Principal Software Engineer
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Job Location:
San Mateo, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Are you a seasoned engineer with a passion for reliability and scalability Were looking for exceptional Software Engineers with hands-on AI/ML experience to join the Reliability this pivotal role you will drive the evolution of our systems ensuring they meet the highest standards of performance reliability and efficiency. Youll collaborate with cross-functional teams to build robust infrastructure that supports our growth.
If you have a track record of solving complex technical challenges we want to meet you. We are the team that built the C3 and TACO systems mentioned in The Infrastructure Supporting Record-Breaking Experiences.
Join us in shaping the future of our platform and delivering unparalleled value to our users. At Roblox our vision is to achieve 1 billion daily active users. We believe this engineer will be instrumental in driving us towards that ambitious goal.
You Will:
- Lead a team of engineers (4) to drive multi quarter projects to scale Roblox and make systems more efficient.
- Build systems that leverage AI and ML to scale services and workloads across multiple geographical regions.
- Build automate and standardize process automation to create a golden path of tooling and platform support that powers the fundamental Roblox ecosystem.
- Create performance monitoring services and observability towards understanding capacity issues and platform degradations.
- Work with product teams across organizations to understand their most critical problems and solve them with software systems.
You Have:
- Experience: you have a BS degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science or related engineering field with at least 8 years of experience including at least 5 years in Software Engineering or SRE.
- Passion for systems: You have a track record of building distributed systems and getting them adopted. You care about reliability efficiency and user experience.
- Technical Leadership: Ability to lead coach and mentor junior engineers
- Experience optimizing end-to-end performance of distributed systems including workload right-sizing and resource utilization tuning.
- Deep curiosity for how things work under the hood and have a proven ability to work independently to solve opaque performance issues
- Deep expertise in distributed systems at scale with a strong focus on infrastructure reliability scalability and continuous improvement.
You Are:
- A Partner: You know that the best tools integrate broadly with the tooling ecosystem. You approach partners and processes with curiosity and seek to understand a problem deeply before you start coding.
- A Builder: You design and build systems and products. You are hands on and proficient in at least one programming language (e.g. Python Go C# Rust Java) and embrace AI coding agents.
- Self-organized: youre excited about getting in front of complex problems organizing your work by any means possible; overcome emergent issues and contributing to long-running projects as a part of the team.
- Problem Solver: you ask the right questions to solve issues within your expertise and you use data to test your theories.
- Planner - You have experience in large project lifecycles. You have experienced working in sprints breaking down complex tasks into milestones and reporting status to keep project scheduling accurate.
- Leader - Proven ability to Tech Lead a group of engineers to deliver on multi quarter projects
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About Company
Roblox is the ultimate virtual universe that lets you create, share experiences with friends, and be anything you can imagine. Join millions of people and discover an infinite variety of immersive experiences created by a global community!
