Senior/Principal Software Engineer, Data Engineering

$258,960 - $258,960/Yr

Roblox - San Mateo, CA

Full-time - Senior

San Mateo, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

At Roblox, the Data Engineering team plays a crucial role in 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 be responsible for defining the data ontology for all of Roblox, establishing standard methodologies for data operations and lifecycle management, designing and building analytics tooling and frameworks, and influencing event instrumentation. This position requires 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. You will be part of a dynamic team driving innovation and growth at Roblox, working to shape the future of human interaction and solving unique technical challenges at scale. This role will report to the Engineering Manager on the Data Engineering team.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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)

Benefits

• Industry-leading compensation package
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• A rewarding 401k program
• 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