Data Engineer 2c Data Foundations Specialist in San Mateo

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 crucial 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 Principal Data Engineer, you will work to define the data ontology for all of Roblox, establish best practices and standards for data operations and lifecycle management, design and build analytics tooling and frameworks, and influence event instrumentation. Additionally, 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 integrated solutions. Join us and be a part of a dynamic team driving innovation and growth at Roblox. You Will: Partner with Data Science, Data Platform, 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 mod

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 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 an

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. At Roblox, we strive to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and the Safety organization’s mission is to become the leader in civil immersive online communities. We systematically detect, remove, and prevent problematic accounts, content and behavior, and we make Roblox accounts secure and free from compromise. We cover a broad area of the tech spectrum, including machine learning, classifiers for 3D models, experimentation, automation, detection workflows, and AI-powered text filters. Aligned and partnering with product teams, we use this tool-belt to discover new opportunities, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build safety products, and measure the impact on our community of users and developers. In doing so, we keep Roblox safe, civil, and inclusive, and we foster positive relationships between people around the world. WHY Safety Data Infrastructure To pro-actively find bad actors and protect good users, Roblox needs to ingest enormous amounts of data and make it usable both to our automated detection systems and for human moderators and customer support agents doing investigations. The Safety Data Infrastructure team is addressing these needs w

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 Access team within Infra / Storage builds EaaS (Entities-as-a-Service), Roblox’s large-scale managed OLTP access and management platform powering tens of millions of QPS across thousands of services. EaaS abstracts the complexity of distributed databases and caching systems behind a consistent and productive developer experience, enabling teams across Roblox to safely build and operate stateful systems at massive scale without requiring deep database expertise. The team operates at the intersection of distributed systems engineering, reliability engineering, and platform architecture — solving hard infrastructure problems that directly impact Roblox-wide scale and stability. As a Senior Software Engineer you will work on some of Roblox’s hardest backend infrastructure challenges around scalability, reliability, workload governance, adaptive flow control, and distributed systems. You Will Build and evolve EaaS, Roblox’s managed OLTP access platform powering tens of millions of QPS across hundreds of services. Design infrastructure that abstracts distributed databases and caching systems behind a consistent, safe, and highly productive developer experience. Drive reliability and scal

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. Who We Are: Shape the future of Roblox’s virtual economy. The Economy ML team is building the machine learning backbone that powers Roblox’s Marketplace, Developer Monetization, and Payments ecosystems. From intelligent pricing and personalized storefronts to dynamic layout optimization and avatar understanding, we’re reimagining how the Roblox economy drives user engagement, monetization, and creator success at scale. As a Principal Software Engineer (Data Systems) , you will architect, build and deploy high-scale, reliable real-time and batch data systems for personalization, search and recommendation across various product surfaces in Marketplace, Developer Monetization and Payments. You will be involved in key data projects from architecting event taxonomies and logging interfaces to real-time feature serving across multiple search and recommendation surfaces. What You’ll Do Act as data engineering lead for Economy ML, setting standards for batch vs streaming feature pipelines, table design, observability, and documentation used across the Economy group. Work as a hands-on contributor on our data systems to power content recommendation, search and personalization across Economy product

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. With Roblox’s daily active users growing at a record pace, we are seeking a senior data infrastructure engineer to join our new Data Insights team. Our team owns the data tooling that empowers Roblox builders to independently make informed and timely data-driven decisions. As an engineer on the team, you’ll work on the platforms behind tools like Superset, Hex, and Python notebooks, which provide critical insights into the health of our business to users at every level of the company. We tackle diverse challenges in data engineering, infrastructure, and analytics, to deliver the insights our customers need. You will collaborate closely with engineers across our data ecosystem to shape the future of product analytics at Roblox. This role offers the chance to be a founding team member and help define both the technical direction and the long-term shape of the product area from the ground up. This role is a great fit for you if you are proficient in designing and scale robust data infrastructure and applications and have a zeal for developing inspiring, easily maintainable, and reusable code. Join our team and make a significant impact at Roblox. You Will: Architect and deliver a high-pe

