Principal Software Engineer - Roblox Database
Principal Software Engineer - Roblox Database
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Job Description
Robloxs database team develops the next-generation multi-tenant database platform that elastically scales and underpins every online data workload at Roblox. As a principal engineer on the database team you will shape the architecture build and launch critical database capabilities that keep our services fast reliable and efficient at global scale. You will report to the Technical Director for Storage.
You will:
- Design and implement new engine featuresindexing storage formats WAL and replication protocols sharding and query-planner enhancementsthat push latency throughput and availability boundaries.
- Evolve the control plane to deliver elastic scaling autonomous healing and zero-downtime schema or tenant moves across global regions.
- Profile and optimize critical code paths using kernel-level tracing and advanced performance tooling; drive systematic tail-latency reductions.
- Establish engineering best practices by leading design reviews performance benchmarks failure drills and post-incident retrospectives.
- Automate everything: develop frameworks for testing CI/CD rollout safety observability and autoscaling so that the platform operates hands-off at scale.
- Mentor and unblock engineers fostering deep database craftsmanship and disseminating knowledge across Storage Platform and product teams.
- Engage with the open-source communityupstreaming patches presenting learnings and influencing the future of Postgres RocksDB and related ecosystems.
You have:
- 8 years of experience in software engineering or a relevant field
- Deep experience with building and operatinglarge-scale distributed databases or storage engines (e.g. PostgreSQL MySQL/InnoDB RocksDB Spanner Aurora AlloyDB).
- Deep expertise indatabase internalsB-trees MVCC WAL query optimization buffer managementand strong skills in C/C GO or Rust.
- Hands-on experience withconsensus algorithms (Raft Paxos) and multi-region replication models that deliver strong consistency and high availability.
- Proven success shippinghigh-QPS low-latency services on container orchestration stacks (Kubernetes or Nomad) with comprehensive observability.
- Ability to turn ambiguous product requirements into a clear technical roadmap and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
- Passion forautomation rigorous testing and data-driven decision-making that raises the reliability and efficiency bar.
- Bonus: upstream contributions to PostgreSQL RocksDB or other OSS databases; familiarity with disaggregated storage HTAP workloads or custom query languages.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full Time
