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Senior Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Matchmaking

Roblox · San Mateo, CA, United States · On-site

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About Roblox

Roblox is a global platform where millions of people gather together every day to imagine, create, and share experiences with each other in immersive, user-generated 3D worlds. Backed by First Round.

About the role

A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. As a Senior Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll build scalable, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure that powers ML systems across our organization. You’ll operate at the scales of tens of billions of scorings, and redefine how we match hundreds of millions of users to millions of games. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying large-scale machine learning and data systems in production environments
  • 3+ years of experience tech-leading ML infrastructure or data engineering teams
  • Hands-on experience with large-scale streaming and data processing systems (e.g., Kafka, Flink, Spark, Beam) and real-time feature pipelines
  • Experience building or operating online, incremental, or continual learning systems for recommendation, ranking, or search is a strong plus
  • Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to problem solving
  • BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
More about this role

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.

At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.

A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

Matchmaking is a critical stage downstream of Discovery and Search. Once a player chooses a game to play, matchmaking assigns them to a server for that game. That decision shapes who they play with, the network latency they experience, and the quality of their session. By matching players to servers that fit their needs and each developer’s game, matchmaking helps turn discovery into satisfying play, repeat visits,...

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