Senior Software Engineer, Reliability

Roblox•San Mateo, CA

1d•$243,290 - $295,250•Onsite

About The Position

Roblox is seeking a seasoned Software Engineer to join its Reliability team and help evolve systems to meet high standards of performance, reliability, and efficiency. The role collaborates with cross-functional teams to build robust infrastructure supporting the platform’s growth and its goal of reaching 1 billion daily active users. The engineer will develop reliability and resilience libraries, standardize automation and tooling, establish production guardrails, improve observability, and monitor production services and changes.

Requirements

A BS degree or equivalent professional experience in Computer Science or a related engineering field.
At least 4 years of experience.
Experience building software and tools and establishing good practices to encourage their adoption.
Experience writing common programming languages such as Go, C#, or Java.
Experience with large project lifecycles, working in sprints, breaking complex tasks into milestones, and reporting status to keep project scheduling accurate.

Nice To Haves

Experience in the Site Reliability space in SRE or Software Engineering.

Responsibilities

Create libraries that promote fault tolerance and resilience, such as retries, circuit breakers, and 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, such as evaluating release candidate capacity with load-testing tools before production deployment.
Create performance-monitoring services and observability to understand capacity issues and platform degradations.
Create tooling to monitor production services and their changes, such as generalized canarying services with alerting.