Principal Software Engineer - Data Access

Roblox

3 months ago

San Mateo, CA, USA

Staff+

H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$289k - $338k/yr

Responsibilities

Partner with Product, Engineering, and Security teams to define long-term strategy and technical requirements for the Data Access platform.
Lead the architecture, implementation, and operation of storage Infra-as-a-Service offerings.
Improve and scale large distributed 24x7 services with high reliability and zero downtime.
Design and build frameworks or tools for automating development, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Collaborate with partner teams to produce project work plans and measurable metrics.
Create high-quality and reusable code while maintaining site reliability.
Improve SLAs and reduce rollout time for critical storage and data-access features.

Strong experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems handling millions of real-time requests per second.
Deep data management knowledge in technologies like RDBMS, Caching, Kafka, and KV stores.
Experience building deployment pipelines on container orchestrators like Kubernetes.
Proficiency in programming languages such as Rust, Go, Java, or C++.
Strong scripting and test automation abilities.
Familiarity with telemetry stacks like Grafana and Prometheus.
BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience with at least 7 years of hands-on experience.

Amazon DynamoDBApache CassandraApache KafkaC++ConsulGoGrafanaJavaKibanaKubernetesMicrosoft SQL ServerMySQLPostgreSQLPrometheusRedisRust