Principal Software Engineer, Orchestration

Roblox · San Mateo

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Company
Roblox
Location
San Mateo
Salary
$295,250 — $345,040
Posted
October 20, 2026

About this job

Roblox’s data platform powers analytics, ML, and product decisions for a platform serving 200M+ daily active users. As a Principal Software Engineer in the Data Platform Orchestration team, you will be the technical leader for the system that schedules and runs the company’s data workloads. Our team owns Apache Airflow and the Kubernetes (EKS) infrastructure underneath it, running 8,000+ DAGs every day, most of them Spark jobs. You will set the long-term architecture for how Roblox orchestrates data at scale, and you will be hands-on in making it faster, more reliable, and easier for hundreds of engineers to use. You Will: Define the Orchestration Strategy: Own the multi-year architecture for Airflow and the surrounding platform, including scheduler and executor design, multi-tenancy,…

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