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Senior Software Engineer- Compute Service Communication
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.
Senior Software Engineer- Compute Service Communication
As a software engineer in the Infra Compute organization you will create, support, and evolve the compute infrastructure at Roblox as we build Roblox's Private Cloud. Come help us create, support and evolve the infra that manages the millions of containers that serve hundreds of millions of requests per second.
The Infra Compute - Service Communication organization oversees:
- Service-to-service communication and networking (proxy management solutions including API Gateway, Traefik, Envoy, and in the future Service Mesh)
- API Frameworks, gRPC clients and in-datacenter communication protocol extensions and support.
- Securing communication between services, providing observability and metrics for end services to debug network issues.
You Are:
- Care deeply about production health and reliable, sustainable production systems
- Love for building and supporting networks, systems and large-scale distributed infrastructure
- 4+ years of experience in compute infrastructure or related field
- Customer, team, and quality oriented and like getting things done
You Will:
- Create, build, and lead our infrastructure to support large scale microservices deployments
- Assist engineering teams on scalable design and implementation of their services in respect to infrastructure tiers such as orchestration and service discovery.
- Optimize and contribute to open source infrastructure software written in golang and other languages
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
$218,540 — $283,780 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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