Data Center Engineer

About the role

As a Data Center Engineer at Roblox, you'll help us scale our Core/Edge Data Centers and hardware infrastructure at a time of incredible growth for our business. You'll develop and maintain the data center and hardware infrastructure to meet the large scale and real-time requirements of our Imagination Platform™, ensuring our global community has an awesome experience anywhere in the world. This role reports to the Technical Lead Data Center Engineer.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Core/Edge Data Center and hardware infrastructure, covering server, network, power, and environmental life cycles.
• Own efforts to track and mitigate systemic issues preventing hosts from returning to service.
• Identify and solve critical problems through root cause analysis and recommend improvements to automation.
• Coordinate with peers to establish and uphold best practices for breakfix, install, decommissioning, and other data center operations.
• Create, influence, and improve development platforms, infrastructure, standards (Runbooks, SOPs, MOPs), and methods to ensure scalability and high availability.
• Leverage partnerships across teams to automate maintenance actions that do not require physical intervention.
• Encourage an environment of continuous improvement and learning among engineering staff.
• Assist in coordinating vendors and ensuring quality of outsourced projects.
• Participate in the on-call rotation for critical infrastructure.
• Travel internationally and domestically up to 50% of the time, depending on business needs.

Requirements

• At minimum 6+ years of experience working in large-scale Data Center Infrastructure environments, including planning, executing, and documenting repairs in server and networking domains.
• Extensive experience installing, monitoring, and maintaining server and network equipment, including new provisioning.
• In-depth knowledge of data center environments, servers, and network equipment.
• Proven experience executing on multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to install various data center equipment and lift 75 pounds occasionally.

Qualifications

• Ready for action with a wealth of server and network hardware troubleshooting knowledge.
• Excited about tackling complex problems and organizing work to address high-impact issues.
• Enjoys building processes and procedures for daily workloads and developing new team capabilities.
• Adept at asking the right questions, using data to test theories, and formulating solutions to problems.
• Committed to professionalism in all interactions, fostering trust, and upholding the team and company’s reputation.

Pay

For roles based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA, the starting annual salary range is $126,810—$153,900 USD. The actual base pay depends on professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs, and market demand. All full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and benefits.

Schedule

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday.