As a Senior Engineer Edge Deployment youll help us scale our Edge Data Center and hardware infrastructure at a time of incredible growth for our business. At Roblox youll have boundless opportunities to shape the future of the Imagination Platform and demonstrate your passion for delivering thoughtful solutions in front of a global audience. If you know what it takes to build and operate hardware infrastructure that can sustain millions of concurrent players year-round and you take play as seriously as we do youll fit right into our highly experienced and ever-expanding engineering team. You will report to the Technical Lead of Edge Operations. This will be a hybrid position based in Chicago IL.
You will:
- Develop and maintain the Edge Data Center and hardware infrastructure to meet the large-scale and real-time requirements of our Imagination Platform to ensure our community has an awesome experience anywhere in the world. This includes all aspects of the server network infrastructure power and environmental monitoring.
- Identify and solve critical problems and prevent them from re-occurring via root cause analysis and giving recommendations to improve automation.
- Create influence and improve the development platform infrastructure standards (Runbooks SOPs MOPs) and methods to ensure the goal of scalability and high availability can be achieved.
- Participate in the on-call rotation for our critical infrastructure.
- Build and implement Edge/POP sites around the world including low voltage cabling creating BOMs vendor management.
- Travel: International and Domestic travel may be required 25% of the time and up to 50% of time depending on needs of the business.
- Collaborate closely with our internal customers to address their needs and concerns while also shaping future iterations of data center and network designs to ensure smooth integration of new infrastructure and support scalability.
You have:
- You have at least 3 years of experience working in large-scale data center infrastructure environments with significant expertise in installing monitoring and maintaining server and network equipment including deploying new servers and networks.
- In-depth knowledge of data center environments servers and network equipment.
- You have experience collaborating with smart hands teams colocation facilities and managed service providers.
- Proven experience executing on multiple tasks simultaneously.
- You have installed various equipment that commonly resides in the data center environment and are able to lift 75 pounds occasionally.
You are:
- Someone who is ready for action wielding a wealth of server and network hardware troubleshooting support across multiple commercial-off-the-shelf hardware brands.
- Excited about getting in front of complex problems and can effectively organize your work to overcome emergent high-impact issues.
- Someone who enjoys building processes and procedures for the day to execute our workload and for developing new capabilities as a team.
- Someone who asks the right questions to solve issues within your expertise and you use data to test your theories. You are able to formulate and identify problems generate and evaluate a variety of solutions (some of which are novel) and implement the best one(s).
Required Experience:
Senior IC