Principal Software Engineer, Compute Provisioning San Mateo, CA, Engineering

Principal Software Engineer, Compute Provisioning

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Fleet Management team, you will lead the systems that provision and rebuild Roblox's global fleet across bare metal and cloud. This team owns provisioning, and MAPI, the global Machine API that turns raw capacity into production-ready infrastructure in minutes, across hundreds of thousands of machines on-prem and cloud environments, including new GPU and new AI infrastructure.

You will shape the technical direction for this critical compute platform and unify diverse hardware and environment‑specific workflows behind MAPI and drive large‑scale maintenance operations like firmware updates and hardware tuning.

• Lead the Machine Bootstrap pod in building and evolving provisioning and fleet management at massive scale.
• Architect and extend MAPI, the unified Machine API that abstracts bare‑metal, GPU hosts, and cloud instances behind a single global interface.
• 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.

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

Annual Salary Range

$295,250 — $345,040 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.