1 day ago
San Mateo, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$153k - $197k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own well-scoped features and components from design through production rollout within multi-quarter scalability projects.
- Build and improve AI/ML-enabled systems that scale services and workloads across geographic regions.
- Diagnose production performance and efficiency issues using metrics and profiling data, including workload right-sizing and resource tuning.
- Partner with product and infrastructure teams to understand problems and implement software solutions.
- Participate in on-call and incident follow-ups and convert findings into lasting reliability improvements.
- Contribute to code reviews, documentation, milestones, estimates, and shared team goals.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field, or equivalent professional experience, with at least 2 years of experience building backend systems or AI/ML pipelines; internships and research count.
- Strong proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Rust, Go, Java, or C#.
- Solid understanding of distributed-systems concepts including concurrency, networking, caching, load balancing, and failure modes.
- Experience profiling, benchmarking, or tuning a service or pipeline and explaining the resulting improvements.
- Preferred experience with Kubernetes or Nomad, Prometheus or Grafana, or applying ML/forecasting to operational data.
- Ability to learn quickly, collaborate with partner teams, investigate difficult technical problems, and communicate progress and blockers.
Benefits
- Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and benefits.
- For San Mateo headquarters roles, the starting annual base salary is $153,120–$196,750 USD.
- Office-based roles are onsite Tuesday through Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday unless otherwise noted.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
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.