Roblox is a company focused on building tools and platforms for immersive digital experiences. The Software Engineer on the Cache team will innovate and operate large-scale, in-house distributed systems to address caching challenges while ensuring data security and high availability.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Security, Product, and Engineering teams to collect requirements, drive and influence the strategy to define the data security for all of Roblox storage systems, including OLTP databases, Object store, Queue, Search etc
• Have a leading role in designing, implementing and running our storage Infra-as-a-Service offerings, particularly hardening the data security and availability aspects
• Improve & scale our large distributed 24x7 services and deliver features with urgency, cost efficiency, zero down time and high reliability
• Design and build frameworks or tools to automate development, testing deployment, management and monitoring of mission critical services
• Collaborate with partner teams, producing project work plans, measurable metrics, delivery milestones, rollout plan, on-call alerts and runbooks while leveraging existing technology stack
• Give a high level of attention to create high quality & reusable code, keep development continuously without compromising site reliability
• Improve SLA of the offering services and end-end rollout time of our suite of software solutions

Skills

• Strong interest designing & delivering large-scale distributed systems handling millions of real-time requests per second
• Data management knowledge in one or more following technologies: RDBMS (CockroachDB, SQL Server, PostGres, MySQL, RDB) Caching(Redis), Kafka , KV store(DynamoDB, Cassandra), OLAP(ClickHouse), Object Storage (Ceph) is a plus
• Experience building deployment pipelines on top of container orchestrators like Kubernetes or Nomad and service discovery systems like Consul
• Experience with programming languages like Go, Rust, Java or C++
• Scripting and test automation abilities
• Experience with telemetry stacks, like Grafana, Prometheus monitoring, AlertManager and Kibana
• BS degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science, 1-3 years of hands on experience

Benefits

• All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on [this page](https://careers.roblox.com/total-rewards).
• Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

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