Principal Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
Roblox · San Mateo, CA, United States
Posted about 3 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 87 days Roblox's roles stay open a median of 87 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Roblox's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Roblox
- high 234 stale, 9 reposted of 234 open
- Hiring momentum
- 313 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-29
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Roblox's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Roblox.
About this role
As a Principal Software Engineer for the Metrics Platform at Roblox, you will lead the technical direction and architecture of a metrics platform that supports analytics and data processing for a vast user base. Your responsibilities include defining metrics, establishing shared semantics, guiding cross-team initiatives, and enhancing the reliability and efficiency of the metrics lifecycle. You will also mentor engineers and explore AI/ML capabilities for data discovery and platform interaction.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Roblox as an employer.
What you need
- B.S. equivalent in CS or sufficient experience
- 10+ years of experience building, designing, testing and maintaining production-grade, large-scale distributed systems
- Extensive experience designing and delivering production-grade distributed systems or data platforms
- A record of setting technical direction for systems that span multiple teams or product areas
- Deep experience in one or more areas such as data platforms, metadata and catalog systems, semantic layers, analytical systems, or large-scale data processing
- Strong engineering skills in Java, Go, Scala, or Python, and experience designing reliable services and APIs
Nice to have
- Experience building metric or semantic platforms, data catalogs, lineage systems, or data governance capabilities
- Experience making metric definitions usable across multiple query or compute engines
- Contributions to open-source data infrastructure projects
- Experience operating data infrastructure at consumer-internet scale
What you get
- Equity compensation
- Benefits as described in the posting
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of remote work flexibility beyond the onsite schedule
- Salary range provided but subject to change and dependent on various factors
- No details on specific benefits beyond equity and general descriptions
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Listed by Roblox on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-29. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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