Senior Software Engineer, Reliability
Roblox · San Mateo, CA, United States
About this role
## About Roblox Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences—built 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 they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine how 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 we’re looking for amazing talent to help us get there. ## Role: Senior Software Engineer, Reliability Are you a seasoned engineer with a passion for reliability and scalability? Join the Reliability team at Roblox. In this pivotal role, you’ll drive the evolution of our systems—ensuring they meet the highest standards of performance, reliability, and efficiency—while collaborating with cross-functional teams to build robust infrastructure that supports our growth. ## You Will - Create libraries that promote fault-tolerance and resilience (e.g., retries, circuit breakers, adaptive concurrency limits). - Build, automate, and standardize process automation to create a “golden path” of tooling and platform support for the Roblox ecosystem. - Create tooling that provides production guardrails (e.g., evaluating release candidate capacity with load testing before deploying to production). - Build performance monitoring services and observability to understand capacity issues and platform degradations. - Create tooling that monitors production services and their changes (e.g., generalized canarying services with alerting). ## You Have - **Experience:** BS degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science or related engineering field, with **4+ years** of experience (SRE/Site Reliability experience is a plus). - **Passion for systems:** Experience building software and tools that get adopted; your system focus informs a view of code that must be deeply reliable. ## You Are - **A Partner:** Understands how tools integrate broadly with the ecosystem; approaches problems with curiosity and seeks deep understanding before coding. - **A Coder:** Experience with common programming languages (Go, C#, Java, etc.). - **Self-organized:** Excited to tackle complex problems, organize work effectively, and contribute to long-running projects. - **Problem Solver:** Asks the right questions, uses data to test theories, and resolves issues within your expertise. - **Planner:** Experience with large project lifecycles, including sprint planning, breaking work into milestones, and reporting status. ## Pay & Location Notes - **San Mateo, CA (HQ) roles:** Starting base pay range: **$243,290–$295,250 USD** (actual base pay depends on job-related factors). Equity and benefits are also available. - Office roles are **onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday** (optional presence Monday/Friday unless otherwise noted). ## Equal Opportunity Roblox is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations during the recruiting process. For US-based roles only: Roblox may not be able to employ candidates for certain US visa categories and may not support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
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