Roblox
Senior Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure Compute
San Mateo, CA, United States · Senior · Full-time
H1B sponsorship available$243k-$295kDetected 14 hours ago
PythonJavaGoScalaNode.jsDistributed SystemsAWSGCPKubernetesTerraformHelmMachine LearningSparkData EngineeringIncident ResponseLeadershipHadoop
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64Sponsors, lottery-bound
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role100
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70
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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Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
Level I$137,0931 entry
Level II$165,1312 entries
Level III$193,1493 entries
Level IV$221,1874 entries
This range already reaches Level IV — the maximum four lottery entries.
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Context, not a finding about this posting: of this employer's 37 green-card filings in this occupation, 100% were for a worker who already held the job.
Green-card follow-through: 79%
Of 38 labor certifications old enough to have been used, 8 expired without the employer filing the next step. Median time from filing to decision: 496 days.100% of their filings were for a worker who already held the job.Only certifications past the 180-day window are counted — recent ones cannot have expired yet.
Files H-1B transfers
70 transfer filings in the last year, covering 70 workers. Median labor-condition decision: 7 days. An employer that already files transfers is one that can take over an existing H-1B.
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About the role
- These include the Spark job submission service, our internal Spark libraries, interactive notebook compute, and cluster lifecycle automation.
- For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below.
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.
- Experience building tooling that uses Spark event logs or metrics for tuning, cost attribution, or anomaly detection.
- Experience maintaining internal Spark builds or driving Spark version upgrades.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and operating production-grade distributed systems or infrastructure platforms.
- Experience with YuniKorn, Volcano, Kueue, or other batch schedulers on Kubernetes.
- Experience with Spark Connect, Livy, Kyuubi, or other interactive and gateway layers for Spark.
- Experience with the Spark Operator, Karpenter, Helm, Terraform, or Argo.
Skills
- Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device.
- Roblox's data platform processes petabytes of data daily, powering analytics, ML, and product decisions.
Compensation
- $243,290 - $295,250 USD
Company info
- Work with data engineering, ML, analytics, and infrastructure teams to understand their needs, communicate changes, and migrate users to better paths.
- Spark on Kubernetes: Hands-on experience running Apache Spark on Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, or self-managed) as a platform, including executor and driver behavior, resource tuning, and troubleshooting failed or slow jobs. We are looking for platform builders, not just Spark users.
- Kubernetes depth: Strong experience operating production Kubernetes clusters at scale, such as upgrades, node lifecycle, autoscaling, and operators or controllers.
- Engineering foundations: Strong proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Scala, or Clojure, with a track record of writing clean, well-tested, maintainable backend code. Python is a plus, since much of our tuning and analysis tooling uses it.
- Cloud fluency: Experience with AWS (EKS, EC2, IAM, S3) or GCP equivalents, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Operational ownership: Experience taking a system from design through production operation, including on-call, incident response, and observability.
- Technical leadership: Ability to influence design decisions across teams, mentor engineers, and drive alignment on cross-cutting changes.
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- Bonus Points:
- Familiarity with native execution engines (Comet, Gluten, Velox) or JVM performance tuning.
- Experience migrating workloads from YARN/Hadoop to Kubernetes.
- Contributions to open-source projects in the data or Kubernetes ecosystem.
- Experience operating at consumer-internet scale (100M+ users).
- The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand.
- Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range.
- This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
- All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.
- Annual Salary Range
- $243,290 - $295,250 USD
- Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
- Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
- Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.
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.