Senior Software Engineer - Queue

The Infrastructure Storage organization is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Queue team. In this role, you will play a critical part in evolving and operating our in-house, large-scale distributed queue system based on Apache Kafka. Your work will directly support Roblox's ever-increasing need for high-performance queue business capabilities, as the system currently handles tens of trillions of events daily.

You will:

• Lead the advancement and massive scaling of our 24x7 distributed queue service. This critical system is vital for handling a wide range of services, including analytics, matchmaking, trust-safety, economy, and database changefeed events. A key objective is to transition current Amazon SQS traffic to this in-house platform


• Play a leading role in the design, implementation, and operation of our internal Infra-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings built on top of a container orchestration platform


• Design and build robust frameworks and tools to automate the development, testing, cluster management, and monitoring of our mission-critical services


• Drive improvements to the Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for our offerings and reduce the end-to-end rollout time for our suite of software solutions

You have:

• Proven experience in designing, delivering, and operating large-scale distributed systems that manage billions of real-time requests per second


• Deep expertise in one or more messaging technologies, such as Apache Kafka or similar systems


• A builder's mindset and experience running large-scale Active/Active distributed systems leveraging container orchestrators (e.g., Kubernetes or Nomad) and service discovery systems (e.g., Consul)


• Proficiency in programming languages like Go, Java, or C++


• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent professional experience) with at least 3 years of hands-on working experience