Senior Software Engineer Queue
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Job Location:
San Mateo, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Infrastructure Storage organization is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Queue this role you will play a critical part in evolving and operating our in-house large-scale distributed queue system based on Apache Kafka. Your work will directly support Robloxs ever-increasing need for high-performance queue business capabilities as the system currently handles tens of trillions of events daily.
You will:
- Lead the advancement and massive scaling of our 24x7 distributed queue service. This critical system is vital for handling a wide range of services including analytics matchmaking trust-safety economy and database changefeed events. A key objective is to transition current Amazon SQS traffic to this in-house platform
- Play a leading role in the design implementation and operation of our internal Infra-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings built on top of a container orchestration platform
- Design and build robust frameworks and tools to automate the development testing cluster management and monitoring of our mission-critical services
- Drive improvements to the Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for our offerings and reduce the end-to-end rollout time for our suite of software solutions
You have:
- Proven experience in designing delivering and operating large-scale distributed systems that manage billions of real-time requests per second
- Deep expertise in one or more messaging technologies such as Apache Kafka or similar systems
- A builders mindset and experience running large-scale Active/Active distributed systems leveraging container orchestrators (e.g. Kubernetes or Nomad) and service discovery systems (e.g. Consul)
- Proficiency in programming languages like Go Java or C
- A Bachelors degree in Computer Science (or equivalent professional experience) with at least 3 years of hands-on working experience
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
About Company
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