2 days ago
San Mateo, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$345k - $399k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the technical vision, architecture, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for Optimize’s streaming, batch, and analytical serving systems.
- Define standards for late and out-of-order data, backfills, replays, data-quality validation, SLOs, alerting, and reliability.
- Lead major data incident response, postmortems, capacity planning, load testing, performance optimization, and cost-efficiency initiatives.
- Own architecture for Experiments, Remote Configs, Segmentation, assignment, targeting, exposure logging, and results pipelines.
- Lead cross-team technical decisions and multi-team initiatives involving shared data infrastructure.
- Mentor senior engineers, develop technical leaders, improve engineering practices, and influence planning with engineering, product, and design leadership.
- Participate in the PagerDuty on-call rotation.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 5+ years designing, building, and operating large-scale production data systems.
- Track record of setting technical direction at the principal or staff-plus level across multiple teams or systems.
- Deep production expertise with Apache Kafka and Apache Flink or equivalent streaming technologies, including event time, watermarks, windowing, state, and delivery guarantees.
- Experience with Apache Spark or Hive and Apache Airflow or equivalent orchestration systems, including DAG design, SLAs, dependencies, and large-scale backfills.
- Experience with Apache Druid and/or StarRocks or equivalent real-time OLAP systems, including ingestion, rollups, partitioning, and query tuning.
- Experience shaping company-scale shared data platforms, ETL frameworks, standardized tables, and multi-team clusters.
- Expertise in at least one of C#/.NET, Java/Scala, or Go, plus Python for pipelines and tooling.
- Experience designing and operating gRPC/REST services at scale.
- Experience defining SLOs, monitoring, and alerting and leading major production incident response and postmortems.
- Strong technical writing, communication, and cross-team alignment skills with senior leadership.
Benefits
- Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and benefits.
- For San Mateo, California office roles, the stated annual base salary range is $345,040–$399,420 USD.
- Office-based roles are onsite Tuesday through Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday unless otherwise noted.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowApache BeamApache FlinkApache HiveApache KafkaApache SparkC#ClickHouseGoGrafanagRPCJava.NETPrometheusPythonScala
Categories
Data Engineering
About Roblox
Roblox builds a platform for user‑generated 3D experiences, offering Roblox Studio for creators and a social marketplace where players explore and interact across devices. Its business model centers on virtual currency (Robux) and subscriptions, platform fees paid to creators, and an expanding advertising offering. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Roblox Corporation is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker RBLX.