Senior Software Engineer - Observability

Roblox • San Mateo, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

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.
The Observability team owns the entire stack of Telemetry, Distributed Tracing, and Logs, including instrumentation libraries, data processing pipelines, data storage, and the visualization UI. We provide the vital signs for our software components that support our platform. We believe in a user-centric strategy, and we are focused on making an impact for all the teams we support. As a Senior Software Engineer in the Observability team.

Requirements

• 5+ years of working experience and experience in building, maintaining, and evolving large-scale distributed systems.
• You understand all the components required to build modern, large-scale infrastructure. You own the end-to-end availability and performance of critical services to reduce operational overhead.
• You also love to pick up new technologies as the landscape evolves.
• Passionate about mentoring junior engineers, with the ability to earn their respect and help them stretch themselves to build great software and level up their technical knowledge.
• You hold a BS in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent experience); a master's degree or higher is a definite plus.

Nice To Haves

• Previous contributions to the Open Source Community and experience leveraging the latest AI technology for incident detection and mitigation are a big plus.
• a master's degree or higher is a definite plus.

Responsibilities

• Work with our business partners to define the vision and roadmap, and lead end-to-end project execution.
• Take full ownership of the existing observability infrastructure, ensuring it is scalable, reliable, and easy to use, while also enhancing it with new features and functionality.
• You will take the long view to architect the next-generation Observability Infrastructures that can smoothly handle tens of billions of active time series and PBs of log and tracing data every day.
• Follow and expand our vision to put the Roblox community first and get things done.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level