Senior Software Engineer, Application Gateway

📋 Description

• Design, build, and operate Roblox's Envoy-based application gateway fleet — the front door for
• Own the reliability and scale characteristics of the gateway: capacity and headroom modeling
• Partner with the internal networking and service teams to deliver one coherent traffic story from
• Serve as a primary escalation point for complex edge and gateway issues, debugging across Envoy
• Act as a senior voice on the team, mentoring junior engineers and promoting best practices in

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in distributed systems, with strong expertise in networking architecture and
• Deeply knowledgeable of L7 networking concepts: routing and request transformation, TLS termination
• Experienced running Kubernetes in production and familiar with the K8s networking model.
• Comfortable working with Envoy proxy internals, xDS APIs, and control plane architectures.
• Excellent at designing large-scale distributed systems that span multiple clusters, regions, and
• Fluent in Go, C/C++, or Rust.

🎁 Benefits

• Equity compensation and benefits as described on the total rewards page.