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# Senior Software Engineer - Cluster Lifecycle

- **Company:** Roblox
- **Location:** San Mateo, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $227,370.0 - $295,250.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Distributed Systems, Structured Programming, Kubernetes
- **Published:** May 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f7b566c1d66ed74b

## About the Role

* 4+ years of experience
 * Experience working in the Kubernetes ecosystem. Prior experience building Kubernetes operators or building/running Kubernetes distributions preferred.
 * Strong proficiency in Go or other well structured programming languages.
 * Enjoy working on critical, large-scale, cross-platform, multi-tenant distributed systems.
 * Prefer building systems automation over operational and repetitive tasks.
 * An appreciation for working on observability and reliability to build long term sustainable systems

## Description

* Build and evolve a cell primitive for Roblox that runs the backends for the vast majority of Roblox's compute workload.
 * Work closely with other teams in Compute and across the company to develop new features, support for new workloads, and define the right cross-system APIs as we expand the footprint of 'cells'.
 * Safely and reliably manage a critical at-scale system.


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