Senior Software Engineer, Safety Foundation
at Roblox
San Mateo, United States
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.
WHY SAFETY?
At Roblox, we strive to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and the Safety organization's mission is to become the leader in civil immersive online communities. We systematically and proactively detect, remove, and prevent problematic content and behavior, and we make Roblox accounts secure and free from compromise. We also keep the platform compliant for changing regulations and growth markets. We cover a broad area of the tech spectrum, including machine learning, experimentation, automation, highly scalable distributed backend systems, detection workflows, and AI-powered text filters. Aligned and partnering with product teams, we use this tool belt to discover new opportunities, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build safety products, and measure the impact on our community of users and developers. In doing so, we keep Roblox safe, civil, and inclusive, and we foster positive relationships between people around the world.
WHY Safety Foundation ?
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Safety Foundation Team, you will architect, implement, and grow the systems that enable the moderation of all content and interactions on Roblox. You will be a core part of a team that is 10x-ing our scale, increasing our platform capabilities, and reducing the time it takes any creator or team at Roblox to safeguard their feature or experience by several orders of magnitude (months to hours). Your work will be foundational in keeping the experiences of over 300 million monthly active users at Roblox safe, civil, and delightful.
You Will:
- Build large-scale distributed services and tools used by other teams to detect and address problematic content on Roblox. These systems require high usability, availability, security (authentication and access control), and data integrity. We are building the AWS for Safety.
- Work directly with other teams at Roblox to define and maintain their integration into the Roblox Safety Platform, using Safety best practices, standards and guardrails. Our vision is to support Creation Anywhere, while keeping Roblox safe and civil for our community.
- Work on the core of parts of our Moderation Platform by designing high-scale, event-driven workflow systems, advanced investigative tooling, and intelligent 'Agentic' workers. Your work will drive massive improvements in platform integration, automation, and auditability for partner teams across Roblox.
- Manage end-to-end solutions from creation to deployment – including implementation, testing, deployment and observability
- Help evolve our moderation infrastructure to meet new safety and compliance requirements
- Work with a tightly-knit, high-performing, diverse, and energetic cross-functional product engineering team with a strong sense of camaraderie.
You Have:
- 5+ years of experience with scalable infrastructure and distributed systems
- 5+ years of experience in Golang/C++/C#/Java/etc.
- Experience with Automation at scale (eg ML, but not an ML engineer)
- Experience with internal cross-functional product/customer support (ie a "Platform Mindset"—other teams at the company are your customer)
- Experience with Automation at scale (Preferred)
- Interest with Safety systems
You Are:
- An advocate: for Engineering Excellence committed to benchmarks, clean code, and efficient systems.
- A Collaborative Learner: constantly seeking knowledge and sharing insights with your team.
- A Joint Owner: trusting in teamwork and valuing collective achievements.
- Visionary: planning for the future and focusing on long-term solutions.
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 compensation and for benefits as described on this page.
Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.