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Principal Software Engineer - Roblox Database

Roblox is hiring for Principal Software Engineer - Roblox Database in San Mateo, CA, United States. Staff level. First seen August 6, 2026, posted 2 times; open as of November 11, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Roblox
Where
San Mateo, CA, United States
Level
Staff
First seen
August 6, 2026
Postings
2
Listed via
Greenhouse

What the posting says

As a principal engineer on the database team, you will shape the architecture, build and launch critical database capabilities that keep our services fast, reliable and efficient at global scale. You will report to the Technical Director for Storage. You will: Design and implement new engine features —indexing, storage formats, WAL and replication protocols, sharding, and query-planner enhancements—that push latency, throughput, and availability boundaries. Evolve the control plane to deliver elastic scaling, autonomous healing, and zero-downtime schema or tenant moves across global regions.…

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