Job brief: Senior Software Engineer, Service Mesh

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Roblox's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (4 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-07.
• The apply link opens careers.roblox.com, the address Roblox's board gives for this job.
• The same title for the same place was listed 1 other time on this board in the last 90 days: several openings, or a re-posted job.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $243,290 to $295,250 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: San Mateo, CA, United States · San Mateo, CA
• Posted: 2026-06-18 · over 60 days ago

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Senior. The title says "Senior".

Must have

• A professional with 6+ years of experience in distributed systems, with strong expertise in service mesh technologies (Istio, Envoy, Consul, or Linkerd).

Conditions

• The Application Networking team connects and secures these services, building ingress gateways, managing the service mesh, and enabling seamless communication across Roblox’s hybr…
• Design and build the service mesh infrastructure that enables communication across Roblox’s hybrid Kubernetes and Nomad environments, supporting billions of daily requests.
• Experienced with on-call rotations and approach infrastructure with a “reliability-first” mindset.

Main duties

• Design and build the service mesh infrastructure that enables communication across Roblox’s hybrid Kubernetes and Nomad environments, supporting billions of …
• Drive the integration of service mesh with Kubernetes, ensuring reliable sidecar injection, mTLS, traffic policies, and observability for production workloads.
• Build the networking foundation for Cloud Bursting, enabling Roblox’s top services to transparently burst from on-prem data centers to the cloud, with servic…
• Partner with internal application teams to understand their connectivity pain points, ensuring the service mesh provides a frictionless 'paved road' for thou…
• Collaborate with the Gateway and CNI teams to deliver a unified, multi-cluster service fabric that abstracts cluster and regional boundaries from application…

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs in San Mateo, CA: $257k a year (148 listings, 2 employers). This listing pays about the same.
• Across Roblox's 251 open listings, 42% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Roblox hires

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