Principal Software Engineer - Roblox Database

Tech Stack

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Responsibilities

• Design and implement new engine features for indexing, storage formats, WAL, replication protocols, sharding, and query-planner enhancements.
• Evolve the control plane for elastic scaling, autonomous healing, and zero-downtime schema or tenant moves across global regions.
• Profile and optimize critical code paths using advanced performance tooling to drive systematic tail-latency reductions.
• Establish engineering best practices by leading design reviews, performance benchmarks, failure drills, and post-incident retrospectives.
• Automate testing, CI/CD, rollout safety, observability, and autoscaling frameworks to ensure hands-off platform operation at scale.

Soft Skills

Benefits

• Equity
• Health Insurance

Culture

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