Senior Software Engineer (Machine Bootstrap)
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- As a Senior 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
- 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
- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems that other engineering teams depend on
- Strong proficiency in Go, C/C++, Rust or other system level programming languages
- 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
- 4+ years of experience with strong expertise in distributed systems and infrastructure
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent field
- 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