Senior Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer

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

Job summary

Roblox is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer in San Mateo, CA to build scalable ML infrastructure that powers matchmaking, recommendations, and search. You will work across model architecture and data systems with ML engineers and data scientists to push the boundaries of large-scale training and serving.

You will design streaming pipelines, online learning, and low-latency inference, ensuring data correctness and reliable deployment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing, building, and deploying large-scale ML/data systems in production.
• 3+ years leading ML infra or data engineering teams.
• Hands-on with streaming/data processing (Kafka, Flink, Spark, Beam).
• Experience with online/continual learning for recommender, ranking, or search is a strong plus.
• Strong communication and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and own large-scale data engineering and streaming systems for ML.
• Build real-time event ingestion, streaming feature computation, and data quality guarantees.
• Develop online and continual learning systems with model updates and safe deployment.
• Evaluate tradeoffs across streaming, training, and inference for low-latency serving.
• Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to deploy robust ML platforms.

Skills

ML infrastructure

Data systems design

Streaming systems

Low-latency storage

Communication skills

Leadership

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Spark

Beam

Redis

Feast

Tecton

Cassandra

Job description

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, and long-term engagement, making it a direct lever for Roblox's growth.

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.

You will:

• Work at the intersection of model architecture and ML infrastructure, partnering closely with core modelers, data and AI infrastructure engineers, and product teams to push the boundaries of large-scale training and serving.
• Design and own large-scale data engineering and streaming systems that power ML, including real-time event ingestion, streaming feature computation, training-data generation, and data quality and freshness guarantees. This includes building low-latency pipelines with technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Spark Structured Streaming, and Ray, and keeping online and offline features consistent.
• Build online and continual learning systems that let models adapt to user behavior and content shifts in near real time. This includes incremental and streaming training, online model updates and fast model refresh, embedding and parameter-server synchronization, delayed-feedback and label-joining pipelines, and safe deployment through monitoring, drift detection, and automated rollback.
• Investigate model, data, and systems tradeoffs end to end, from streaming data pipelines and distributed training to low-latency inference and production serving. This includes designing efficient cache strategies, applying pruning and quantization, optimizing GPU utilization and memory efficiency, and developing custom kernels where needed.
• Own the architecture, establish engineering best practices of scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of ML infrastructure (e.g., training, serving, feature). You have deep production experience with low-latency key-value stores and feature registries like Redis, Feast, Tecton, or Cassandra.
• Work closely with data scientists, ML engineers, platform teams, and product stakeholders to design, implement, and operate robust ML platforms that accelerate model development and deployment.
• Stay abreast of industry trends in machine learning and infrastructure to ensure the adoption of leading-edge technologies and practices.

You have:

• 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.

Annual Salary Range

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page .

Annual Salary Range$243,290-$295,250 USD

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presen