Roblox
Principal Software Engineer - Roblox Database
$294K–$343K
San Mateo, CA, United States · Principal · Full-time · Posted Jul 6, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years in software engineering or a relevant field.
- Visa sponsorship
- For US-based roles, Roblox may be unable to employ candidates whose work authorization relates to certain U.S. visa categories or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
About the job
Shapes the architecture and builds global-scale database capabilities for Roblox’s multi-tenant database platform.
What you'll do
- Design and implement database engine features and improve the control plane for elastic scaling, autonomous healing, and zero-downtime moves.
- Optimize performance and establish practices for reliability, testing, deployment, and incident response.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to open-source database communities.
What they ask for
- Deep experience building and operating large-scale distributed databases or storage engines.
- Expertise in database internals and strong skills in C/C++, GO or Rust.
- Hands-on experience with consensus algorithms and multi-region replication for strong consistency and high availability.
- Experience shipping high-QPS, low-latency services on Kubernetes or Nomad with observability.
Nice to have
- Upstream contributions to PostgreSQL, RocksDB, or other open-source databases.
- Familiarity with disaggregated storage, HTAP workloads, or custom query languages.
Pay
$293,800 — $343,340 USD (base salary)
Tools
PostgreSQL, MySQL/InnoDB, RocksDB, Spanner, Aurora, AlloyDB, C/C++, Kubernetes
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