Description
Roblox is hiring a Senior Database Engineer to design and launch scalable database capabilities for its multi-tenant platform. The role focuses on indexing, storage formats, WAL and replication protocols, sharding, query planning, control-plane scaling, autonomous healing, performance optimization, automation, observability, and engineering best practices. The engineer will also mentor other engineers and contribute to open-source database ecosystems. The position requires at least six years of software engineering experience, deep distributed-database and database-internals expertise, strong C/C++, Go, or Rust skills, and experience with consensus algorithms, high-QPS services, and container orchestration. The role is based at Roblox’s headquarters in San Mateo, California, with onsite work Tuesday through Thursday and optional presence Monday and Friday.
