Principal Software Engineer Data - Search & Discovery Platform

Company: Roblox
Location: San Mateo
Posted on: June 16, 2022

Job Description:

Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to Roblox to play, learn, work, and socialize in immersive digital experiences created by the community. Our vision is to build a platform that enables shared experiences among billions of users. This is what's known as the metaverse: a persistent space where anyone can do just about anything they can imagine, from anywhere in the world and on any device. Join us and you'll usher in a new category of human interaction while solving exceptional challenges that you won't find anywhere else.As an S&D Software Engineer (focused on Data) you will work on various big data systems used by S&D. These include batch and streaming pipelines, feature stores, recommendation systems, search engine indexing. The systems we build together will help Roblox do Search and Discovery better which will make users happier. Additionally, we will grow the team and our systems together.People in this role should expect challenges requiring a variety of skillsets including: building microservices and pipelines, managing data infrastructure, data analysis, and scaling machine learning workloads.We Will:Define and build the Data Infra for S&D workflowsBuild tooling to interact with S&D data systemsBuild batch and streaming pipelines that populate S&D data stores such as the Signal PlatformDevelop complex backend systems used in serving search and recommendationsYou Are:9+ years experience working on data heavy applications.Fluent in SQL and another modern programming language such as Java, Python, C#, and more.An expert on big data tools/frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Kafka, Flink, and more.An expert on building and scaling microservices.Someone who will report into the Search and Discovery Organization.You May Have:Worked with ETL orchestration tools like Airflow, Luigi, etc.Familiarity with Elasticsearch.Worked with Terraform or similar tools to manage IaC.Equal Employment Opportunity statement below.You'll Love: Industry-leading compensation packageExcellent medical, dental, and vision coverageA rewarding 401k programFlexible vacation policyRoflex - Flexible and supportive work policy Roblox Admin badge for your avatarAt Roblox HQ: Free catered lunchesOnsite fitness center and fitness program creditAnnual CalTrain Go Pass

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