Senior Data Scientist, Roblox
Analytical Data Product, Safety
$258.5-316.5k
Plus equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Online gaming & entertainment platform
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Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$258.5-316.5k
Plus equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help connect and bring together people from around the world through play.
Role
Who you are
- An Advanced or equivalent Degree in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, or related discipline
- 6+ years of industry or equivalent experience in Data Science and Analytics
- 6+ years of experience with SQL and data visualization
- 4+ years of experience in analytical engineering or similar role
- Experience with data mining, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
- Experience working with complex datasets in the safety, social, compliance, or growth domain and/or gaming industry
- Experience in scripting languages like Python or R for data manipulation
- Passionate about leveraging data solutions to drive decisions and optimize business performance
- Strive to write elegant and maintainable code, clear documentations and comfortable with picking up new technologies
- Strong product mindset and data intuition. Keen to apply analytical and data engineering skills to translate business problems into scalable engineering solutions, and experience thinking about the data itself as a product
- An expert at transforming data with SQL and a scripting language such as Python or R. You're experienced in automating efforts and crunching massive volumes of data in distributed systems using frameworks such as Spark, Hadoop or Flink
- Motivated by impact. You find satisfaction in being able to point to direct contributions you've made to an organization. You recognize the inherent tradeoffs between further research/experimentation and productionization apply the appropriate methodology to maximize impact
- A strong communicator. You understand that analysis must be presented in meaningful ways and engage in spirited discussions about the findings. You have the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences and discuss appropriate tradeoffs
What the job involves
- This role will work very closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and other Data Scientists to build best-in-class Safety products
- Roblox has unique safety challenges in the content moderation space and in understanding user identity, and this role powers company-wide decision making about critical safety issues
- This role combines technical expertise in analytics data engineering and data science, focused on building analytics products and empowering teams with actionable insights
- You will play a key role in creating foundational datasets, maintaining scalable data systems, and delivering world-class visualizations and insights to deepen our understanding of users
- This role will report directly into Senior Data Science leadership.
- Create and manage foundational datasets that power company-wide reporting and analytics use cases
- Build interactive data tools and dashboards to deepen our understanding of our Safety systems
- Build production-level quality and anomaly and monitoring on some of our most critical internal models
- Scale our data foundation while maintaining high data quality, scalability, and reliability
- Define key metric frameworks in collaboration with cross-functional partners and data scientists
- Use your understanding of business logic and technical expertise to solve complex data challenges
Our take
While online gaming is no longer a revolutionary concept, Roblox has established itself as a leader in the industry by creating a gaming toolbox that encourages quality game creation, which it pays developers for.
In addition to standard games, the platform offers virtual worlds and other experiences to explore and interact with. Its platform provides an online ecosystem for millions to create, socialize, chat, and explore immersive experiences with friends. In fact, in the US its used by two-thirds of children aged 9 to 12.
The experiences on the platform are made by Roblox's over three million creators, and are available on a range of devices from PC to Xbox to Oculus, and more. The company has grown at an impressive rate, and has been keen to adopt new developments in the tech world, for example with its real-time AI translation for players to interact outside their native tongue.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$520m
SERIES H
Feb 2020
$150m
SERIES G
Total funding: $922.8m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401k
- Flexible vacation policy
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
David Baszucki
(CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford before founding Knowledge Revolution in 1990, where they spent 9 years as CEO. They worked as VP of MSC.Software for 2 years, and started Roblox in 2005.
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