Senior Software Engineer (Data Access)
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Description
- The Data Access team within Infra / Storage builds EaaS (Entities-as-a-Service), Roblox’s large-scale managed OLTP access and management platform powering tens of millions of QPS across thousands of services
- EaaS abstracts the complexity of distributed databases and caching systems behind a consistent and productive developer experience, enabling teams across Roblox to safely build and operate stateful systems at massive scale without requiring deep database expertise
- The team operates at the intersection of distributed systems engineering, reliability engineering, and platform architecture — solving hard infrastructure problems that directly impact Roblox-wide scale and stability
- As a Senior Software Engineer you will work on some of Roblox’s hardest backend infrastructure challenges around scalability, reliability, workload governance, adaptive flow control, and distributed systems
- Build and evolve EaaS, Roblox’s managed OLTP access platform powering tens of millions of QPS across hundreds of services
- Design infrastructure that abstracts distributed databases and caching systems behind a consistent, safe, and highly productive developer experience
- Drive reliability and scalability improvements across distributed systems, including adaptive flow control, workload isolation and governance, and large-scale caching behavior
- Lead end-to-end technical execution architecture, implementation, rollout, production operations, and incident response for mission-critical infrastructure systems
- Analyze real production traffic patterns and failure modes to improve platform reliability, operational predictability, and scalability under rapidly growing workloads
- Improve platform safety, observability, deployment reliability, and operational excellence across the stack
- Partner with teams across Roblox to solve real scalability and reliability challenges for critical production workloads
- Experience operating or building systems around distributed databases, caching systems, OLTP platforms, or stateful infrastructure
- Experience building large-scale infrastructure abstractions that standardize access to complex backend systems across broad engineering organizations
- Strong hands-on experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems and backend infrastructure in production environments
- Experience designing or operating adaptive rate limiting, flow control, workload governance, or reliability automation systems in high-scale production environments
- Strong programming skills in Rust, Go, C++, Java or similar backend systems languages
- BS degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science, with at least 6 years of hands-on experience
- Experience driving complex technical initiatives end-to-end with strong ownership and cross-functional collaboration