Senior/Principal Software Engineer, Data Engineering
Job Summary
Job Description
- 8+ years building scalable ETL pipelines with Airflow, Dagster, Luigi, or Google Cloud Composer.
- Deep expertise in SQL, PySpark, or Scala.
- 3+ years leading data engineering development with business or data science partners.
- Experience building and maintaining multi-terabyte datasets.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience developing or enhancing ETL orchestration tools or frameworks.
- Worked within standard GitOps workflow (branch and merge, PRs, CI/CD systems).
- Expansive toolbox for debugging large-scale analytics challenges (skew mitigation, sampling strategies, accumulation patterns, data sketches).
- Experience with cloud's suite of offerings.
- Equity compensation
- Benefits
8 skills required
Job Details
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.
At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
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/Principal 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.
You Will:
- 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
You Have:
- 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)
For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.
Roles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations for all candidates during the interview process.
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