Roblox
Senior
Own core data platform components (Kafka, Flink, Spark, Trino, Druid, Airflow) at petabyte scale
Design a Senior Software Engineer interview for Roblox's Data Infra org, where the candidate will own and scale distributed data platform frameworks processing petabytes of data daily. Focus on deep technical experience with at least one or two of Kafka, Flink, Spark, Trino, Druid, or Airflow, strong backend engineering in Java/Go/Scala, and Kubernetes-based cloud operations at scale.
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What this interview tests
- Deep expertise in 1-2 of: Kafka, Flink, Spark, Trino, Druid, Airflow
- Distributed systems design and operation at large scale
- Performance optimization: query planning, state management, memory/serialization
- Kubernetes operations on AWS/GCP
- Technical leadership and cross-team alignment
Common question themes
Describe the data platform technology you know deepest and a hard production issue you solved in it
How would you approach optimizing a query engine or streaming pipeline under heavy load
Tell me about owning the architecture of a platform component end to end
How do you align a platform roadmap with data science and product engineering needs
How have you mentored engineers or driven technical direction across teams
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