Principal Software Engineer - Creator Distributed Systems & Storage

Overview Principal Software Engineer role at Roblox focused on creator-facing distributed systems, storage, and cloud services. The position leads data storage systems, observability, and extended services for the Roblox platform in San Mateo, CA. Responsibilities - Lead the design and development of improvements to existing products and new cloud services for the Creator Community - Build data storage systems including infrastructure, serving layers, clients, and web APIs - Expand observability through metrics collection, data pipelines, analytics, data visualization, and dashboards - Increase the capabilities of the Roblox Extended Services platform and onboard new customers - Work with creators to identify product gaps and bugs and handle customer emergencies - Provide on-call support for data products, including responding to production alerts and outages - Mentor junior engineers through design reviews, code reviews, joint projects, 1:1s, and peer feedback - Collaborate across UX, product, project management, developer relations, documentation, customer support, and engineering teams Requirements - 10+ years background in software development with public clouds, microservices, and distributed systems - 3+ years building and maintaining data storage systems - 10+ years designing, implementing, testing, and deploying production-grade code - 6+ years programming in C# and/or C++ - 6+ years working on agile, fast-paced, high-impact software teams - 4+ years leading junior engineers and new graduates on complex software engineering projects Benefits - Annual salary range: $345,040 to $399,420 USD - Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation - Benefits are provided as described on the company benefits page - Office roles are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday Other Relevant Heading - Desired experience includes big data pipelines or batch processing systems, Lua/Luau, data science, machine learning, AI, and GUI/dashboard/front-end development - Roles based at headquarters are in San Mateo, CA - Roblox states it provides equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations - For US-based roles, future H-1B sponsorship or certain visa-related work authorization may not be supported at this time Source https://careers.roblox.com/jobs/7740153?gh_jid=7740153