Data Engineering at Roblox
Roles, Comp & Culture
An L5 senior data engineer at Roblox sits around $515K total comp from 21 verified salary datapoints. The primary Data Engineering tech consists of AWS, Presto and Spark, according to current job listings. Roblox pays data engineers above other Technology companies. Reviews put them at 3.8 on Glassdoor, a little above the middle of the pack. Employee sentiment at Roblox reads neutral and employee happiness is trending down over the past year. Layoff risk scores low for the next 30 days. 7 data engineering roles are open right now.
Roblox data engineer compensation
Each level's figure is the median of individual Roblox offers at that level, so it reflects a typical outcome rather than an average pulled up by a few large packages. Total comp counts base salary plus equity and bonus annualized over the vest, and the range shown is the middle half of offers, with the top and bottom quarters trimmed off.
Roblox employee sentiment, tracked weekly
Employee happiness for data engineers over the past year, so you can see which direction it is moving, not just where it sits today.
Recent Roblox events
Layoffs, leadership changes, and other major moves at the company, with dates.
- Exec departureMar 2026Leadership change
- Exec departureMar 2026Leadership change
- Exec departureSep 2025Leadership change
- Exec departureJul 2025Leadership change
- Exec departureJul 2025Leadership change
- Exec departureJun 2025Leadership change
Notable company events we track, with dates.
Roblox data engineering tech stack
The languages, storage, and processing tools Roblox data engineers actually work with, grouped by what they do. Tailor your system-design answers to this stack.
SQLRoblox data engineer job openings
A live read on what they are hiring: open roles, recent postings, where, and at what level.
Drive cross-functional engagement and lead technical initiatives to ensure the widespread adoption and success of our core safety applications.
Design, build, and maintain efficient and reliable batch and streaming data pipelines to model business entities as core data sets
Architect and deliver a high-performance analytics environment that serves thousands of queries daily
Define Multi-Year Technical Strategy: Own and drive the end-to-end architectural vision for Roblox's core data platforms spanning Kafka, Flink, Spark, Trino, Druid, Airflow, and Data Catalog systems.
Build and improve the data pipelines, datasets, and internal tools that power decision-making across Roblox
Practice for the Roblox loop
Round by round, the problems our model predicts for this company's interview. Rehearse the shapes their panels keep returning to.
Preparing for the Roblox loop
The round-by-round process, example questions, and prep plan are on the interview guide.
Compare Roblox with other data engineering employers
How the role, pay, and loop stack up against peer companies.
Prepare at Roblox interview difficulty
- 01
Reading a solution is not the same as writing one
Every engineer who has frozen on a query they had read a dozen times knows the gap. The only preparation that closes it is producing the answer yourself, under time, before the interview does it for you
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76% of hiring managers reject on the coding task, not the resume
From HackerRank's 2024 Developer Skills Report. Candidates who look strong on paper still fail the live screen if they haven't done timed, executable practice
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5 problem shapes cover 80% of data engineer loops
Dedup, sessionization, top-N-per-group, slowly-changing dimensions, partition tricks. Writing the shapes by hand turns the unfamiliar into pattern recognition