Principal Software Engineer - Creator Distributed Systems & Storage at Roblox — Remote North America

Principal Software Engineer - Creator Distributed Systems & Storage at Roblox — Remote North America | RemoteJobs

You Will:

Lead the design and development of improvements to existing products and design new cloud services to support our Creator Community.

Build state-of-the-art data storage systems including infrastructure, serving layers, clients, and web APIs.

Expand the internal and customer facing cloud service observability capabilities through metrics collection, data pipelines, intelligent analytics, data visualization, and dashboards.

Increase the capabilities and onboard new customers to the Roblox Extended Services platform.

Work with our users (Creators) to identify product gaps and bugs and handle customer emergencies.

Provide on-call support for our Data products including responding to production alerts and outages.

Mentor junior engineers and provide technical and non-technical guidance through design and code reviews, joint projects, 1:1s, and peer feedback.

Lead collaborations on a cross-functional team including UX design, product management, project management, developer relations, documentation, customer support, and other engineering teams.

Become a recognized technical leader across the company and contribute to company-wide initiatives.

You Have:

10+ years background in software development building with public clouds (AWS, Azure, and GCP), microservices and distributed systems

3+ years experience building and maintaining (not just using) data storage systems (relational databases, key/value stores, blob stores, etc)

10+ years designing, implementing, testing, and deploying robust, scalable, and well documented production-grade code

6+ years programming in C# and/or C++ (ideally both)

6+ years experience working on agile, fast-paced, high-impact software teams

4+ years leading junior engineers and new graduates on complex software engineering projects

Desired (one or more of)

Prior experience building big data pipelines or batch processing systems (MapReduce, Hadoop, Flink, Spark, Flume)

Prior experience programming computer games, particularly in Lua/Luau

Prior knowledge of data science, data analytics, machine learning, or AI

Prior experience building graphical user interfaces, dashboards, or web application front ends

You Are:

Innovative: We strive for novel solutions that bridge the technical needs of Roblox with the creative needs of our developer community. This typically involves tackling competing objectives and thinking creatively.

Passionate: We are looking for new team members who are passionate about data storage technology, computer games, and software development. We are excited about building new products that will redefine the future of human online interaction.

Versatile: The Data Pod is expanding its scope beyond providing low level storage solutions to building higher level services such as User Profiles and LiveOps Analytics. We are also working on projects such as Observability and Billing & Payments platforms. You need to be ready to learn new programming languages and tech stacks as we evolve.

Responsible: Data Storage services cannot go down and cannot lose data. You are committed to join a team that strives for a 100% uptime and data durability.

Team Oriented: You are ready to both guide and learn from others. You will set the standard on team collaboration and communication. You exemplify Roblox Values and Principles.

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.

Principal Software Engineer - Creator Distributed Systems & Storage

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