Software Engineer, Data Access

Overview

Software Engineer on the Data Access team within Infra / Storage, building and evolving EaaS (Entities-as-a-Service), Roblox's managed OLTP access and management platform.

What you'll do

• Build and evolve EaaS, Roblox's managed OLTP access platform powering tens of millions of QPS across hundreds of services.
• Design infrastructure that abstracts distributed databases and caching systems behind a consistent, safe, and highly productive developer experience.
• Drive reliability and scalability improvements across distributed systems, including adaptive flow control, workload isolation and governance, efficient database usage and large-scale caching behavior.
• Lead end-to-end technical execution: architecture, implementation, rollout, production operations, and incident response for mission-critical infrastructure systems.
• Analyze real production traffic patterns and failure modes to improve platform reliability, operational predictability, and scalability under rapidly growing workloads.
• Improve platform safety, observability, deployment reliability, and operational excellence across the stack.
• Partner with teams across Roblox to solve real scalability and reliability challenges for critical production workloads.

What you'll need

• 1+ years of experience building large-scale backend or infrastructure systems.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (C#, C++, Go, Python or similar).
• Curiosity and passion for solving open-ended problems: identifying challenges, developing a deep understanding of the systems involved, and driving solutions with your team.
• Ability to collaborate in cross-functional and cross-team projects to deliver the most curated technical solution.
• Long-term mindset: willingness to take the long view to drive collaboration and build the system.

Nice to have

• Understanding of building systems that operate at high QPS with low-latency requirements.
• Experience working on infrastructure or performance-critical backend systems.

Details

• Location: San Mateo, CA, United States (headquarters).
• Onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
• Annual base salary range: $153,120 – $196,750 USD; eligible for equity compensation and benefits.
• For US-based roles only: the Company may not be able to employ candidates who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.