Roblox

Senior Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

San Mateo, CA, United States · Senior · Full-time

H1B sponsorship available$243k-$295kDetected 16 hours ago

JavaGoScalaAWSKubernetesKafkaMachine LearningSparkAirflowData ScienceLLMsLeadership

About the role

Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device.
Roblox's data infrastructure processes petabytes of data daily, powering analytics, ML, and product decisions.
This role combines high ambiguity and ownership to push the boundaries of what our infrastructure can handle at massive scale, giving you the unique opportunity to steer the evolution of the data landscape.

Partner with infra, data science, and product engineering teams to ensure your target platform's capabilities are directly guided by platform governance and product requirements.
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.
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences- all created by our global community of developers and creators.
At Roblox, we're building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life.
A career at Roblox means you'll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
As a Senior Software Engineer in our Data Infra org, you will design, build, and scale the distributed data infrastructure platforms that power Roblox.
You will own and drive the next-generation architecture of our core platforms, which span Kafka, Flink, Spark, Trino, Druid, Airflow and Data Catalog.

5+ years of experience building, designing, testing and maintaining production-grade, large-scale distributed systems.
Robust proficiency in Java, Go, or Scala, with a track record of writing clean, highly performant backend code.

Contributions to open-source projects in the data infrastructure ecosystem.
Experience operating infrastructure at consumer-internet scale (100M+ users).
For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below.
Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

Experience operating and troubleshooting data infrastructure at scale on top of Kubernetes in AWS or GCP.

$243,290 - $295,250 USD
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.

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.