2 months ago
San Mateo, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$243k - $295k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build service mesh infrastructure for communication across hybrid Kubernetes and Nomad environments at massive scale.
- Integrate service mesh capabilities with Kubernetes, including sidecar injection, mutual TLS, traffic policies, and production observability.
- Build networking foundations for Cloud Bursting, including service discovery, traffic management, and locality-aware routing across on-premises and cloud environments.
- Partner with application teams to address connectivity challenges and provide a frictionless platform for developers.
- Collaborate with Gateway and CNI teams to deliver a unified multi-cluster service fabric.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across 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 and serve as a primary escalation point for complex service mesh issues.
Requirements
- 6+ 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, mutual TLS, observability, and routing policies.
- Production Kubernetes experience 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/C++, or Rust.
- Experience with on-call rotations and a reliability-first infrastructure mindset.
Benefits
- Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and company benefits.
- Headquarters-based roles in San Mateo, California are onsite Tuesday through Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday.
- The company provides reasonable accommodations during the recruiting process for qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs.
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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.