Roblox
Principal Software Engineer, Metrics Platform
$295K–$345K
San Mateo, CA, United States · Principal · Full-time · Posted Jun 26, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years.
- Education
- B.S. equivalent in CS or sufficient experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- For US-based roles, the company may be unable to employ candidates with work authorization tied to certain U.S. visa categories or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
About the job
Sets technical direction and leads development of Roblox’s metrics platform, connecting trusted metric definitions to materializations and consumers across analytics and data systems.
What you'll do
- Define platform architecture, metric standards, governance, and interfaces across compute systems.
- Lead cross-team initiatives to connect metric definitions with materialization and serving systems, while improving reliability and adoption.
- Mentor engineers and develop self-service and agent-assisted platform workflows, including AI/ML capabilities.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of experience building, designing, testing, and maintaining production-grade, large-scale distributed systems.
- B.S. equivalent in CS or sufficient experience.
- Strong engineering skills in Java, Go, Scala, or Python; experience designing reliable services and APIs.
- Strong understanding of SQL and familiarity with Spark, Flink, Trino, Druid, or comparable technologies.
Nice to have
- Experience with metric or semantic platforms, data catalogs, lineage, governance, or making metrics usable across multiple compute engines.
- Open-source data infrastructure contributions or experience operating consumer-internet-scale data infrastructure.
Pay
$295,250 — $345,040 USD annual base pay (base salary).
Tools
Java, Go, Scala, Python, SQL, Spark, Flink, Trino
AI focus
Embed AI/ML capabilities in the data platform, using LLMs for data discovery and generation and building autonomous self-service mechanisms for platform interaction.
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