Senior Software Engineer (Data Acquisition)
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Description
- We are seeking a senior software engineer to join our new Data Intake team
- Our team owns the tooling that sources and processes the training data that Roblox’s future foundation models are built on
- As an engineer on the team, you’ll build out a new service that can obtain diverse datasets from a wide variety of external sources, process them into consistent formats, and store them in a reliable and easily accessible location for our models to leverage
- You’ll collaborate closely with teammates across the company in data labeling and machine learning to ensure we deliver the datasets our customers need
- This role offers the chance to be a founding team member and help define both the technical direction and the long-term shape of the product area from the ground up
- This role is a great fit for you if you enjoy building and iterating quickly on new internal product offerings, are proficient in designing and scaling robust API integrations and data infrastructure, and have a zeal for developing inspiring, easily maintainable, and reusable code
- Join our team and make a significant impact at Roblox
- Architect and deliver a high-performance analytics environment that serves thousands of queries daily
- Design and scale robust data infrastructure for powering data retrieval and visualization
- Ensure data systems are reliable, observable, privacy-compliant, and performant
- Bridge the gap between data engineering, analytics, and infrastructure to deliver a suite of best-in class, fully featured, and easy to use data tools
- Build intelligent agentic automation to simplify and accelerate analytical workflows
- Contribute to internal platforms and tools that abstract complexity, improve developer productivity, and accelerate innovation
- Be a tech lead and mentor junior engineers
- Self-organize and take ownership of projects throughout their full lifecycle
- Infra networking (k8s ingress, load balancers, and VPC networking)
- Python and notebook data stack (e.g. pandas, ibis)
- 5+ years of work experience building production-grade, scalable, and reliable data systems; B.S. equivalent in CS or sufficient experience
- Strong SQL and distributed engine knowledge
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills; enjoy building systems that enable and accelerate team productivity
- AWS infra understanding (VPC, endpoints, private link, Terraform, Amazon EKS)
- Data infra understanding (Trino/Spark system configuration)