Principal Software Engineer - Roblox Database
Roblox- Location
- San Mateo, California, United States
- Work mode
- Remote
- Type
- full time
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[ About this role ]
Roblox is hiring a Principal Software Engineer for their Database team. This role involves designing and implementing new engine features for their multi-tenant database platform, evolving the control plane for elastic scaling and autonomous healing, and optimizing critical code paths. The engineer will also establish engineering best practices through design reviews and incident retrospectives.
Skills and focus areas
- database architecture
- indexing
- storage formats
- replication protocols
- sharding
- query planning
- elastic scaling
- autonomous healing
- zero-downtime deployments
- performance profiling
- kernel-level tracing
- tail-latency reduction
Summary written by Ramai from the original posting. Full details and requirements are on Roblox’s careers page.
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