Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer in the Metric Platform team at Roblox, you will design and implement a metrics platform that supports metric registration, discovery, and governance. Your role will involve building scalable and reliable distributed services, collaborating with various teams to understand their needs, and shaping the technical direction of the platform. You will also integrate AI/ML capabilities into the data platform to enhance data discovery and interaction.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- 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
- 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
Nice to have
- 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
What you get
- Equity compensation
- Benefits as described in the posting
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of remote work flexibility beyond the specified onsite days
- Salary range provided but dependent on various factors, which may lead to variability
- Role involves high ambiguity and ownership, which may not suit everyone
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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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