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Data Center Operations Engineer
2 years ago
Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to Roblox to play, learn, work, and socialize in immersive digital experiences created by the community. Our vision is to build a platform that enables shared experiences among billions of users. This is what’s known as the metaverse: a persistent space where anyone can do just about anything they can imagine, from anywhere in the world and on any device. Join us and you’ll usher in a new category of human interaction while solving exceptional challenges that you won’t find anywhere else.
As a Data Center Operations Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in helping us scale our Data Center and hardware infrastructure at a time of incredible growth for our business. At Roblox, you’ll have boundless opportunities to shape the future of the Imagination Platform™ and demonstrate your passion for delivering awesome solutions in front of a global audience. If you know what it takes to build and operate hardware infrastructure that can sustain millions of concurrent players year-round and you take play as seriously as we do, you’ll fit right into our highly-skilled and ever-expanding engineering team.
You are:
- Experienced: You have been working in a fast paced Data Center Infrastructure environment for at least 3 years. Extensive experience in installing, monitoring, and maintaining data center equipment. This includes brand new deployments. Proficiency in at least one of the following: shell scripting, Perl, Java, Python or Ruby. Experienced in Linux, Unix, and Windows Operating Systems
- A troubleshooting connoisseur : You come ready for action wielding a wealth of server and network hardware troubleshooting support; across a wide range of commercial-off-the-shelf hardware brands. Additionally, you have in-depth knowledge of data center environments, servers, and network equipment.
- Self-organized : You’re excited about getting in front of complex problems, effectively organizing your work to get the job done by any means possible; overcoming emergent high-impact issues and contributing to long-running projects comes naturally to you. You are also driven to complete tasks. Able to act on a well-defined task with manager support.
- Problem Solver: You ask the right questions to solve issues within your expertise and you use data to test your theories. You are able to formulate and identify problems, generate and evaluate a variety of solutions (some of which are novel), and implement the best one(s).
- Installer: You have installed various equipment that commonly resides in the data center environment. Able to lift up to 75 pounds on some occasions.
You will:
- Develop and maintain the Data Center and hardware infrastructure solutions to meet the large scale and real-time requirements of our Imagination Platform™ to ensure our community has an awesome experience anywhere in the world. This includes all aspects of the server and network infrastructure.
- Identify and solve critical problems and prevent them from re-occurring via root cause analysis and giving recommendations to improve automation. This would include break/fix tasks related to the hardware and network infrastructure.
- Create, influence, and improve the development platform, infrastructure, standards, and methods to ensure the goal of scalability and high availability can be achieved.
- Participate in the on-call rotation for our critical infrastructure.
You’ll Love:
- Industry-leading compensation package
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- A rewarding 401k program
- Flexible vacation policy
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- At Roblox HQ:
- Free catered lunches
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
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