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. As a Senior Security Engineer on the Detection and Response (D&R) team at Roblox, you’ll protect our user community alongside the underlying platform infrastructure. You’ll design high-fidelity detections, engineer security data platforms, and respond alongside the team during incidents. This is a hybrid in-office role in San Mateo. You Will: Deliver robust D&R capabilities: Engineer high-fidelity detections end-to-end. Lead partners through threat modeling and logging, to deploying actionable alerts, while keeping false positives low. Build security data pipelines: Develop security data pipelines and actively contribute to internal software and data platforms, collaborating across engineering teams. Ensure service reliability: Participate in an on-call rotation to keep detection and response services healthy. Embody security culture: Serve as a trusted security partner across Roblox, helping protect our community and enterprise while fostering a culture grounded in trust, ownership, and shared responsibility. You Have: 3+ years of experience in Security Data Engineering: You have built services that are efficient, reliable, and scalable using programming languages like Golang or Py

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. We're looking for an outstanding engineer to join the Roblox Datasets team. We develop and maintain highly leveraged core datasets, frameworks, and tooling that support the growing demand for analytics across the company. Our team sits within Foundation AI, and we partner closely with Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Data Science. We help these teams move faster by making core data more reliable, better modeled, easier to discover, and easier to use. This team sits at an important intersection between platform and product. We partner broadly across major Roblox pillars, including Infra, Economy, Creator, Engine, Ads, Discovery, Growth, Compliance, Safety, Apps, and Social. That means you will have broad exposure to both technical and business problems. You Will: Build and improve the data pipelines, datasets, and internal tools that power decision-making across Roblox Partner with engineers, data scientists, and product teams to turn messy, ambiguous data needs into reliable, reusable data assets Help improve data quality, observability, reliability, and discoverability across the stack Contribute to foundational work that supports multiple product pillars, not just a single surface are

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. Roblox's data infrastructure processes petabytes of data daily, powering analytics, ML, and product decisions for a platform serving 200M+ daily active users. As a Principal Software Engineer in our Data Infra org, you will be the primary technical leader driving the strategic vision, long-term architecture, and massive scalability of our distributed data platforms that power Roblox. You will own and drive the next-generation architecture of our core platforms, which span Kafka, Flink, Spark, Trino, Druid, Airflow and Data Catalog. This role operates under high ambiguity, demanding unparalleled ownership to redefine the limits of infrastructure handling exabyte-scale workloads, and providing a unique opportunity to lead the future evolution of our global data ecosystem. You Will: Define Multi-Year Technical Strategy: Own and drive the end-to-end architectural vision for Roblox's core data platforms spanning Kafka, Flink, Spark, Trino, Druid, Airflow, and Data Catalog systems. Turn multi-year company strategies into concrete, production-grade infrastructure blueprints. Lead Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner closely with executive leadership, platform governance, data science, and product e

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. Roblox's data infrastructure processes petabytes of data daily, powering analytics, ML, and product decisions. As a Senior Software Engineer in our Data Infra org, you will design, build, and scale the distributed data infrastructure platforms that power Roblox. You will own and drive the next-generation architecture of our core platforms, which span Kafka, Flink, Spark, Trino, Druid, Airflow and Data Catalog. This role combines high ambiguity and ownership to push the boundaries of what our infrastructure can handle at massive scale, giving you the unique opportunity to steer the evolution of the data landscape. You Will: Own and Scale Core Platform Components: Take responsibility for the design, architecture, and implementation of 1–2 key data platform frameworks within our stack Collaborate and Align: Partner with infra, data science, and product engineering teams to ensure your target platform's capabilities are directly guided by platform governance and product requirements. Optimize Performance at Scale: Dive deep into engine internals, query planning, state management, memory optimization, serialization efficiency to maximize throughput and reliability under heavy load. Drive Infrast

