Senior Software Engineer - Data Access

Location: United States; roles based at the San Mateo, California headquarters are onsite Tuesday through Thursday, with optional office presence on Monday and Friday.

Salary: $243,290–$295,250 USD annual base pay, plus equity compensation and benefits.

Company

Roblox builds a platform and tools for creating and experiencing 3D immersive digital experiences.

What you will do

• Build and evolve EaaS, a managed OLTP access platform serving tens of millions of queries per second across hundreds of services.
• Design infrastructure that abstracts distributed databases and caching systems behind a safe and productive developer experience.
• Improve distributed-system scalability and reliability through adaptive flow control, workload isolation, governance, and large-scale caching.
• Own end-to-end technical execution, including architecture, implementation, rollout, production operations, and incident response.
• Analyze production traffic and failure modes to improve reliability, observability, deployment safety, and operational predictability.
• Partner with teams across Roblox to solve scalability and reliability challenges for critical production workloads.

Requirements

• Experience building large-scale infrastructure abstractions for complex backend systems.
• Experience with adaptive rate limiting, flow control, workload governance, or reliability automation in high-scale production environments.
• Experience with distributed databases, caching systems, OLTP platforms, or stateful infrastructure.
• Strong hands-on experience building and operating distributed systems and backend infrastructure in production.
• Strong programming skills in Rust, Go, C++, Java, or a similar backend systems language.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience, with at least 6 years of hands-on experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on infrastructure supporting tens of millions of queries per second and critical production workloads.
• Collaborate across engineering teams on large-scale reliability and platform challenges.
• Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and benefits.
• Roblox provides equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations during the recruiting process.