable deliverables.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across infrastructure and tooling partners.
• Full-time employment with eligibility for equity compensation and employee benefits.
• Work focused on reliability, problem-solving, and safer shared digital experiences.
• Future H-1B sponsorship may not be supported, and certain U.S. visa categories may not be eligible for employment.