7 hours ago
San Mateo, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$295k - $345k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the technical strategy and roadmap for the service mesh, balancing reliability, security, performance, and operating cost.
- Design and build service discovery, routing, load balancing, and traffic-policy capabilities across control-plane and data-plane systems using Envoy, Istio, and related technologies.
- Lead integrations and migrations across Kubernetes, Nomad, and cloud environments with compatibility requirements and safe rollout plans.
- Partner with Security and application teams on workload identity, mutual TLS, and production traffic-policy enforcement.
- Improve resource efficiency and operational reliability through performance analysis, testing, observability, incident response, and deployment automation.
- Lead cross-team technical decisions, write and review production code, and mentor senior engineers.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, including substantial cross-team initiatives.
- Expertise in service mesh, proxies, application gateways, or a closely related infrastructure domain, demonstrated through systems designed, shipped, and operated.
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, service discovery, traffic management, failure isolation, and secure service communication.
- Strong programming skills in Go, C++, Rust, or another systems language, including debugging across application, proxy, control-plane, and operating-system boundaries.
- Production experience operating Kubernetes or comparable orchestration platforms and leading infrastructure migrations or performance improvements.
- Experience with Envoy or Istio internals, xDS, workload identity, or substantive open-source contributions is especially relevant.
- Ability to turn ambiguous problems into technical direction, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and help other engineers lead independently.
Benefits
- Industry-leading compensation package, medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401k program, flexible vacation, and a flexible and supportive work policy.
- Roblox Admin badge for the avatar.
- At Roblox HQ, free catered lunches five times a week, stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks, an onsite fitness center, fitness program credit, and an annual CalTrain Go Pass.
- Office-based roles are onsite Tuesday through Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday.
About Roblox
Roblox builds a platform for user‑generated 3D experiences, offering Roblox Studio for creators and a social marketplace where players explore and interact across devices. Its business model centers on virtual currency (Robux) and subscriptions, platform fees paid to creators, and an expanding advertising offering. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Roblox Corporation is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker RBLX.