engineering
Posted 6 hours agoSenior Software Engineer, Service Mesh
at roblox
San Mateo United States, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- Design and build the service mesh infrastructure that enables communication across Roblox’s hybrid Kubernetes and Nomad environments, supporting billions of daily requests.
- Drive the integration of service mesh with Kubernetes, ensuring reliable sidecar injection, mTLS, traffic policies, and observability for production workloads.
- Build the networking foundation for Cloud Bursting, enabling Roblox’s top services to transparently burst from on-prem data centers to the cloud, with service discovery, traffic management, and locality-aware routing across environments.
- Collaborate with the Gateway and CNI teams to deliver a unified, multi-cluster service fabric that abstracts cluster and regional boundaries from application developers.
Requirements
- A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. Who We Are:
- experience in distributed systems, with strong expertise in service mesh technologies (Istio, Envoy, Consul, or Linkerd). You understand the tradeoffs of sidecar-based architectures at scale.
- Experienced running Kubernetes in production and familiar with the K8s networking model.
- Fluent in Go, C/C++, or Rust.
Experience
- A professional with 3+ years of
Benefits
- Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device.
- For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below.
- The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand.
- Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range.
- This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
- All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for
- Annual Salary Range $243,290 — $295,250 USD
- For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
Additional details
- Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.
- At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any
- We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.
- Roblox is reimagining the way people come together to connect, create, and express themselves.
- To support our massive scale, we are powered by thousands of microservices.
- The Application Networking team connects and secures these services, building ingress gateways, managing the service mesh, and enabling seamless communication across Roblox’s hybrid on-prem and cloud infrastructure.
- We are executing on Cloud Bursting, a strategic initiative to enable Roblox’s core services to transparently burst from on-prem data centers to the cloud, allowing us to handle historical peak concurrent players and survive regional failures.
- You will join our Service Mesh team to build the networking fabric that makes this possible. You Will:
- Partner with internal application teams to understand their connectivity pain points, ensuring the service mesh provides a frictionless 'paved road' for thousands of developers
- Serve as a primary escalation point for complex service mesh issues, troubleshooting across Envoy sidecars, Istio control plane, and the underlying network stack.