Roblox
Senior Software Engineer - Data Acquisition
San Mateo, CA, United States · Senior · Full-time
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odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$24,437 more — $221,187 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $221,187 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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Green-card follow-through: 79%
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About the role
- Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device.
- This role offers the chance to be a founding team member and help define both the technical direction and the long-term shape of the product area from the ground up.
- Join our team and make a significant impact at Roblox.
Responsibilities
- For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
- Architect and deliver a high-performance analytics environment that serves thousands of queries daily
- Design and scale robust data infrastructure for powering data retrieval and visualization
- Bridge the gap between data engineering, analytics, and infrastructure to deliver a suite of best-in class, fully featured, and easy to use data tools.
- Build intelligent agentic automation to simplify and accelerate analytical workflows
- Be a tech lead and mentor junior engineers
- 5+ years of work experience building production-grade, scalable, and reliable data systems; B.S. equivalent in CS or sufficient experience.
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills; enjoy building systems that enable and accelerate team productivity
Compensation
- $196,750 - $243,290 USD
Company info
- We are seeking a senior software engineer to join our new Data Intake team.
Visa & Work Authorization
- For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
This listing is sourced directly from Roblox's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.