Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Compute

Job Summary

The Infrastructure Compute Site Reliability Engineering mission at Roblox involves owning and managing the successful operation of our underlying cell infrastructure system, along with elements of service discovery, secrets management, and related software layers. We are seeking a skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer with strong programming skills to help build Roblox's private cloud, productionize our growing Kubernetes-based infrastructure, and institute reliability best practices across the Roblox Compute team.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop systems & libraries that promote fault-tolerance and resilience
• Automate much of the management and lifecycle of our clusters
• Ensure systems are observable
• Promote and institute reliability best practices across the Infra Compute group
• Drive common reliability initiatives
• Provide collaborative technical reviews and operational guidance to strengthen system reliability
• Create tooling that provides production guardrails, evaluate release candidate capacity with load testing tooling before deploying to production
• Create performance monitoring services and observability towards understanding capacity issues and platform degradations, monitor production services and their changes, like generalized canarying services with alerting
• Analyze systems and system designs for production readiness

Requirements

• Bachelor degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science or related engineering field
• At least 6 years as an SRE or Software Engineer
• Fluency with high-level programming languages like Go, Java, C#
• Experience with Kubernetes, or similar orchestration systems
• Experience and good habits around building software and tools and getting them adopted

Qualifications

• Your system's focus advises a view of code needing to be deeply reliable
• You are a Partner: You know that the best tools integrate broadly with the tooling ecosystem. You approach partners and processes with curiosity and seek to understand a problem deeply before you start coding.
• You are a Developer: You love building durable and reliable complex systems.
• You are a Problem Solver: You ask the right questions to tackle issues within your expertise and you use data to test your theories.
• You are a Planner: You have experience in large project lifecycles. You have experience working in sprints, breaking down complex tasks into achievements, and reporting status to keep project scheduling accurate.

Benefits

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.

Pay

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.

Location

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.