Senior Software Engineer Roblox DB
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Job Location:
San Mateo, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
5 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Robloxs database team develops the next-generation multi-tenant database platform that elastically scales and underpins every online data workload at Roblox. As a Senior software 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 planeto deliver elastic scaling autonomous healing and zero-downtime schema or tenant moves across global regions.
- Profile and optimizecritical code paths using kernel-level tracing and advanced performance tooling; drive systematic tail-latency reductions.
- Establish engineering best practicesby 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:
- 3 yearsof experience in software engineering or a relevant field
- Deep experience with building and operatinglarge-scale distributed databasesor storage engines (e.g. PostgreSQL MySQL/InnoDB RocksDB Spanner Aurora AlloyDB).
- Deep expertise indatabase internalsB-trees MVCC WAL query optimization buffer managementand strong skills inC/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 serviceson 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-makingthat 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:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- AWS
- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
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