Roblox
Senior Software Engineer - Data Access
$243K–$295K
San Mateo, CA, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Dec 2, 2025
- Experience
- At least 6 years of hands-on experience; no alternatives stated.
- Education
- BS degree in Computer Science (or equivalent professional experience).
- Visa sponsorship
- For US-based roles, the company may be unable to employ candidates whose US work authorization relates to certain visa categories or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
About the job
Build and operate Roblox’s managed OLTP data-access platform, improving distributed-systems scalability, reliability, and developer experience.
What you'll do
- Build and evolve EaaS, abstracting distributed databases and caching systems behind a safe, productive developer experience.
- Improve reliability and scalability through flow control, workload governance, caching, observability, and deployment improvements.
- Lead technical execution from architecture and implementation through rollout, production operations, and incident response.
What they ask for
- Experience building large-scale infrastructure abstractions for complex backend systems.
- Experience with adaptive rate limiting, flow control, workload governance, or reliability automation in high-scale production environments.
- Experience building or operating distributed databases, caching systems, OLTP platforms, or stateful infrastructure.
- Strong distributed-systems and backend infrastructure experience; strong programming skills in Rust, Go, C++, Java, or similar languages.
Pay
USD $243,290–$295,250 annual base salary (San Mateo, CA headquarters roles)
Tools
Rust, Go, C++, Java, OLTP
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