Senior Software Engineer, Realtime Analytics Platform

Roblox, San Mateo, CA

The role

Roblox's data infrastructure processes petabytes of data daily, powering analytics, ML, and product decisions for a platform serving 200M+ daily active users. As a Senior Software Engineer on our Real-time Analytics Platform team, you will design, build, and scale the core OLAP infrastructure powering sub-second analytical queries across Roblox. Our team directly owns and operates StarRocks and Apache Druid, driving high-throughput streaming ingestion and low-latency MPP query processing.

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Senior Software Engineer, Realtime Analytics Platform

Roblox, San Mateo, CA

Posted pay

$243K–$295K

a year

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This base pay is above the median for senior infrastructure, platform and SRE jobs in the Bay Area.

Median: $214K a year
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Location: San Mateo, CA
Work type: Not given
Level: Senior
Experience: 6+ years
Skills in the job text: AWS
SQL
Kubernetes
GCP
Java
Go
C++
Terraform
ClickHouse
Flink
Kafka
Scala
Posted: 21 days ago
Last check: 9 h ago
Job type: Infra, platform & SRE

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Roblox

Open tech jobs: 214
With posted pay: 99%
Median posted base: $243K–$295K

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Company facts

Money raised: $918MSum of funding rounds on record
Newest raise: Jun 2, 2026First sale on an SEC filing

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The role

What you need

6+ years of experience building, designing, testing and maintaining production-grade, large-scale distributed systems.
Deep OLAP & MPP Engine Depth: Strong hands-on engineering or operational experience with StarRocks or adjacent OLAP engines such as Apache Druid, ClickHouse, Apache Doris, Apache Pinot, or Trino/Presto.
Streaming & Ingestion Architecture: Proven track record implementing high-volume streaming ingestion using Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Routine Load / Broker Load, or Debezium/CDC pipelines.
Data Modeling & Query Optimization: Expertise in OLAP schema design (partitioning, bucketing, sort keys, indexing) and tuning cost-based SQL query engines for massive scale.
Strong Engineering Foundations: Robust proficiency in Java, Go, C++, or Scala, with a track record of writing clean, highly performant distributed backend code.
Infrastructure & Orchestration: Experience operating, troubleshooting, and provisioning data infrastructure at scale using Kubernetes and Terraform on AWS or GCP.
Technical Leadership: Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across teams, mentor engineers, and drive alignment on complex cross-cutting initiatives.
B.S. equivalent in CS or sufficient experience.
Bonus Points:
Core contributions to open-source OLAP databases (StarRocks, Apache Druid, ClickHouse, Apache Doris).
Experience operating real-time analytical platforms at consumer-internet scale (100M+ active users).

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.

Senior Software Engineer, Realtime Analytics Platform

The role

Senior Software Engineer, Realtime Analytics Platform

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