Senior Data Center Engineer

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. As a Senior Data Center Engineer, you'll help us scale our Edge Data Centers and hardware infrastructure at a time of incredible growth for our business. At Roblox, you'll have boundless opportunities to shape the future of the Imagination Platform™ and demonstrate your passion for delivering thoughtful solutions in front of a global audience. If you know what it takes to build and operate hardware infrastructure that can sustain millions of concurrent players year-round and you take play as seriously as we do, you'll fit right into our highly experienced and ever-expanding engineering team. You will report to the Technical Lead, Edge Data Center Engineer. You will: • Develop and maintain the Edge Data Center and hardware infrastructure to meet the large scale and real-time requirements of our Imagination Platform™ to ensure our community has an awesome experience anywhere in the world. This includes all aspects of the server, network infrastructure, power, and environmental life cycles. • Own efforts to track and mitigate systemic issues preventing hosts from returning to service. • Identify and solve critical problems and prevent them from re-occurring via root cause analysis and giving recommendations to improve automation. • Coordinate with peers to establish and uphold best practices related to breakfix, install, decom and all other aspects of datacenter operations. • Create, influence, and improve the development platform, infrastructure, standards (Runbooks, SOPs, MOPs), and methods to ensure the goal of scalability and high availability can be achieved. • Leverage partnerships across teams to automate maintenance actions which do not require physical intervention. • Encourage an environment of continuous improvement and learning among engineering staff. • Assist in coordinating vendors and ensuring quality of outsourced projects • Participate in the on-call rotation for our critical infrastructure. • Travel: Domestic and international travel will be required 25-50% of the time to support the physical deployment and scaling of our core/edge data center infrastructure at both domestic and global locations. You have: • At minimum 4+ years of experience working in large-scale Data Center Infrastructure environments, including experience with remote edge deployments and coordinating with "smart hands" or third-party contractors. • Extensive experience installing, monitoring, and maintaining server and network equipment. This includes brand new server and network provisioning. • In-depth knowledge of data center environments, servers, and network equipment. • Proven experience executing on multiple tasks simultaneously. • You have installed various equipment that commonly resides in the data center environment and are able to lift 75 pounds occasionally. You are: • Someone who is ready for action, willing to travel and get on-site to build our Domestic and global edge data centers. You wield a wealth of server and network hardware troubleshoot