2 days ago
San Mateo, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$295k - $345k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the multi-year architecture and strategy for Apache Airflow and Roblox’s data orchestration platform.
- Scale and harden schedulers, metadata databases, executors, and DAG parsing for thousands of daily workflows.
- Design and operate AWS EKS clusters for orchestration and Spark workloads, including autoscaling, resource isolation, cost efficiency, and deployment automation.
- Build APIs, custom operators and providers, libraries, and self-service tooling for internal data engineers.
- Establish SLOs, alerting, diagnostics, incident reviews, and root-cause fixes for platform and pipeline reliability.
- Lead technical alignment across data platform, governance, data science, and product engineering teams.
- Set engineering standards and mentor staff, senior, and mid-level engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale production distributed systems.
- Deep hands-on experience designing, operating, and scaling a production workflow orchestrator or job scheduler, ideally Apache Airflow or an equivalent system.
- Experience with scheduler and executor design, metadata-store performance, task isolation, retries, idempotency, upgrades, and migrations.
- Production Kubernetes cluster management and scaling on AWS, including EKS, Helm, and Karpenter or Cluster Autoscaler.
- Strong Python proficiency plus Go or Java experience, with a record of writing clean, tested platform and tooling code.
- Working knowledge of Spark workloads running on Kubernetes, including Spark on Kubernetes, spark-operator, or EMR on EKS.
- Experience building platforms for other engineers, including APIs, observability, reliability, and developer experience.
- Track record of cross-organizational technical leadership and driving multi-quarter projects from concept through production.
- Preferred qualifications include contributions to Apache Airflow or related open-source projects, experience with Dagster, Temporal, Argo Workflows, or Flyte, and experience with Terraform, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, cost optimization, chargeback, or consumer-internet-scale infrastructure.
Benefits
- Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and company benefits.
- For San Mateo office-based roles, employees work onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday.
- The listed annual base salary range for San Mateo roles is $295,250–$345,040 USD.
Tech Stack
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.