Senior Software Engineer - Storage

San Mateo, CA💼 Full-time💰 $243,290–$243,290🗓 2026-08-28 → 2026-09-26

Core

Designing, implementing, and running large-scale distributed storage systems (caching, message queues) and internal Infra-as-a-Service offerings for Roblox's platform.

Role type

Senior IC distributed systems engineer (storage/infra)

Builds

Internal Infra-as-a-Service offerings, large distributed 24x7 services, automation frameworks for cluster management and monitoring

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, container orchestration

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Designing large-scale distributed systems, container orchestration (Kubernetes/Nomad), service discovery (Consul), Go/Java/C++ programming, test automation, telemetry stack usage

Preferred skills

Active/Active distributed system architecture, high availability design, cost-efficient scaling strategies

Technologies

Kubernetes, Nomad, Consul, Grafana, Prometheus, AlertManager, Kibana, Go, Java, C++

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