Base Salary
$294k - $343k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement database engine features including indexing, storage formats, WAL and replication protocols, sharding, and query-planner enhancements.
- Evolve the control plane for elastic scaling, autonomous healing, and zero-downtime schema or tenant moves across global regions.
- Profile and optimize critical code paths using kernel-level tracing and advanced performance tooling to reduce tail latency.
- Lead design reviews, performance benchmarks, failure drills, and post-incident retrospectives.
- Develop frameworks for testing, CI/CD, rollout safety, observability, and autoscaling.
- Mentor and unblock engineers while spreading database expertise across Storage, Platform, and product teams.
- Contribute to the open-source community through upstream patches, presentations, and ecosystem influence.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering or a relevant field.
- Deep experience building and operating large-scale distributed databases or storage engines, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL/InnoDB, RocksDB, Spanner, Aurora, or AlloyDB.
- Deep knowledge of database internals including B-trees, MVCC, WAL, query optimization, and buffer management.
- Strong programming skills in C/C++, Go, or Rust.
- Hands-on experience with Raft or Paxos consensus algorithms and multi-region replication models supporting strong consistency and high availability.
- Experience shipping high-QPS, low-latency services on Kubernetes or Nomad with comprehensive observability.
- Ability to turn ambiguous product requirements into a technical roadmap and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
- Passion for automation, rigorous testing, and data-driven decision-making.
- Bonus experience with upstream contributions to PostgreSQL, RocksDB, or other open-source databases; disaggregated storage, HTAP workloads, or custom query languages.
Benefits
- Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and benefits.
- Office-based roles are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday.
- The role is based at the Roblox headquarters in San Mateo, California when designated as a headquarters role.
Tech Stack
About Roblox
Roblox's vision is to reimagine the way people come together. Our mission is to connect a billion people with optimism and civility. What is Roblox? Roblox is a platform where people come together virtually to share experiences. Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to Roblox to learn, work, play, connect, communicate, and socialize in immersive digital experiences all built by a global community of creators. Powered by Creators Roblox is powered by a global community of millions of developers and creators who produce their own immersive multiplayer experiences each month using Roblox Studio, our intuitive desktop design tool. Any experience imaginable can be created on Roblox. How Popular? Roblox is ranked as one of the top entertainment platforms for audiences under the age of 18 based on average monthly visits and time spent (Comscore). Our popularity is driven purely by the community with millions of people signing up through word of mouth every month.