Principal Software Engineer, Data Engineering
Roblox
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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 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
You Have:
- 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 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.
Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.
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.
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