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Principal Software Engineer, Compute Fleet Management

Roblox
San Mateo, CA, United States
Posted 19 minutes ago
Last seen 19 minutes ago
Active
full-time
Software Engineering
$345,040—$399,420 USD

Job Summary

Lead the future of Roblox's massive compute infrastructure as a Principal Software Engineer, driving technical direction for fleet management and empowering millions of users. This pivotal role offers the chance to architect scalable systems, innovate with Kubernetes, and shape the platform's core technology.

About this job

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will lead the technical direction for Roblox's compute fleet management across three pods, owning end-to-end compute capacity from provisioning to control planes and internal UIs. This deeply technical leadership role involves architecting declarative Kubernetes-style control planes, defining internal customer contracts, and driving strategy for self-serve capacity. You will centralize security, maintenance, and uptime for all Kubernetes clusters, ensuring compute supply and demand remain balanced at scale.

Requirements

- 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure. - A track record as the technical anchor an organization relies on, with the leadership to set direction across multiple teams and up-level the engineers around you. - Strong proficiency in Go, with deep experience designing and operating production services at fleet scale. - Hands-on experience building declarative, Kubernetes-style control planes and the reconciliation patterns behind them. - Strong proficiency with gRPC for service-to-service APIs and with SQL and Postgres for durable, high-scale state. - Experience operating compute capacity across both on-prem data centers and cloud providers, and a feel for the realities of running fleets at the scale of hundreds of thousands of instances. - A history of being highly cross-functional, partnering with stakeholders across and beyond infrastructure to design systems that keep compute supply and demand in balance.

Benefits & Perks

- Equity compensation - Benefits as described on the total rewards page

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