Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering (Short Term)

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 model business entities as core data sets

Develop scalable frameworks and tooling to automate analytics workflows and streamline users interactions with data products

Establish and evangelize best practices for data operations and lifecycle management

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 stakeholders

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 hourly rate could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Please note that not all benefits shown on this page are applicable to this temporary position.

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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For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.