Senior Software Engineer - Machine Bootstrap

Responsibilities

• Lead the Machine Bootstrap pod in building and evolving provisioning and fleet management at massive scale.
• Ship fleet-wide maintenance operations (BIOS updates, firmware updates, configuration changes) to hundreds of thousands of machines through MAPI.
• Drive best-in-class provisioning performance, minutes to fully rebuild a machine from scratch.
• Evaluate and integrate new hardware platforms including GPU servers and AI accelerators into the provisioning pipeline.
• Collaborate across Compute, Networking, and Cloud teams on the full machine lifecycle from rack-and-stack to production.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience with strong expertise in distributed systems and infrastructure.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent field

You have

Strong proficiency in Go, C/C++, Rust or other system level programming languages.

Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems that other engineering teams depend on.

Familiarity with bare-metal concepts (PXE/iPXE, DHCP, BMC/IPMI/Redfish, OS imaging) is a plus; deep low-level systems experience is a bonus, not a requirement.

Interest in modern server hardware including GPU servers, AI accelerators, and cloud infrastructure.

A track record of building high-performance automation at fleet scale and reducing toil through developer-friendly APIs.

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 benefits as described on this page

Annual Salary Range

$196,750

$243,290 USD

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

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.