Roblox
Senior Software Engineer - Roblox Database
$243K–$295K
San Mateo, CA, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years in software engineering or a relevant field.
- Visa sponsorship
- For US-based roles, the company may not be able to employ candidates with work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
About the job
Design, build, and operate Roblox’s globally scaled, multi-tenant database platform, improving its performance, reliability, and automation.
What you'll do
- Design and implement database engine features and evolve the control plane for elastic scaling and safe changes across regions.
- Optimize performance and lead engineering practices including design reviews, benchmarks, failure drills, and incident retrospectives.
- Build automation for testing, delivery, observability, and autoscaling; 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
$243,290 — $295,250 USD (base salary)
Tools
PostgreSQL, MySQL/InnoDB, RocksDB, Spanner, Aurora, AlloyDB, C/C++, Kubernetes
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