Tech Stack

Description

You will architect and build the next-generation managed OLTP data access layer for Roblox, designed for extreme scale, global availability, and security. You'll lead the design of core infrastructure capable of serving hundreds of millions of queries per second, shaping foundational storage systems and evolving platform-wide scalability and reliability.

Requirements

• Strong experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems handling millions of real-time requests per second
• Deep data management knowledge in RDBMS (CockroachDB, SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL), Caching (Redis), Kafka, KV store (DynamoDB, Cassandra)
• Strong experience with container orchestrators (Kubernetes, Nomad) and service discovery (Consul)
• Strong experience with programming languages like Rust, Go, Java, or C++
• Experience with telemetry stacks like Grafana, Prometheus, AlertManager, Kibana

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Security teams to define long-term strategy for the Data Access platform
• Lead architecture, implementation, and operation of storage Infra-as-a-Service offerings
• Improve and scale large distributed 24x7 services with high reliability and zero downtime
• Design frameworks and tools to automate development, testing, deployment, and monitoring
• Collaborate with partner teams to produce project work plans, milestones, and runbooks