Senior Database Administrator

ROBLOX is the best place to Imagine with Friends™. With the largest user-generated online gaming platform, and over 15 million games created by users, ROBLOX is the #1 gaming site for kids and teens (comScore). Every day, virtual explorers come to ROBLOX to create adventures, play games, role play, and learn with their friends in a family-friendly, immersive, 3D environment.

As a Senior Database Administrator, you’ll play a critical role in helping us scale our database backend 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 awesome solutions in front of a global audience. If you know what it takes to scale database backends that can sustain over one million concurrent players year-round and you take play as seriously as we do, you’ll fit right into our highly-skilled and ever-expanding engineering team.

* Work with an innovative distributed team that manages our mission critical MSSQL database systems * Develop and deliver groundbreaking database solutions 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 * Design and deliver highly available database platform, using DB-mirroring, SQL clustering and Always-On technologies * Identify and solve critical problems and prevent them from re-occurring via root cause analysis and automation * Create, influence, and improve the development platform, infrastructure, standards, and methods to ensure the goal of scalability and high availability can be achieved * Develop and share best practices with development teams to improve the scalability and reliability of the Roblox platform, including peer reviews of SQL, T-SQL and stored procedures * While we are growing at our current pace, you will be asked to participate in the on-call rotation for critical infrastructure pieces

* **Experienced:** you have a BS degree (or equivalent professional experience) in Computer Science or related engineering field with at least 7 years experience as a MSSQL DBA; you’re used to blazing trails and inspiring your comrades to pursue excellence in all matters * **A MSSQL scholar:** you’ve been around the block a few times and understand the challenges of building large-scale MSSQL database systems. MSSQL has no secrets for you and HA/DR setups are a walk in the park for you * **A strong communicator:** You’re a language arts champion, effortlessly communicating with vendors and suppliers from around the world via email or phone without missing a beat * **Security-minded:** You are familiar with PII & PCI data and understand the requirements these put on data storage, access and security * **Ambitious:** you boldly go where no man or woman has gone before; ScaleArc, Heimdall, ElasticSearch, RLEC, etc. might not be technologies you’ve used, but you are keen to learn and grow * **Adaptable:** you are capable of adjusting to new challenges, and experimentation is in your blood