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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 6+ years of experience building, designing, testing and maintaining production-grade, large-scale distributed systems
- Deep OLAP & MPP Engine Depth : Strong hands-on engineering or operational experience with StarRocks or adjacent OLAP engines such as Apache Druid , ClickHouse , Apache Doris , Apache Pinot , or Trino/Presto
- Streaming & Ingestion Architecture : Proven track record implementing high-volume streaming ingestion using Apache Kafka , Apache Flink , Routine Load / Broker Load, or Debezium/CDC pipelines
- Data Modeling & Query Optimization : Expertise in OLAP schema design (partitioning, bucketing, sort keys, indexing) and tuning cost-based SQL query engines for massive scale
- Strong Engineering Foundations : Robust proficiency in Java , Go , C++ , or Scala , with a track record of writing clean, highly performant distributed backend code
- Infrastructure & Orchestration : Experience operating, troubleshooting, and provisioning data infrastructure at scale using Kubernetes and Terraform on AWS or GCP
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.
Roblox's data infrastructure processes petabytes of data daily, powering analytics, ML, and product decisions for a platform serving 200M+ daily active users. As a Senior Software Engineer on our Real-time Analytics Platform team , you will design, build, and scale the core OLAP infrastructure powering sub-second analytical queries across Roblox. Our team directly owns and operates StarRocks and Apache Druid ,...
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