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Principal Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Roblox · San Mateo, CA, United States

Posted about 3 months ago

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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.

Our read on this posting2.4out of 5
benefits
1/5
freshness
1/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

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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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