Senior/Principal Platform Engineer, Roblox
ML Platform
$273.1-338.3k
+ 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
$273.1-338.3k
+ 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
- 5+ years of professional experience and have a wealth of system design experience upon which to draw to build a scalable, reliable ML platform for all of Roblox
- Proficiency in API design and developer experience—gRPC/REST APIs, SDKs, CLIs, and simple UIs that developers love to use
- Experience with the end‑to‑end ML model lifecycle such as model serving, training, model CI/CD, and GPU resources management, and have built ML platform features that are delightful to use
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or a similar technical field
- A Code Machine; you love not only to design and communicate ideas but also to actually ship product. You obsess about user feedback, and constantly drive towards getting platform features in customers hands
- Passionate about supporting ML engineers to meet and understand their needs, and translating them into clean, durable platform abstractions
- You're passionate about infrastructure‑as‑code and automating painful manual processes. You push for platform solutions that don’t leave on-call teams carrying the burden of design choices
- A clear communicator who excels at both written and verbal communication across differing levels of technical detail
What the job involves
- This role blends product thinking, developer experience, backend engineering, and infrastructure at scale. Hands‑on ML experience is a plus; a track record of building internal platforms that developers love is a must
- Own platform as a product and set direction end to end: Define requirements, write RFDs, and ship APIs, SDKs, CLIs, and UIs that make ML@Roblox easy to adopt
- Bootstrap and maintain core ML Platform components: Serving Layer, Model Registry, Pipeline Orchestrator, and Training/Inference control planes
- Set technical strategy and oversee development of high scale and reliable infrastructure systems, with clear SLOs for latency, availability, and cost
- Design great developer experiences with paved‑road templates, golden paths, opinionated defaults, and clear docs to reduce time‑to‑first‑production
- Instrument the platform to measure adoption, friction, reliability, and cost; use data to prioritize roadmap and validate outcomes
- Partner across organizations (ML Engineering, Data Science, Infra/SRE, Security, Finance) to optimize performance, safety, and spend, especially for GPU‑intensive training and high‑QPS inference
- Propose and implement new platform tooling to improve time to production for MLEs across the full ML lifecycle
- Stay abreast of industry trends in machine learning and infrastructure to ensure the adoption of leading‑edge technologies and practices
- Mentor junior and senior engineers, lead design reviews, and drive cross‑team architectural decisions that last
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.
Freddie
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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