Senior Data Systems Engineer, Economy ML

Roblox; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 243,000 - 295,000; Full time

Job summary

Roblox is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Data Systems) within the Economy ML team in San Mateo, CA. You will architect and deploy high-scale real-time and batch data systems powering personalization, search, and recommendations across Marketplace, Developer Monetization and Payments.

You’ll lead data engineering standards, collaborate with Product, Data Science and ML engineering, and shape scalable pipelines while advancing a community-first platform.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a product‑focused data systems engineer (preferably working with search, recommendation, advertising or personalization systems).
• Experience designing efficient logging schemas and optimizing data processing pipelines.
• Experience with real‑time stream processing and batch processing (using technologies such as Flink, Spark, Kafka, Druid).

Responsibilities

• Act as data engineer for Economy ML, setting standards for batch vs streaming feature pipelines, table design, observability, and documentation used across the Economy group.
• Work as a hands-on contributor on our data systems to power content recommendation, search and personalization across Economy product surfaces.
• Partner with Product, Data Science and ML engineering counterparts to prioritize data initiatives that unlock top-line business goals and reduce tech debt in existing datasets and pipelines.
• Partner with other DE/ML engineers on best practices for schema design, client logging, experimentation data, and feature pipelines, raising the overall bar for data work.
• Collaborate with partner and platform teams across Roblox to make sure we are building products with a community first approach.

Skills

Data engineering

Data pipelines

Leadership

Tools

Flink

Spark

Kafka

Druid

Job description

Roblox is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Data Systems) within the Economy ML team in San Mateo, CA. You will architect and deploy high-scale real-time and batch data systems powering personalization, search, and recommendations across Marketplace, Developer Monetization and Payments.

You’ll lead data engineering standards, collaborate with Product, Data Science and ML engineering, and shape scalable pipelines while advancing a community-first platform.