Work with the most passionate and team-oriented people you'll ever meet. As a Principal Big Data Software Engineer, you will be a necessary participant in helping our Data Infrastructure team shape the future of Roblox. You will report into the Engineering Manager of our Core Data Services team. You will have primary responsibility in building the massive horizontally scalable streaming and ingestion services that feed not only our Data Lake, Data Warehouse but also business critical applications. If you know what it takes to develop large-scale infrastructure to analyze user behavior from 200 million monthly users , you'll fit right into our accomplished and ever-expanding engineering team.

You Will:

• Work in Kafka, Spark or Flink - the engines upon which we are building our next generation streaming pipelines for Roblox scale.
• Be a part of a collaborative team: The Data Infrastructure Team and the Analytics Team are combined at Roblox to ensure that data processing and analytics are guided by the user needs - ie. query patterns and product requirements.
• Design data structures: For compact encoding of data for in-memory storage to enable in-stream computation-message fidelity from source to target: preserving message ordering guarantees across all nodes in the cluster.
• Work with our stakeholders to push innovation across Roblox

You Have:

• Passion for development: We are Java, Go developers and are looking for applicants who have demonstrable expertise in using these languages at scale.
• 8+ years of experience with different real-time data streaming/serving technologies such as Flink, Beam, Spark, Kafka, Druid.
• 3+ years of experience operating real-time infrastructure on top of Kubernetes in AWS or GCP.
• Owned design, implementation, testing, and support of next-generation features related to scalability, reliability, robustness, usability, security, and performance of Roblox Core Data Pipeline.