Senior Software Engineer, Machine Bootstrap

As a Software Engineer in Roblox's Compute Group's Machine Bootstrap pod, you'll directly influence the evolution of our Private Cloud. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will build products to streamline provisioning and monitoring across our infrastructure, significantly improving capacity delivery, uptime, and OS security. This role will be reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager, Machine Management.

While this role exposes you to the low-level components of our cloud and on-premise infrastructure, it is heavily focused on building products with a customer-centric approach. You will focus on delivering exceptional user experiences to Compute’s customers by writing Golang controllers for Kubernetes and developing higher-level gRPC APIs. This work abstracts the complexities of our data centers away from our Roblox Builders. People from diverse technical backgrounds have succeeded in this role, and we value diversity in our team.

You will:

• Develop and maintain a fleet wide machine daemon for efficient hardware/software monitoring, runtime updates, and secure machine access.
• Write Golang controllers for Roblox's fleet lifecycle, ensuring smooth functioning at all times.
• Handle OS installation, firmware provisioning, and secure recycling processes.
• Build and maintain a robust framework for HW/OS/Kernel validation and performance tuning.
• Provide abstraction across cloud and on-premise systems, supporting stateful services.

You have:

• 4+ years of industry experience.
• A deep interest in the problem space; no specific experience is necessary in this area of infrastructure,
• Preference to build autonomous systems over ops and repetitive tasks.
• Interest and understanding of the importance of documentation for large scale systems.
• Strong consideration for production health and experience working on reliable, sustainable production systems.

You are:

• Customer, team, and quality oriented.
• A problem solver with a focus on finding solutions.
• An excellent communicator with strong team-playing abilities.
• Diligent and highly organized.
• Adaptable to fast-paced, evolving environments.
• Committed to continual process improvement.