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Salary: USD 243,290 - 295,250 / annual
Roblox is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to architect and build high-scale, reliable real-time and batch data systems for the Economy ML team. This team powers Roblox's Marketplace, Developer Monetization, and Payments ecosystems through intelligent pricing, personalized storefronts, dynamic layout optimization, and avatar understanding.
In this role, you will act as the data engineer for Economy ML, setting standards for batch vs streaming feature pipelines, table design, observability, and documentation across the Economy group. You'll work as a hands-on contributor on data systems powering content recommendation, search, and personalization across multiple product surfaces. Key responsibilities include:
- Architecting event taxonomies and logging interfaces to support real-time feature serving across search and recommendation surfaces
- Partnering with Product, Data Science, and ML engineering teams to prioritize data initiatives that unlock business goals and reduce technical debt
- Collaborating with other data and ML engineers to establish best practices for schema design, client logging, experimentation data, and feature pipelines
- Working across partner and platform teams to ensure products are built with a community-first approach
- Researching and leveraging industry-leading practices while driving product impact
Your work will influence virtual item recommendations, Robux pricing, page layout, avatar generation, and more. You'll build on Roblox's ML Platform and Data Infrastructure to accelerate data analysis, experimentation, and rapid deployment of product ML solutions. The role operates in a fluid pod model, allowing you to allocate effort to the most strategic initiatives without rigid silos.
Roblox is based in San Mateo, CA with a hybrid work arrangement: onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years of experience as a product-focused data systems engineer, preferably with search, recommendation, advertising, or personalization systems
- Experience designing efficient logging schemas and optimizing data processing pipelines
- Experience with real-time stream processing and batch processing (Flink, Spark, Kafka, Druid, or similar)
- Familiarity with feature stores and machine learning infrastructure
- Technical leadership: initiated and facilitated challenging technical solutions; technical expertise influences product direction; nurtures culture of technical excellence
- Versatility: comfortable with multiple languages and technologies; adaptable and resourceful with creative, strategic problem-solving approach
- Analytical mindset: excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems and quantify solutions
- User-oriented: prioritizes needs of Roblox users and internal engineers in solution architecture
- Team-oriented: lifts up peers and strengthens team performance
