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 Observability team owns the entire stack of Telemetry, Distributed Tracing, and Logs, including instrumentation libraries, data processing pipelines, data storage, and the visualization UI. We provide the vital signs for our software components that support our platform. We believe in a user-centric strategy, and we are focused on making an impact for all the teams we support.As a Senior Software Engineer in the Observability team.
You Will:- Work with our business partners to define the vision and roadmap, and lead end-to-end project execution.
- Take full ownership of the existing observability infrastructure, ensuring it is scalable, reliable, and easy to use, while also enhancing it with new features and functionality.
- You will take the long view to architect the next-generation Observability Infrastructures that can smoothly handle tens of billions of active time series and PBs of log and tracing data every day.
- Follow and expand our vision to put the Roblox community first and get things done.
- This is a Hybrid role located in our San Mateo headquarters. You are required to be in the HQ office 3 days a week (Tues-Thurs). #LI-Hybrid
You Have: - 5+ years of working experience and experience in building, maintaining, and evolving large-scale distributed systems.
- You understand all the components required to build modern, large-scale infrastructure. You own the end-to-end availability and performance of critical services to reduce operational overhead.
- You also love to pick up new technologies as the landscape evolves. Previous contributions to the Open Source Community and experience leveraging the latest AI technology for incident detection and mitigation are a big plus.
- Passionate about mentoring junior engineers, with the ability to earn their respect and help them stretch themselves to build great software and level up their technical knowledge.
- You hold a BS in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent experience); a master's degree or higher is a definite plus.
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
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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.
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