Senior Software Engineer, Observability

Roblox
San Mateo
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 243,290 - 295,250 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Mentoring","Technical leadership","User-centric thinking","Ownership","Collaboration"]

Own and evolve Roblox’s observability infrastructure end-to-end, including telemetry, distributed tracing, and logs. Build scalable, reliable systems that provide availability and performance signals while reducing operational overhead. Lead end-to-end execution with business partners and architect next-generation observability capabilities for massive time-series and log/tracing volumes. Mentor engineers and help teams succeed with user-centric, community-first improvements.

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Roblox
Roblox
5 days ago

Senior Software Engineer, Observability

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Job Summary

Own and evolve Roblox’s observability infrastructure end-to-end, including telemetry, distributed tracing, and logs. Build scalable, reliable systems that provide availability and performance signals while reducing operational overhead. Lead end-to-end execution with business partners and architect next-generation observability capabilities for massive time-series and log/tracing volumes. Mentor engineers and help teams succeed with user-centric, community-first improvements.
Location: San Mateo
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Work with business partners to define the vision and roadmap, and lead end-to-end project execution.
  • •Own the existing observability infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and ease of use.
  • •Architect next-generation observability infrastructures for massive time series and log/tracing volumes.
  • •Enhance infrastructure with new features and functionality aligned to the Roblox community.
  • •Mentor junior engineers and support their growth into building great software.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 243,290 - 295,250 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years building, maintaining, and evolving large-scale distributed systems.
  • •Experience with modern large-scale infrastructure components and end-to-end service availability/performance ownership.
  • •Ability to pick up new technologies as the landscape evolves.
  • •Experience contributing to open source and leveraging AI for incident detection and mitigation (plus).
  • •BS in Computer Science or related field; a master’s degree or higher is a plus.
Experience:5+ yearsDistributed systemsObservabilityOpen sourceIncident detection
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science (or related field)
Skills:MentoringTechnical leadershipUser-centric thinkingOwnershipCollaboration
Languages:English

Eligibility

Visa:H-1B

Company Brief

Roblox
Operates an online platform for user-generated games and virtual experiences, enabling creators to build, publish, and monetize interactive 3D experiences for a global community of players.
Industry: Gaming
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Mateo, United States
Founded: 2004
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