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Senior Software Engineer - Data Acquisition
Roblox Corporation · 🇺🇸 San Mateo, CA, United States
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 197 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 48 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Roblox Corporation paid sponsored hires in similar roles122 certified filings for “Senior Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $227k–$295k, median $243k. Most were filed at wage level IV (41%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Roblox Corporation
The US Department of Labor certified 197 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 48 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. We are seeking a senior software engineer to join our new Data Intake team. Our team owns the tooling that sources and processes the training data that Roblox’s future foundation models are built on. As an engineer on the team, you’ll build out a new service that can obtain diverse datasets from a wide variety of external sources, process them into consistent formats, and store them in a reliable and easily accessible location for our models to leverage. You’ll collaborate closely with teammates across the company in data labeling and machine learning to ensure we deliver the datasets our customers need. This role offers the chance to be a founding team member and help define both the technical direction and the long-term shape of the product area from the ground up. This role is a great fit for you if you enjoy building and iterating quickly on new internal product offerings, are proficient in designing and scaling robust API integrations and data infrastructure, and have a zeal for developing inspiring, easily maintainable, and reusable code. Join our team and make a significant impact at Roblox. You Will: • Architect and deliver a high-performance analytics environment that serves thousands of queries daily • Design and scale robust data infrastructure for powering data retrieval and visualization • Ensure data systems are reliable, observable, privacy-compliant, and performant • Bridge the gap between data engineering, analytics, and infrastructure to deliver a suite of best-in class, fully featured, and easy to use data tools. • Build intelligent agentic automation to simplify and accelerate analytical workflows • Contribute to internal platforms and tools that abstract complexity, improve developer productivity, and accelerate innovation • Be a tech lead and mentor junior engineers • Self-organize and take ownership of projects throughout their full lifecycle You Have: • 5+ years of work experience building production-grade, scalable, and reliable data systems; B.S. equivalent in CS or sufficient experience. • AWS infra understanding (VPC, endpoints, private link, Terraform, Amazon EKS) • Infra networking (k8s ingress, load balancers, and VPC networking) • Data infra understanding (Trino/Spark system configuration) • Strong SQL and distributed engine knowledge • Python and notebook data stack (e.g. pandas, ibis) • Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills; enjoy building systems that enable and accelerate team productivity For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity comp