Fleet Control Plane - Principal Software Engineer

About the role:

As a Software Engineer in the Fleet Control Plane pod of Roblox's Compute Group, you'll take on a product and engineering-centric role to transform fleet management at scale. Reporting directly to Kilian Ciuffolo, the EM for the Machine Management layer, you'll employ Kubernetes to design autonomous and self-service systems that revolutionize capacity allocation and the lifecycle of hundreds of thousands of machines both on-premises and in the cloud. In this product and engineering-focused role, your innovative solutions will be instrumental in shaping the future of Roblox's Private Cloud.

You will:

Develop a declarative system using Kubernetes and custom controllers to manage the lifecycle of a fleet encompassing hundreds of thousands of machines, both on-premises and in the cloud.

You have:

• 10+ years of industry experience.
• Leadership experience as Tech Lead.
• Design and cross-functional experience in delivering big projects over multiple quarters.
• Prefer building autonomous systems over ops and repetitive tasks.
• Like and understand the importance of documentation for large scale systems.
• Care deeply about production health and reliable, sustainable production systems.
• Customer, team, and quality oriented.
• Like getting things done
• No experience required in this specific area of infrastructure, but being excited about the problem space is a must.

You are:

• A solution-oriented innovator
• Detail-oriented and adaptable to fast-paced, evolving environments.
• Committed to process improvement.
• Build and maintain a Machine Operational API to support various functionalities like Cells, Compute API, and multi-regional automation.
• Automate capacity allocation to reduce human toil.
• Implement safe drain protocols for efficient fleet lifecycle management.

This role has an in office requirement.