Principal Software Engineer - Object Store

📋 Description

• Design and build the object store — S3-compatible gateway, metadata and indexing, data placement
• Own the technical strategy: multi-year architecture, build-vs-buy calls, and the migration off
• Evolve the control plane for elastic scaling, autonomous healing, self-service provisioning, and
• Run the bare-metal fleet at scale — cluster lifecycle, upgrades, rebalancing, failure domains
• Profile and optimize critical data paths; drive down tail latency and cost per byte.
• Establish engineering best practices — design reviews, benchmarks, failure drills, post-incident

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering or a relevant field
• Deep experience building and operating large-scale distributed storage — object stores, blob
• Hands-on experience running an object storage platform in production: data placement and
• Strong skills in C++, Go, or Rust.
• Deep understanding of durability and replication — erasure coding, geo-replication, consistency
• Proven success shipping high-throughput, low-latency services on bare-metal, on-prem fleets with

🎁 Benefits

• Equity compensation and benefits as described on the Roblox total rewards page.
• Equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations for candidates with qualifying