3 months ago
San Mateo, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$243k - $295k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the design, architecture, implementation, and operational lifecycle of one or two key data platform frameworks.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, data science, and product engineering teams to align platform capabilities with governance and product requirements.
- Optimize throughput and reliability through work on engine internals, query planning, state management, memory optimization, and serialization efficiency.
- Lead the design and testing of next-generation infrastructure features running on Kubernetes across cloud environments.
- Embed AI/ML capabilities and LLM-based data discovery, generation, and autonomous self-service platform interaction mechanisms.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building, designing, testing, and maintaining production-grade large-scale distributed systems.
- Deep experience with or strong familiarity with at least one or two data infrastructure technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Spark, Trino, Druid, Airflow, or Data Catalog and metadata systems.
- Strong proficiency in Java, Go, or Scala and experience writing clean, high-performance backend code.
- Experience operating and troubleshooting large-scale data infrastructure on Kubernetes in AWS or GCP.
- Ability to influence technical direction across teams, mentor engineers, and drive alignment on complex cross-cutting initiatives.
- B.S. equivalent in computer science or sufficient experience.
- Open-source contributions in the data infrastructure ecosystem are preferred.
- Experience operating infrastructure at consumer-internet scale for more than 100 million users is preferred.
Benefits
- Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and company benefits.
- Roles based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday.
- The role is based at the San Mateo, California headquarters when applicable.
Tech Stack
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.