Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Services

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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.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll develop tooling, libraries, services, and frameworks that provide resiliency and promote reliability.

You Will:

Create libraries that promote fault-tolerance and resilience– like retries, circuit breakers, and adaptive concurrency limits.
Build, automate and standardize process automation to create a "golden path" of tooling and platform support, that powers the fundamental Roblox ecosystem.
Create tooling that provides production guardrails, for example evaluating release candidate capacity with load testing tooling before deploying to production.
Create performance monitoring services and observability towards understanding capacity issues and platform degradations.
Create tooling that monitors production services and their changes, like generalized canarying services with alerting.

You Have:

Experience: you have a BS degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science or related engineering field with at least 4 years of experience including at least 2 years in SRE/DevOps Tools or Software Engineering.
Passion for systems: You have experience and good habits around building software and tools and getting them adopted. Your system's focus informs a view of code needing to be deeply reliable.

You Are:

A Partner: You know that the best tools integrate broadly with the tooling ecosystem. You approach partners and processes with curiosity and seek to understand a problem deeply before you start coding.
A Coder: you have experience writing common programming languages (Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Go, Java…).
Self-organized: you're excited about getting in front of complex problems, organizing your work by any means possible; overcome emergent issues and contributing to long-running projects as a part of the team.
Problem Solver: you ask the right questions to solve issues within your expertise and you use data to test your theories.
Planner - You have experience in large project lifecycles. You have experienced working in sprints, breaking down complex tasks into milestones, and reporting status to keep project scheduling accurate.

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.

Annual Salary Range

$218,540—$283,780 USD

You’ll Love:

Industry-leading compensation package
Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
A rewarding 401k program
Flexible vacation policy
Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
At Roblox HQ:

Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
Annual CalTrain Go Pass

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