Senior Software Engineer, Roblox

Data Platform

$289.5-338.3k

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Java

Kafka

Spark

Flink

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

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

Online gaming and entertainment platform

Job no longer available

Online gaming and entertainment platform

1001+ employees

B2CGamingEntertainmentCommunity

Job no longer available

$289.5-338.3k

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Java

Kafka

Spark

Flink

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

If you know what it takes to develop large-scale infrastructure to analyze user behavior from 200 million monthly users , you'll fit right into our accomplished and ever-expanding engineering team
Passion for development: We are Java, Go developers and are looking for applicants who have demonstrable expertise in using these languages at scale
6-10 years of experience building large scale http and gRPC microservices
6-10 years of experience with different real-time data streaming/serving technologies such as Flink, Beam, Spark, Kafka, Druid
6-10 years of experience operating real-time infrastructure on top of Kubernetes in AWS or GCP
Owned design, implementation, testing, and support of next-generation features related to scalability, reliability, robustness, usability, security, and performance of Roblox Core Data Pipeline

What the job involves

As a Senior Software Engineer, Data Services, you will be a necessary participant in helping our Data Infrastructure team shape the future of Roblox
You will report into the Engineering Manager of our Core Data Services team
You will have primary responsibility in building the massive horizontally scalable streaming and ingestion services that feed not only our Data Lake, Data Warehouse but also business critical applications
Work in Kafka, Spark or Flink - the engines upon which we are building our next generation streaming pipelines for Roblox scale
Be a part of a collaborative team: The Data Infrastructure Team and the Analytics Team are combined at Roblox to ensure that data processing and analytics are guided by the user needs - ie. query patterns and product requirements
Design data structures: For compact encoding of data for in-memory storage to enable in-stream computation-message fidelity from source to target: preserving message ordering guarantees across all nodes in the cluster
Work with our stakeholders to push innovation across Roblox

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

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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