Base Salary
$345k - $399k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the overall technical direction for three Fleet Management pods across provisioning, data plane, control plane, and product surfaces.
- Architect declarative Kubernetes-style control planes for Roblox’s compute fleet across on-premises and cloud environments.
- Design internal customer contracts and APIs that safely govern fleet-wide automation.
- Drive self-service capacity strategy and internal products and UIs for requesting and managing compute.
- Own security, maintenance operations, and uptime for Roblox Kubernetes clusters and define reliable fleet-wide change processes.
- Partner with infrastructure and other stakeholders to support backend services, AI, and edge computing.
- Write code daily and lead difficult systems design and implementation work.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure.
- Track record as a technical anchor who sets direction across multiple teams and develops engineers.
- Strong proficiency in Go and experience designing and operating production services at fleet scale.
- Hands-on experience building declarative, Kubernetes-style control planes and reconciliation patterns.
- Strong proficiency with gRPC, SQL, and Postgres for service APIs and durable high-scale state.
- Experience operating compute capacity across on-premises data centers and cloud providers at the scale of hundreds of thousands of instances.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration experience across and beyond infrastructure.
Benefits
- Equity compensation and employee benefits are available to full-time employees.
- Office-based roles are onsite Tuesday through Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday.
- The role is based at Roblox headquarters in San Mateo, California.
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.