3 months ago
San Mateo, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$295k - $345k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the multi-year architectural vision for Roblox’s core data platforms.
- Translate company strategy into production-grade infrastructure blueprints spanning Kafka, Flink, Spark, Trino, Druid, Airflow, and Data Catalog systems.
- Align technical roadmaps with executive leadership, platform governance, data science, and product engineering teams.
- Optimize distributed-engine internals, query planning, state management, serialization, memory usage, throughput, and cost efficiency.
- Integrate AI/ML and large language model capabilities for self-serve data discovery, automated metadata generation, and autonomous platform interactions.
- Set organization-wide standards for code quality, architecture, and system robustness.
- Mentor staff, senior, and mid-level engineers and promote post-incident analysis and chaos-engineering validation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree equivalent in computer science or sufficient equivalent experience.
- At least 8 years of experience building, designing, testing, and maintaining production-grade large-scale distributed systems.
- Expertise building foundational data infrastructure with technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Spark, Trino, Druid, Hive, Airflow, or Data Catalog and metadata systems.
- Demonstrated experience architecting, writing, and deploying core data-platform and distributed-systems code from the ground up at hyperscale.
- Strong proficiency in Java, Go, or Scala and experience writing clean, high-performance backend code.
- Expertise managing, scaling, and troubleshooting stateful and stateless multi-cluster data infrastructure on Kubernetes within AWS or GCP.
- Experience influencing technical direction across a large engineering organization and leading complex, multi-quarter architectural initiatives.
- Strong ownership and ability to define requirements, unblock dependencies, coordinate engineers, and guide projects through production stability.
- Open-source contributions in the data-infrastructure ecosystem are preferred.
- Experience operating infrastructure at consumer-internet scale with more than 100 million users is preferred.
Benefits
- Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and company benefits.
- Office-based roles are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday.
- Roblox provides reasonable accommodations during the recruiting process.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowApache FlinkApache HiveApache KafkaApache SparkAWSGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesScala
Categories
BackendData 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.