Senior Data Engineer, Growth Acquisition (Growth & Marketing Data)

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

Salary: $243,290–$295,250 USD annually

Company

Roblox builds a platform for creating and experiencing immersive 3D digital environments and connects a global community of developers, creators, and users.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate reliable batch and streaming pipelines combining paid, owned, and organic marketing data with in-platform user behavior.
• Build documented, versioned datasets and backfills for Marketing Mix Modeling, attribution, funnel analytics, and retention analysis.
• Partner with Marketing, Data Science, and Product to define trusted acquisition, activation, retention, reactivation, and LTV metrics.
• Architect event taxonomies, logging standards, data models, and instrumentation across product surfaces.
• Integrate advertising platforms, mobile measurement partners, and third-party sources while maintaining data quality, freshness, identity resolution, and privacy-safe design.
• Support experimentation and incrementality analysis, establish observability and documentation standards, and mentor other engineers.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a data engineer or data-focused software engineer building scalable batch and streaming pipelines.
• Strong SQL and Python skills, with experience in PySpark or Scala.
• Experience with Airflow, Dagster, Spark, Flink, Kafka, or similar technologies and multi-terabyte datasets.
• Strong data modeling skills and experience creating dimensional or event-based models.
• Experience partnering with business and data science stakeholders to build durable data products from ambiguous requirements.
• Experience with a major cloud platform, modern warehouse or lakehouse technologies, code review, CI/CD, testing, and monitoring.

Nice to have

• Experience with Marketing Mix Modeling, attribution, incrementality, or experimentation platforms.
• Experience with advertising APIs, mobile measurement partners, CRM or lifecycle tooling, and identity resolution.
• Knowledge of consent, aggregation, clean rooms, differential privacy, or other privacy constraints in measurement.
• Experience with consumer products focused on growth, advertising, personalization, or lifecycle engagement.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborate across Data Engineering, Data Infrastructure, ML Platform, Marketing, Data Science, and Product.
• Contribute to privacy, safety, and community-focused measurement practices.
• Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and benefits.
• Roblox provides equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations during the recruiting process.