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# Senior Software Engineer Data Access

- **Company:** Roblox
- **Location:** San Mateo, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Code Reuse, Data Security, Relational Databases, Distributed Systems, Amazon DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Redis, Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Service Discovery, Delivery Pipeline, Grafana, Caching, Build Management, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Data Management, Kibana, Programming Languages
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_b0f8ab294b3db2f23969326fcf6e7118

## About the Role

* Strong experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems handling millions of real-time requests per second.
 * Deep data management knowledge in one or more of the following technologies: RDBMS (CockroachDB, SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL), Caching (Redis), Kafka, KV store (DynamoDB, Cassandra).
 * Strong experience building deployment pipelines on top of container orchestrators like Kubernetes or Nomad and service discovery systems like Consul.
 * Strong experience with programming languages like Rust, Go, Java, or C++.
 * Experience with telemetry stacks, like Grafana, Prometheus, AlertManager, and Kibana.
 * BS degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science, with at least 3 years of hands-on experience.

## Description

* Partner with Product, Engineering, and Security teams to define long-term strategy and technical requirements for the Data Access platform.
 * Lead the architecture, implementation, and operation of our storage Infra-as-a-Service offerings, setting the engineering bar for scalability, reliability, and system hardening across teams.
 * Improve and scale our large distributed 24x7 services and deliver features with urgency, cost efficiency, zero down time, and high reliability.
 * Design and build frameworks or tools to automate development, testing, deployment, management, and monitoring of mission critical services.
 * Collaborate with partner teams, producing project work plans, measurable metrics, delivery milestones, rollout plans, oncall alerts, and runbooks while leveraging existing technology stack.
 * Give a high level of attention to creating high quality and reusable code, keeping development continuous without compromising site reliability.
 * Improve SLAs across the platform and reduce end-to-end rollout time for critical storage and data-access features.