Job brief: Senior Data Center Engineer

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• Listed on Roblox's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (3 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-06.
• The apply link opens careers.roblox.com, the address Roblox's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

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

• Pay: $162,950 to $195,900 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Chicago, Illinois, United States · Chicago, IL
• Posted: 2026-10-23

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

Level: Senior. The title says "Senior".

Must have

• 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 do…
• At minimum 4+ years of experience working in large-scale Data Center Infrastructure environments, including experience with remote edge deployments and coordinating with "smart ha…

Conditions

• Leverage partnerships across teams to automate maintenance actions which do not require physical intervention.
• Participate in the on-call rotation for our critical infrastructure.
• You have installed various equipment that commonly resides in the data center environment and are able to lift 75 pounds occasionally.
• Someone who is ready for action, willing to travel and get on-site to build our Domestic and global edge data centers.

Main duties

• Develop and maintain the Edge Data Center and hardware infrastructure to meet the large scale and real-time requirements of our Imagination Platform™ to ensu…
• 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 …

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs in Chicago, IL: $165k a year (57 listings, 20 employers). This listing is 9% higher.
• Across Roblox's 253 open listings, 42% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Roblox hires

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