1 day ago
San Mateo, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$295k - $345k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build the S3-compatible object store, metadata and indexing systems, data placement and tiering, and multi-tenant isolation.
- Own the technical strategy, multi-year architecture, build-versus-buy decisions, and migration from cloud object storage.
- Evolve the control plane for elastic scaling, autonomous healing, self-service provisioning, and zero-downtime tenant moves.
- Operate the bare-metal fleet, including cluster lifecycle, upgrades, rebalancing, failure domains, hardware planning, and capacity planning.
- Profile and optimize critical data paths to improve tail latency and cost per byte.
- Establish design reviews, benchmarks, failure drills, post-incident retrospectives, and reliability practices targeting 4+ 9s.
- Automate testing, rollout safety, observability, and autoscaling.
- Mentor engineers and collaborate with security, analytics, and product teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering or a relevant field.
- Deep experience building and operating large-scale distributed storage, such as object stores, blob stores, or distributed file systems, at petabyte scale or beyond.
- Hands-on production experience with object storage platforms, including data placement, rebalancing, erasure coding, cluster tuning, and upgrades at scale.
- Strong skills in C++, Go, or Rust.
- Deep understanding of durability, replication, geo-replication, consistency trade-offs, and blast-radius containment.
- Experience shipping high-throughput, low-latency services on bare-metal, on-premises fleets with strong observability.
- Ability to turn ambiguous requirements into clear roadmaps and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
- Passion for automation, rigorous testing, and data-driven decisions.
- Preferred experience includes upstream contributions to open-source storage projects, S3 API compatibility at scale, NVMe/HDD tiering, or migrating large workloads from public-cloud object storage.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $295,250–$345,040 USD for roles based at headquarters in San Mateo, California.
- Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and company benefits.
- Office-based roles are onsite Tuesday through Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday unless otherwise noted.
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.