5 hours ago
San Mateo, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$197k - $243k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build service mesh infrastructure for hybrid Kubernetes and Nomad environments supporting billions of daily requests.
- Integrate the service mesh with Kubernetes, including sidecar injection, mTLS, traffic policies, and observability.
- Build cloud-bursting networking capabilities spanning on-premises data centers and cloud environments.
- Implement service discovery, traffic management, and locality-aware routing across clusters and regions.
- Partner with application teams to provide a frictionless service-mesh platform for developers.
- Collaborate with Gateway and CNI teams on a unified multi-cluster service fabric.
- Troubleshoot complex issues involving Envoy sidecars, the Istio control plane, and the underlying network stack.
- Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices in testing, deployment, and reliability engineering.
- Participate in on-call rotations.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in distributed systems.
- Strong expertise with service mesh technologies such as Istio, Envoy, Consul, or Linkerd.
- Deep knowledge of traffic management, service discovery, mTLS, observability, and routing policies.
- Production experience running Kubernetes and familiarity with the Kubernetes networking model.
- Experience with Envoy proxy internals, xDS APIs, and control-plane architectures.
- Ability to design large-scale distributed systems spanning multiple clusters, regions, and runtime environments.
- Fluency in Go, C++, or Rust.
- Experience with on-call rotations and a reliability-first approach.
Benefits
- Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and benefits.
- For office-based roles, the standard schedule is onsite Tuesday through Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday.
- For San Mateo, California roles, the stated annual base salary range is $196,750–$243,290 USD.
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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.