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. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Foundation AI organization, you will sit at the epicenter of our foundation model efforts. While the research world is focused on architecture, you will be the architect of the data flywheel that makes VideoGen and 3DGen possible. You aren't just building pipelines; you are building the infrastructure that defines how our models perceive and generate virtual worlds in three dimensions and across time. In this role, you will partner directly with our AI researchers to advance beyond experimental datasets and into the realm of dynamic, high-fidelity data synthesis and evaluation. You will bridge the gap between research prototypes working locally to scaling for millions of users. You will design, implement, and scale robust, high-performance infrastructure to crawl, create, curate, store, and serve the massive datasets required for these models. We are seeking accomplished software engineers with a passion for data, experience building large distributed systems, and a commitment to writing high-quality, well-tested code to solve complex data challenges at scale. Your contributions will ensure that our foundation models receive the highest quality dat

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. ML Platform @ Roblox today supports hundreds of ML use cases and billions of inferences per day across Discovery, Safety, Engine, and much more. As a Model Optimization engineer on ML Platform, you will be responsible for digging deep into model internals to optimize performance, for both training and inference. We are looking for accomplished engineers to help us maximize performance of our platform. You Will: Optimize machine learning models for performance on GPU architectures, focusing on both training and inference workflows. Conduct low-level performance profiling analysis to identify bottlenecks in existing machine learning pipelines and propose actionable improvements. Contribute to the development of best practices and tooling for model optimization and deployment. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists and software engineers, to integrate and deploy optimized models into production environments. Partner across organizations to build tooling, interfaces, and visualizations that make the ML@Roblox a delight to use. You Have: 6+ years of professional experience and a tool chest of system design experience upon which to draw to build performant system

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. ML Platform @ Roblox today supports hundreds of ML use cases and billions of inferences per day across Discovery, Safety, Engine, and much more. As an Infrastructure Engineer on the ML Platform team, you will design, scale, and maintain the foundational infrastructure powering our entire machine learning ecosystem. We are looking for accomplished engineers to spearhead the development of our next-generation ML tooling and platform capabilities. You will: Bootstrap and maintain Kubernetes and Cloud infrastructure for ML Platform components--Serving Layer, Metadata Store, Model Registry, and Pipeline Orchestrator. Set technical strategy and oversee development of high scale and reliable infrastructure systems. Propose and implement new platform tooling to improve time to production for MLEs and Data Scientists across the full ML lifecycle. Work on infrastructure projects such as GPU fleet management, hybrid-cloud orchestration, and writing custom Kubernetes controllers and resources. Stay abreast of industry trends in machine learning and infrastructure to ensure the adoption of leading-edge technologies and practices. Partner across organizations to build tooling, interfaces, and visualizati

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. As a Design Engineer on the Design Acceleration team, you’ll be an individual contributor focused on evolving the systems and processes which power Roblox’s design organization through scalable systems, AI integrations, and custom tooling. Our team is responsible for building the orchestration layers and internal tools that empower designers and engineers to work faster and more cohesively. You will help build internal tools, like Figma plugins and design utilities, that empower designers and engineers to work faster and more cohesively. You have experience at the intersection of systems engineering and design tooling. You understand design systems, but your superpower is building the backend services, APIs, and data models that allow those systems to scale. Your work will help ensure our design tools, AI agents, and prototypes not only inspire—but deploy seamlessly into production environments. You will: Architect and build scalable backend services and APIs that connect our design tools to AI models and production environments (Roblox Studio). Develop agentic workflows and orchestration layers (such as Model Context Protocol servers) to enable natural language generation of UI components,

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. As a Software Engineer on the Communications team, you will work on real-time communication across 2D and 3D spaces for billions of users while keeping interactions civil, safe, and expressive. Communication is at the core of what makes Roblox a vibrant social platform, the systems you build will define how tens of millions of people connect every day. You will work with teams across Game Engine, Safety, and ML Platform, building backend services at scale, data pipelines, and ML models that strengthen the underlying chat and policy infrastructure. You will build and ship detection systems that identify chat violations and continuously evolve to outpace bad actors circumventing our safety policies. As a core contributor to a broader suite of communication products, you will drive feature development while embedding safety into the foundation of the platform. If you are a developer with an understanding of large scale systems and want to shape how the next generation of Roblox users interact safely in the metaverse, you’ll be right at home within our highly-skilled and rapidly growing team. You will: Engineer and scale the communication infrastructure that supports millions of c