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Senior Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure Compute

Roblox · San Mateo, CA, United States · On-site

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About Roblox

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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience building and operating production-grade distributed systems or infrastructure platforms
  • Kubernetes depth: Strong experience operating production Kubernetes clusters at scale, such as upgrades, node lifecycle, autoscaling, and operators or controllers
  • Cloud fluency: Experience with AWS (EKS, EC2, IAM, S3) or GCP equivalents, and infrastructure-as-code
  • Operational ownership: Experience taking a system from design through production operation, including on-call, incident response, and observability
  • Technical leadership: Ability to influence design decisions across teams, mentor engineers, and drive alignment on cross-cutting changes
  • B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
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 data platform processes petabytes of data daily, powering analytics, ML, and product decisions. The Data Platform Compute team owns the compute layer underneath it: the Kubernetes (EKS) clusters where all of Roblox’s Spark workloads run, and the software that lets engineers, analysts, and ML practitioners submit and run that work reliably and cost-effectively.

As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you...

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