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Principal Software Engineer - Observability
2 years 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.
The Team
Software observability provides the vital signs for our software components that subtend the Metaverse. As the three pillars of modern observability, Telemetry, Distributed Tracing, and Logging have become an increasingly important tool when combating issues in microservice architecture with Telemetry revealing eagle view and stats of the vital signs of services, Tracing providing contextual analytics and drill down capability for individual requests/responses, and Logging supplying sure-footed textual evidence.
The Observability Team owns the entire stack of Telemetry, Distributed Tracing, and Logs - from instrumentation libraries of major programming languages, to data processing pipelines, from backend microservices, to visualization UI as well as other components used to build distributed tracing such as storage layers, processors, load balancers, messaging system, etc.
As a team, we believe in fast iteration and are biased toward action. We have numerous exciting projects ahead of us for the years to come, including but not limited to:
- Building entire integrated solutions for Roblox with regards to cross-service issue debugging and diagnosis.
- Building a scalable distributed tracing backend end to end.
- Developing innovative UI and visualization tools.
- Building client instrumentation libraries and new microservices.
- Designing databases and caching layers.
You will:
- Architect the next generation of distributed tracing system / platform and contribute to open source standard
- Lead technical decision making and guide the development team.
- Write code in a diverse ecosystem.
- Report into the Observability Organization.
You are:
- Someone that has architected, designed and developed a wide-array of software products.
- Someone that can thrive in any environment, define problems, and come up with practical solutions.
- An expert in building web applications.
- Someone that has a good grasp of software architecture, technical leadership, and industry best practices
- Someone with 7+ years of experience.
- Holding a bachelors degree (MS degree preferred) in Computer-Science, mathematics, engineering, or equivalent
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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