Senior Software Engineer, Roblox

Data Engineering

$243.3-295.3k

+ Equity

SQL

AWS

GCP

Scala

Airflow

Azure

Luigi

Cloud Composer

Branch

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

3-5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)

Online gaming & entertainment platform

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Online gaming & entertainment platform

1001+ employees

B2CGamingEntertainmentCommunity

Be an early applicant

$243.3-295.3k

+ Equity

SQL

AWS

GCP

Scala

Airflow

Azure

Luigi

Cloud Composer

Branch

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

3-5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)

1001+ employees

B2CGamingEntertainmentCommunity

Company mission

To connect a billion people with optimism and civility.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

8+ years of professional experience working building scalable ETL pipelines on industry standard ETL orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Luigi, Google Cloud Composer, etc.) with deep expertise in SQL, PySpark, or scala
3+ years leading data engineering development directly with business or data science partners
Built, scaled, and maintained Multi-Terabyte data sets and have an expansive toolbox for debugging and unblocking large scale analytics challenges (skew mitigation, sampling strategies, accumulation patterns, data sketches, etc.)
Experience with at least one major cloud's suite of offerings (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Developed or enhanced ETL orchestrations tools or frameworks
Worked within standard GitOps workflow (branch and merge, PRs, CI / CD systems)

What the job involves

The Data Engineering team at Roblox plays a fundamental role in enabling the company's success by developing and maintaining highly leveraged Core Data Sets, frameworks, and tooling to support the growing demand for analytics
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will work to define the data ontology for all of Roblox, establish standard methodologies for data operations and lifecycle management, design and build analytics tooling and frameworks, and influence event instrumentation
Additionally, this role is highly multi-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 integrated solutions
Join us and be a part of a dynamic team driving innovation and growth at Roblox
This role will report to our Engineering Manager on the Data Engineering team
Partner with Data Science, Product, and Engineering to collect requirements to define the data ontology for all of Roblox
Lead and mentor a growing team of Data Engineers to support Roblox's ever-evolving data needs
Design, build, and maintain efficient and reliable batch and streaming data pipelines to populate core data sets
Develop scalable frameworks and tooling to automate analytics workflows and streamline users interactions with data products
Establish and promote standard methodologies for data operations and lifecycle management

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.

The platform has faced scrutiny over user safety, but responded by strengthen parental controls and launching initiatives like its "Parents Council". This move to address these issues, atop its strong financial performance and record payouts to developers, showcase Roblox's trajectory as one of innovation and impressive growth.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

25% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.8)

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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