Principal Software Engineer, Creator Analytics

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Roblox
Full time
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USA
11/14/2026
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San Mateo, CA

Responsibilities

Set the technical vision, architecture, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for Optimize’s streaming, batch, and analytical serving systems.
Define standards for late and out-of-order data, backfills, replays, data-quality validation, SLOs, alerting, and reliability.
Lead major data incident response, postmortems, capacity planning, load testing, performance optimization, and cost-efficiency initiatives.
Own architecture for Experiments, Remote Configs, Segmentation, assignment, targeting, exposure logging, and results pipelines.
Lead cross-team technical decisions and multi-team initiatives involving shared data infrastructure.
Mentor senior engineers, develop technical leaders, improve engineering practices, and influence planning with engineering, product, and design leadership.
Participate in the PagerDuty on-call rotation.

Requirements

10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 5+ years designing, building, and operating large-scale production data systems.
Track record of setting technical direction at the principal or staff-plus level across multiple teams or systems.
Deep production expertise with Apache Kafka and Apache Flink or equivalent streaming technologies, including event time, watermarks, windowing, state, and delivery guarantees.
Experience with Apache Spark or Hive and Apache Airflow or equivalent orchestration systems, including DAG design, SLAs, dependencies, and large-scale backfills.
Experience with Apache Druid and/or StarRocks or equivalent real-time OLAP systems, including ingestion, rollups, partitioning, and query tuning.
Experience shaping company-scale shared data platforms, ETL frameworks, standardized tables, and multi-team clusters.
Expertise in at least one of C#/.NET, Java/Scala, or Go, plus Python for pipelines and tooling.
Experience designing and operating gRPC/REST services at scale.
Experience defining SLOs, monitoring, and alerting and leading major production incident response and postmortems.
Strong technical writing, communication, and cross-team alignment skills with senior leadership.

Benefits

Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and benefits.
For San Mateo, California office roles, the stated annual base salary range is $345,040–$399,420 USD.
Office-based roles are onsite Tuesday through Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday unless otherwise noted.

Salary: $345k - $399k/yr

Roblox

Roblox's vision is to reimagine the way people come together. Our mission is to connect a billion people with optimism and civility. What is Roblox? Roblox is a platform where people come together virtually to share experiences. Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to ...

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