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Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. \nA career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.\nAs a Senior Software Engineer for the storage team within infra org, you’ll be innovating & running large scale distributed systems in-house in order to meet Roblox’s ever increasing challenges on storage business needs, such as caching, message queue. \nYou will:\nHave a leading role in designing, implementing and running our internal Infra-as-a-Service offerings on top of a container orchestrator platform\nImprove & scale our large distributed 24x7 services and deliver features with urgency, cost efficiency, 4+ 9s availability and elastic scalability \nDesign and build frameworks/tools to automate development, testing, cluster management and monitoring of mission critical services\nCollaborate with partner teams, producing project work plans, measurable metrics, delivery milestones , rollout plan, oncall alerts and runbooks while leveraging existing technology stack \nGive a high level of attention to create high quality & reusable code , keep development continuously without compromising site reliability\nWork with stakeholders to influence the strategy for the next generation of product features and system capabilities, identifying the best practical way to deliver impactful functionalities \nImprove SLA of the offering services and end-end rollout time of our suite of software solutions\nYou Have:\nStrong experience in designing, delivering & operating large-scale distributed systems handling billions of real-time requests per second. \nStrong experience & builder mindset to run large scale Active/Active distributed systems on top of container orchestrators like Kubernetes or Nomad and service discovery systems like Consul\nStrong experience with programming languages like Go, Java or C++\nStrong scripting and test automation abilities\nExperience with telemetry stacks, like Grafana, Prometheus monitoring, AlertManager and Kibana\nBS degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science, with at least 5 years of hands on experience \nFor roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. 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