Who We Are: 

Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to Roblox to play, learn, work, and socialize in immersive digital experiences created by the community. Our vision is to build a platform that enables shared experiences among billions of users. This is what’s known as the metaverse: a persistent space where anyone can do just about anything they can imagine, from anywhere in the world and on any device. Join us and you’ll usher in a new category of human interaction while solving exceptional challenges that you won’t find anywhere else.

What You’ll Do:

The Traffic team’s mission is to accelerate User-to-Roblox communication. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Traffic team, you will contribute to the evolution of our distributed platform supporting Roblox services for our millions of users. This is a highly cross-functional role where collaboration is key, with not only Networking teams but Infrastructure teams at large.

You have: 

• 4 years of experience developing network software in Python and Golang (C, Lua, Rust a plus).
• Strong knowledge of TCP, HTTP, DNS, TLS, and UDP protocols.
• Experience with Reverse Proxies (e.g. HAProxy, Envoy)
• Experience building DDoS/WAF Protection products is a plus.

You will:

• Design and build tools and systems to support our growing Edge infrastructure.
• Improve our Edge termination product to provide the best experience to our community.
• Collaborate with teams across groups to move company initiatives forward.
• Participate in the on-call rotation for our critical infrastructure.