Senior Software Engineer - Data Access

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 Data Access team within Infra / Storage builds EaaS (Entities-as-a-Service),

Roblox’s large-scale managed OLTP access and management platform powering tens

of millions of QPS across thousands of services.

EaaS abstracts the complexity of distributed databases and caching systems

behind a consistent and productive developer experience, enabling teams across

Roblox to safely build and operate stateful systems at massive scale without

requiring deep database expertise.

The team operates at the intersection of distributed systems engineering,

reliability engineering, and platform architecture — solving hard infrastructure

problems that directly impact Roblox-wide scale and stability.

As a Senior Software Engineer you will work on some of Roblox’s hardest backend

infrastructure challenges around scalability, reliability, workload governance,

adaptive flow control, and distributed systems.

YOU WILL

* Build and evolve EaaS, Roblox’s managed OLTP access platform powering tens of

millions of QPS across hundreds of services.

* Design infrastructure that abstracts distributed databases and caching

systems behind a consistent, safe, and highly productive developer

experience.

* Drive reliability and scalability improvements across distributed systems,

including adaptive flow control, workload isolation and governance, and

large-scale caching behavior.

* Lead end-to-end technical execution architecture, implementation, rollout,

production operations, and incident response for mission-critical

infrastructure systems.

* Analyze real production traffic patterns and failure modes to improve

platform reliability, operational predictability, and scalability under

rapidly growing workloads.

* Improve platform safety, observability, deployment reliability, and

operational excellence across the stack.

* Partner with teams across Roblox to solve real scalability and reliability

challenges for critical production workloads.

YOU HAVE

* Experience building large-scale infrastructure abstractions that standardize

access to complex backend systems across broad engineering organizations.

* Experience designing or operating adaptive rate limiting, flow control,

workload governance, or reliability automation systems in high-scale

production environments.

* Experience operating or building systems around distributed databases,

caching systems, OLTP platforms, or stateful infrastructure.

* Experience driving complex technical initiatives end-to-end with strong

ownership and cross-functional collaboration.

* Strong hands-on experience building and operating large-scale distributed

systems and backend infrastructure in production environments.

* Strong programming skills in Rust, Go, C++, Java or similar backend systems

languages.

* BS degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science, with

at least 6 years of hands-on experience.

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 as

described on this page [https://careers.roblox.com/total-rewards].

Annual Salary Range

$243,290—$295,250 USD

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday,

with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants

for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without

regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status,

genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or

expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local

laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with

qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ

candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to

certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.