Senior Data Scientist, Engine Infra

Location: San Mateo, California, United States; onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional office presence Monday and Friday

Salary: $221,380–$263,670 USD base pay annually, plus equity and benefits for full-time employees.

Company

Roblox builds tools and platform infrastructure for user-created 3D immersive digital experiences.

What you will do

• Own metrics, telemetry logging, and validation for the RCC game-server fleet and edge compute infrastructure.
• Establish KPIs for server efficiency, reliability, crashes, memory usage, occupancy, multiplexing, and latency-driven player experience.
• Process large-scale engine telemetry and build analytics pipelines, dashboards, and operating views for fleet optimization.
• Design channel tests, hardware A/B tests, and causal analyses for multiplexing, ARM64 bursting, regional capacity, and edge latency.
• Partner with Engine Infra, Game Engine, Networking, Matchmaking, Infrastructure, Product, TPM, Creator Analytics, and Growth teams.
• Use data to improve fleet efficiency, regional capacity, edge latency, and the scalability of live experiences.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field focused on large-scale system analysis.
• At least 4 years of experience as a Data Scientist.
• Experience working with high-volume telemetry and optimizing product quality.
• Expertise processing massive, noisy datasets such as crash logs and telemetry pings and building scalable reporting pipelines.
• Ability to debug complex, ambiguous system failures using first-principles reasoning.
• Experience presenting technical results to engineering leaders and using data storytelling to prioritize investment.

Nice to have

• Experience with game engines or systems performance.
• Background in game development or real-time interactive systems.
• Knowledge or interest in memory management, operating-system interactions, or network-stack optimization.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid office schedule for roles based at the San Mateo headquarters.
• Equity compensation and employee benefits for full-time employees.
• Work focused on safer, more civil, and scalable shared digital experiences.
• Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodations during the recruiting process.