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# Software Engineer - Storage

- **Company:** Roblox
- **Location:** San Mateo, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $243,290.0 - $295,250.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Automation of Tests, C++ (Programming Language), Distributed Systems, Queueing Systems, Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Service Discovery, Software Systems, Scripting, Grafana, Build Management, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Roblox, Kibana, Service Stack, Programming Languages
- **Published:** August 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://careers.roblox.com/jobs/8148394?gh_jid=8148394

## About the Role

* Strong experience in designing, delivering & operating large-scale distributed systems handling billions of real-time requests per second.
 * Strong experience & builder mindset to run large scale Active/Active distributed systems on top of container orchestrators like Kubernetes or Nomad and service discovery systems like Consul
 * Strong experience with programming languages like Go, Java or C++
 * Strong 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, with at least 5 years of hands on experience

## Description

As a Senior Software Engineer for the storage team within infra org, you'll be innovating & running large scale distributed systems in-house in order to meet Roblox's ever increasing challenges on storage business needs, such as caching, message queue.

You will:

 * Have a leading role in designing, implementing and running our internal Infra-as-a-Service offerings on top of a container orchestrator platform
 * Improve & scale our large distributed 24x7 services and deliver features with urgency, cost efficiency, 4+ 9s availability and elastic scalability
 * Design and build frameworks/tools to automate development, testing, cluster management and monitoring of mission critical services
 * Collaborate with partner teams, producing project work plans, measurable metrics, delivery milestones , rollout plan, oncall 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
 * Work with stakeholders to influence the strategy for the next generation of product features and system capabilities, identifying the best practical way to deliver impactful functionalities
 * Improve SLA of the offering services and end-end rollout time of our suite of software solutions


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