Roblox
Senior Software Engineer - Data Acquisition
$197K–$243K
San Mateo, CA, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of work experience; the posting also accepts sufficient experience in place of a B.S. equivalent in CS.
- Education
- B.S. equivalent in CS or sufficient experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- For US-based roles, the company may not be able to employ candidates whose work authorization relates to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
About the job
Build data acquisition and infrastructure services that source, process, and store datasets for Roblox’s foundation models, while developing analytics tools and agentic automation.
What you'll do
- Design and scale reliable, observable, privacy-compliant data infrastructure and analytics tools.
- Build intelligent agentic automation to accelerate analytical workflows and contribute to internal developer platforms.
- Lead technical work, mentor junior engineers, and own projects through their full lifecycle.
What they ask for
- 5+ years building production-grade, scalable, reliable data systems; B.S. equivalent in CS or sufficient experience.
- AWS infrastructure knowledge, including VPC, endpoints, private link, Terraform, and Amazon EKS.
- Infrastructure networking knowledge, including Kubernetes ingress, load balancers, and VPC networking; data infrastructure knowledge (Trino/Spark system configuration).
- Strong SQL and distributed engine knowledge; Python and notebook data stack.
Pay
$196,750 — $243,290 USD annual base salary
Tools
AWS, VPC, Terraform, Amazon EKS, k8s, Trino, Spark, Python
AI focus
Build intelligent agentic automation for analytical workflows and develop data services that supply training datasets for foundation models.
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