Principal Software Engineer (AI/ML Observability)

Location: Hybrid role at the San Mateo, California headquarters; office attendance is required Tuesday through Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday.

Salary: $295,250–$345,040 USD annual base pay.

Company

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

What you will do

• Partner with business stakeholders to define the vision and roadmap and lead project execution end to end.
• Develop novel solutions for monitoring AI/ML systems across the full AI/ML lifecycle and ecosystem.
• Own observability infrastructure covering instrumentation, data processing pipelines, storage, and visualization.
• Improve existing infrastructure with scalable, reliable, usable features and functionality.
• Architect the next-generation observability platform to ingest petabytes of log and tracing data daily.
• Report to the Engineering Manager for Observability and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience, including building, maintaining, and evolving large-scale distributed systems.
• Understanding of the components required to build modern, large-scale infrastructures.
• Experience owning the end-to-end availability and performance of critical services and reducing operational overhead.
• Ability to learn new technologies as the technical landscape evolves.
• Passion for mentoring junior engineers and helping them develop their technical knowledge.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Nice to have

• Previous contributions to the open-source community.
• Master’s degree or higher.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on technical challenges at scale and help create safer, more civil shared experiences.
• Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and benefits.
• Reasonable accommodations are available during the recruiting process for qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs.