Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Compute

Job Overview

The Infrastructure Compute Site Reliability Engineering mission is to own and manage the successful operation of our underlying cell infrastructure system, along with elements of service discovery, secrets management, and related software layers. We’re looking for a skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer with strong programming skills to help us build Roblox's private cloud, productionize our growing Kubernetes-based infrastructure, and institute reliability best practices across the Roblox Compute team.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop systems & libraries that promote fault-tolerance and resilience, automate much of the management and lifecycle of our clusters, and ensure systems are observable.
• Promote and institute reliability best practices across the Infra Compute group and drive common reliability initiatives.
• Provide collaborative technical reviews and operational guidance to strengthen system reliability.
• Build, automate, and standardize process automation to create a "golden path" of tooling and platform support that powers the fundamental Roblox ecosystem.
• Create tooling that provides production guardrails by evaluating release candidate capacity with load testing tooling before deploying to production.
• Create performance monitoring services and observability towards understanding capacity issues and platform degradations, monitoring production services and their changes (such as generalized canarying services with alerting).
• Analyze systems and system designs for production readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science or related engineering field.
• At least 6 years of experience as an SRE or Software Engineer.
• 3+ years of professional experience with high-level programming languages like Go, Java, or C#.
• Experience with Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems.
• Experience in Nomad, Vault, and Consul is strongly desired.
• Experience and good habits around building software and tools and getting them adopted.