Senior Software Engineer, Realtime Analytics Platform
Core
Design, build, and scale the core OLAP infrastructure powering sub-second analytical queries for Roblox's platform serving 200M+ daily active users.
Role type
Senior Software Engineer (Real-time Analytics Platform)
Builds
High-throughput streaming ingestion pipelines and low-latency MPP query processing engines (StarRocks, Apache Druid)
Domain
Internet / Real-time Data Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
OLAP & MPP engine architecture, streaming ingestion design, distributed systems engineering, query optimization, cluster infrastructure management, technical leadership
Preferred skills
Open-source OLAP database contributions, consumer-internet scale platform operations
Technologies
StarRocks, Apache Druid, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Kubernetes, Terraform, Java, Go, C++, Scala
Responsibilities
Own and scale core OLAP platforms; Optimize query engine performance; Architect streaming ingestion pipelines; Drive OLAP data modeling best practices; Manage cluster infrastructure & capacity; Advance autonomous interfaces with AI/ML
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with technical leadership
