Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Compute

About the Role

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 and libraries that promote fault-tolerance and resilience, automate cluster management and lifecycle, 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.
• Create tooling that provides production guardrails by evaluating release candidate capacity with load testing tools prior to production deployment.
• Create performance monitoring services and observability to understand capacity issues and platform degradations, monitoring production services and 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, with at least 6 years as an SRE or Software Engineer.
• Fluency with high-level programming languages such as Go, Java, or C#.
• 7+ years of experience with Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems.
• Experience in Nomad, Vault, and Consul is strongly desired.
• Demonstrated experience and practices around building durable, reliable software and tools and driving adoption.
• Experience in large project lifecycles, working in sprints, breaking down complex tasks, and reporting status.