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Senior Software Engineer - Roblox Database

Roblox
Location
San Mateo, California, United States
Work mode
Remote
Type
full time
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[ About this role ]

Senior Software Engineer on the Roblox Database team. This role involves designing and implementing new database engine features such as indexing, storage formats, WAL, replication, sharding, and query-planner enhancements. The engineer will also evolve the control plane for elastic scaling and autonomous healing, and optimize critical code paths using kernel-level tracing.

Skills and focus areas

  • database architecture
  • database development
  • indexing
  • storage formats
  • replication protocols
  • sharding
  • query planning
  • control plane development
  • elastic scaling
  • autonomous healing
  • zero-downtime operations
  • performance profiling

Summary written by Ramai from the original posting. Full details and requirements are on Roblox’s careers page.

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