# Software Engineer, Reliability at Roblox

- Company: Roblox
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://hbr.org/2022/03/the-ceo-of-roblox-on-scaling-community-sourced-innovation
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Mateo, CA, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-23
- Apply by: 2026-12-07
- Apply: https://careers.roblox.com/jobs/8283707?gh_jid=8283707&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/roblox-software-engineer-reliability/

## 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

- Coding skill: strong proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Rust, Go, Java, C#), and you write clean, tested, maintainable code
- Systems fundamentals: a solid grasp of distributed systems concepts (concurrency, networking, caching, load balancing, failure modes), and an interest in going deeper
- Interest in performance: you have profiled, benchmarked, or tuned a service or pipeline and can explain what you changed and why it helped
- Curiosity: you want to know how things work under the hood, and you keep going on hard problems until you understand them
- Nice to have : experience with containers and orchestration (Kubernetes, Nomad), observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana), or applying ML/forecasting to operational data
- A Learner: you take in feedback quickly, look for mentorship, and grow your scope over time

Tags: Early Career FT - Engineering

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