Software Engineer, Data Access (Distributed Systems)

Location: San Mateo, California, United States; office attendance is required Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday

Salary: $153,120–$196,750 USD annually

Company

Roblox builds tools and platforms for creating and operating large-scale 3D immersive digital experiences.

What you will do

• Build and evolve EaaS, a managed OLTP access and management platform serving tens of millions of queries per second across Roblox services.
• Design infrastructure that abstracts distributed databases and caching systems behind a safe and productive developer experience.
• Improve reliability and scalability through adaptive flow control, workload isolation, governance, efficient database usage, 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 on scalability and reliability challenges affecting critical production workloads.

Requirements

• At least 1 year of experience building large-scale backend or infrastructure systems.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as C#, C++, Go, or Python.
• Ability to solve open-ended technical problems and develop a deep understanding of complex systems.
• Strong collaboration skills for cross-functional and cross-team projects.
• Willingness to take a long-term approach to system design and collaboration.
• For US-based roles, certain US visa categories may not be supported, and future H-1B sponsorship may not be available.

Nice to have

• Experience with high-QPS, low-latency systems.
• Background in infrastructure or performance-critical backend systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and company benefits.
• Work focuses on large-scale infrastructure, reliability engineering, and platform architecture.
• Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodations are provided during the recruiting process.