Principal Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

What this role involves

Roblox seeks a Principal Software Engineer to define multi-year technical strategy and architecture for data infrastructure processing petabytes daily. The role leads cross-functional alignment, optimizes distributed engine internals, pioneers AI/ML integration, and cultivates engineering excellence.

Skills this posting asks for

• kafka
• flink
• spark
• trino
• druid
• airflow
• data catalog
• ai/ml
• llm
• distributed systems
• query planning
• state management
• serialization
• memory optimization
• chaos engineering
• engineering mentorship

Requirements

• Level: principal

From the employer’s posting

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