Roblox · 2 weeks ago
Principal Software Engineer - Data Access
San Mateo, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$294K/yr - $343K/yr
7+ years expRoblox is a platform where millions explore, create, and connect through immersive digital experiences. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer for Data Access to architect and build a managed OLTP data access layer, ensuring high scalability, global availability, and security for their data systems.
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Responsibilities
Partner with Product, Engineering, and Security teams to define long‑term strategy and technical requirements for the Data Access platform
Lead the architecture, implementation, and operation of our storage Infra‑as‑a‑Service offerings, setting the engineering bar for scalability, reliability, and system hardening across teams
Improve and scale our large distributed 24x7 services and deliver features with urgency, cost efficiency, zero down time, and high reliability
Design and build frameworks or tools to automate development, testing, deployment, management, and monitoring of mission critical services
Collaborate with partner teams, producing project work plans, measurable metrics, delivery milestones, rollout plans, oncall alerts, and runbooks while leveraging existing technology stack
Give a high level of attention to creating high quality and reusable code, keeping development continuous without compromising site reliability
Improve SLAs across the platform and reduce end‑to‑end rollout time for critical storage and data-access features
Qualification
Required
Strong experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems handling millions of real-time requests per second
Deep data management knowledge in one or more of the following technologies: RDBMS (CockroachDB, SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, RDB), Caching (Redis), Kafka, KV store (DynamoDB, Cassandra)
Strong experience building deployment pipelines on top of container orchestrators like Kubernetes or Nomad and service discovery systems like Consul
Strong experience with programming languages like Rust, Go, Java, or C++
Strong scripting and test automation abilities
Experience with telemetry stacks, like Grafana, Prometheus, AlertManager, and Kibana
BS degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science, with at least 7 years of hands-on experience
Benefits
Equity compensation
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Company
Roblox
Roblox is an online gaming and entertainment platform that offers a shared digital experience that brings people together through play.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$874.45MKey Investors
Andreessen HorowitzAltos Ventures
2024-10-01Post Ipo Equity
2022-04-12Series Unknown· $17.71M
2021-08-11Series Unknown
Leadership Team
David Baszucki
Founder and CEO
Michael Guthrie
CFO
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