About the job
As a Senior Software Engineer (Data Systems), you will architect, build and deploy high-scale, reliable real-time and batch data systems for personalization, search and recommendation across various product surfaces in Marketplace, Developer Monetization and Payments. You will be involved in key data projects from architecting event taxonomies and logging interfaces to real-time feature serving across multiple search and recommendation surfaces.
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.
Research and leverage industry-leading practices while making product impact.
Qualifications
Minimum
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)
Familiarity with feature stores and other machine learning infrastructure.
Preferred
No preferred qualifications listed.