Senior Software Engineer, Reliability

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

Salary: $243,290–$295,250 USD annual base pay; full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and benefits.

Company

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

What you will do

• Create fault-tolerance and resilience libraries, including retries, circuit breakers, and adaptive concurrency limits.
• Build, automate, and standardize process automation, tooling, and platform support for the Roblox ecosystem.
• Create production guardrails, including load-testing tools for evaluating release candidate capacity before deployment.
• Develop performance monitoring and observability services to identify capacity issues and platform degradations.
• Build generalized canarying services with monitoring and alerting for production services and their changes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to build reliable infrastructure supporting platform growth.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of experience in software engineering, with additional experience in Site Reliability Engineering, SRE, or Software Engineering considered an advantage.
• A BS degree or equivalent professional experience in Computer Science or a related engineering field.
• Experience building software and tools and driving their adoption across a tooling ecosystem.
• Experience writing common programming languages such as Go, C#, or Java.
• Experience working through complex technical problems, using data to test theories, and addressing emergent issues.
• Experience with large project lifecycles, sprints, milestone planning, and status reporting.
• A systems-focused approach and a commitment to deeply reliable code.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on systems supporting tens of millions of users and Roblox's goal of reaching one billion daily active users.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners and contribute to long-running projects.
• Full-time employment includes equity compensation and benefits.
• Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodations are provided during the recruiting process.
• The company may not be able to employ candidates requiring certain U.S. visa categories and does not support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.