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Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure Resource Efficiency
1 year ago
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.
At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
As a software engineer in the infrastructure resource efficiency organization, you will be part of a highly-driven team to optimize the efficiency, and the overall performance of Roblox services running on our massive hybrid infrastructure across the globe.
You will work across functional teams to identify service or infrastructure bottlenecks, monitor resource consumption, devise optimize strategies for resource efficiency improvements, and forecast our long-term service demand. You will be driving the efficiency culture within Roblox to support hundreds of millions of users.
You will design and implement performance evaluation frameworks, tooling, and efficiency enhancements to core infrastructure products. Your work will have a direct impact on all engineers at Roblox and the success of our business.
You have
- BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related field with equivalent practical experience
- 6+years of industry experience in infrastructure resource management (CPU, memory, I/O, etc.), performance engineering, performance tooling, for large-scale distributed systems
- Passion for production efficiency, health, reliability and sustainability
- Love for building and supporting networks, systems and large scale distributed infrastructure.
- Strong customer, team, and quality focus
You will
- Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to identify and drive efficiency improvement initiatives.
- Establish and maintain a pipeline of performance and efficiency metrics to support data-driven decisions.
- Create tools to evaluate performance, monitor resource utilization, analyze bottlenecks and discover improvement opportunities in large-scale distributed systems.
- Design, implement and maintain resource efficiency products that empower other Roblox engineering teams to optimize services and provide automatic remediation.
- Enable accurate service demand forecasts with performance metrics to unlock cost saving potentials.
For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.
Annual Salary Range
$315,850 — $383,910 USD
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 five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
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