5 months ago
San Mateo, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$295k - $345k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architectural transition to a multitenant caching service built on ValKey with strict tenant data, resource, and failure isolation.
- Optimize head-of-line blocking, hot keys, CPU utilization, and memory utilization across physical machine clusters.
- Build automation frameworks for development, chaos testing, fault and latency injection, and monitoring of mission-critical services.
- Drive design reviews, performance benchmarking, failure drills, and blameless post-incident retrospectives.
- Mentor engineers and promote domain expertise and knowledge sharing across Storage, Platform, and Product teams.
Requirements
- A BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience is required.
- At least 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience is required.
- Deep expertise building and operating large-scale distributed systems is required.
- Experience running Active/Active distributed systems on Kubernetes or Nomad is required.
- Strong hands-on programming experience in Go and C++ is required.
- A proven track record resolving massive-scale distributed-systems bottlenecks and partial failures is required.
- Hands-on experience with telemetry and observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager, and Kibana is required.
- Open-source contributions to or maintenance of Redis, ValKey, or Memcached are preferred.
- Experience with custom Redis modules in C or Rust, Lua scripting, or jemalloc tuning is preferred.
- Experience with Twemproxy, Envoy Redis filter, and complex multi-tier caching architectures is preferred.
Benefits
- Equity compensation and employee benefits are available to full-time employees.
- Office-based roles are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday.
- Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodation support are provided.
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.