About the job
Join the vibrant world of Roblox, where millions of users engage in limitless exploration, creativity, and social interaction through immersive 3D digital experiences, all crafted by our dynamic global community of developers and creators.
At Roblox, we are dedicated to constructing the tools and platform that enable our community to transform their imaginative ideas into reality. Our mission is to revolutionize how individuals connect, regardless of their location or device. We aim to unite a billion people with hope and respect, and we are seeking exceptional talent to join us on this journey.
A career at Roblox means playing a pivotal role in shaping the future of human interaction, tackling unique technical challenges at scale, and fostering safer, more respectful shared experiences for all.
Who We Are:
Help shape the future of Roblox’s virtual economy.
The Economy ML team is at the forefront of developing the machine learning infrastructure that drives Roblox’s Marketplace, Developer Monetization, and Payments systems. Our initiatives include intelligent pricing strategies, personalized storefronts, dynamic layout optimization, and enhanced avatar understanding, all designed to transform user engagement, monetization, and creator success on a grand scale.
As a Principal Software Engineer (Data Systems), you will be responsible for architecting, building, and deploying robust, high-scale real-time and batch data systems aimed at enhancing personalization, search, and recommendation functionalities across Marketplace, Developer Monetization, and Payments products. You will contribute to crucial data projects, from designing event taxonomies and logging interfaces to real-time feature serving across various search and recommendation platforms.
Your Responsibilities
- Lead data engineering efforts for the Economy ML team, establishing standards for batch versus streaming feature pipelines, table design, observability, and documentation across the Economy division.
- Actively engage as a hands-on contributor to our data systems, driving content recommendation, search, and personalization across Economy product surfaces.
- Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and ML engineering teams to prioritize data initiatives that align with key business objectives and mitigate technical debt in existing datasets and pipelines.
- Guide and mentor fellow DE/ML engineers on best practices for schema design, client logging, and more.

