Senior Software Engineer, Web Platform

San Mateo, CAfull timeOn Site

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$243k–$295k

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Roblox The Senior Software Engineer, Web Platform at Roblox builds the next-generation metrics platform to enable metric registration, discovery, versioning, ownership, dependencies, and governance. This role designs distributed services and data workflows that are observable, resilient, and efficient at Roblox scale.

Responsibilities

Build the metrics platform: Design and implement metric platform to enable metric registration, discovery, versioning, ownership, dependencies, and governance. Lead the effort to integrate with analytics systems to consume shared metric definitions across query and compute engines, while preserving consistent semantics.
Connect definitions to data: Support the lifecycle from a metric’s logical definition to its physical materializations and serving locations, including integration with Spark, Flink, OLAP, and feature platforms.
Build for scale and reliability: Design distributed services and data workflows that are observable, resilient, and efficient at Roblox scale.
Work across teams: Partner with data engineers, analytics consumers, ML teams and infrastructure teams to understand their needs and evolve the platform around real use cases.
Shape technical direction: Drive architecture decisions and help establish a foundation that supports future metric use cases without tying definitions to a single execution engine.
Agentic Interface: Embed AI/ML capabilities within our data platform, leveraging LLMs for data discovery and generation, building autonomous, self-serve mechanisms for platform interaction layer.

Qualification

6+ years of experience buildingExperience with data platformsStrong engineering skills in JavaAnnual Salary Range$243

Required

6+ years of experience building, designing, testing and maintaining production-grade, large-scale distributed systems.
Experience with data platforms, metadata or catalog systems, semantic layers, analytical systems, or large-scale data processing.
Strong engineering skills in Java, Go, Scala, or Python, with experience designing reliable services and APIs.
Familiarity with SQL and data-processing systems such as Spark, Flink, Trino, Druid, or similar technologies.
Experience working across teams to make platform capabilities usable by other engineers.
Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across teams, mentor engineers, and drive alignment on complex cross-cutting initiatives.
B.S. equivalent in CS or sufficient experience.

Preferred

Experience designing metric or semantic platforms, data catalogs, lineage systems, or data governance capabilities.
Experience integrating metric definitions with multiple query or compute engines.
Contributions to open-source projects in the data infrastructure ecosystem.
Experience operating data infrastructure at consumer-internet scale.
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.
Annual Salary Range
$243,290—$295,250 USD
Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

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Roblox

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