Roblox is a global platform where millions of people gather together every day to imagine, create, and share experiences with each other in immersive, user-generated 3D worlds. Backed by First Round.
About the role
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering or a relevant field
- Deep experience building and operating large-scale distributed storage — object stores, blob stores, or distributed file systems — at petabyte scale or beyond
- Strong skills in C++, Go, or Rust
- Deep understanding of durability and replication — erasure coding, geo-replication, consistency trade-offs, blast-radius containment
- Proven success shipping high-throughput, low-latency services on bare-metal, on-prem fleets with strong observability
- Ability to turn ambiguous requirements into a clear roadmap and influence cross-functional stakeholders
More about this role
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.
At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
Roblox's Object Store team is building the in-house, multi-tenant object storage platform that underpins every large-object workload at Roblox — assets, media, analytics, backups, and machine learning datasets — at exabyte scale, trillions of objects, and terabytes per second of throughput. We build and run it ourselves on bare metal in our own data centers, replacing cloud object storage with a platform we control...
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