Engineering Manager, Roblox
Analytical Data Engineering
$289.5-338.3k
+ Equity compensation
More information about location
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Online gaming and entertainment platform
Open for applications
Online gaming and entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$289.5-338.3k
+ Equity compensation
More information about location
Office located in San Mateo, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect a billion people with optimism and civility.
Role
Who you are
- Leadership Experience: 2+ years managing a Data Engineering team
- Data Engineering Expertise: 8+ years of professional experience building multi-terabyte datasets and ETL pipelines on industry standard ETL orchestration tools and execution engines, with deep expertise in SQL and PySpark. You are comfortable designing new core datasets, debugging and optimizing complex business logic, and leading incident response for operational issues
- Product Analytics Breadth: proven track record building end-to-end analytics solutions to support Data Science, Experimentation, and Machine Learning applications
- Team-first Mindset: You're a collaborative leader who thrives on mentoring and enabling others to succeed
- Strategic Thinking: You’re comfortable balancing near-term impact with long-term innovation
What the job involves
- The Analytical Data Engineering team at Roblox is responsible for the most highly leveraged core datasets to support the growing demand for analytics reporting, experimentation, and machine learning applications
- We're looking for an engineering leader with deep expertise owning and operating performant data models and pipelines to support product analytics at petabyte scale
- In this role you will manage a centralized Data Engineering team with a large scope covering every product group at Roblox
- You will be responsible for growing the team through hiring and upleveling the existing engineers, establishing best practices and standards for data quality and reliability, and leading cross-team efforts to unlock the value of analytics data
- This role is highly cross-functional, requiring close collaboration with Data Science, Experimentation, and Machine Learning teams to understand customer requirements and analytics applications, as well as with Data Infrastructure and Storage teams to develop scalable solutions for more efficient and reliable data processing
- You'll lead and grow centralized team of Data Engineers to support Roblox's expanding and evolving Analytics data needs
- Establish best practices and standards for data modeling, data operations, data quality and reliability, and data lifecycle management. Ensure rigor through code review and unit test / data quality coverage
- Partner with cross-functional leads in Data Science, Product, and Engineering to understand business needs and develop analytics solutions to support them
- Design, build, and maintain efficient and reliable batch and streaming data pipelines to support core data sets
- Develop scalable frameworks and tooling to automate analytics workflows and streamline users interactions with data products
Our take
Online gaming may be a well-established space, but Roblox has distinguished itself as a leader by empowering its community to build, share, and profit from their own creations, turning game development into an accessible, rewarding ecosystem for millions of users.
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.
While the platform does face scrutiny over users safety (particularly given its young audience) the company's efforts to strengthen parental controls and open dialogue through initiatives like its new Parents Council signal a growing commitment to addressing these challenges. At the same time, its financial performance and creator-focused investments underscore a business in very strong health. With record payouts to developers, an expanding older player base, and a platform that increasingly rewards creative talent, Roblox's trajectory remains one of innovation and impressive growth.
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 HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
David Baszucki
(Founder & 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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