Senior Software Engineer - Account Identity

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 toolbelt 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 ACCOUNT IDENTITY?

At Roblox, we believe that Safety and Civility are fundamental to fostering a vibrant, creative community. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Account Identity team, you'll play a critical role in safeguarding this vision. You'll be at the forefront of building our next-generation access management platform, driven by a scalable and intelligent rules engine.

This platform dynamically interprets user identity signals, enabling us to deliver a consistently safe, compliant, and age-appropriate experience. Your expertise will shape a system that's not only robust and reliable but also intuitive and user-friendly for our internal teams, policy writers, and content creators, aided by collaboration across teams to understand their unique access needs.

You Will:

• Develop the next gen unified access management platform - secure, accessible and reliable
• Design and build backend services across large distributed systems
• Manage end-to-end solutions from creation to deployment
• Help establish next-generation standards on the backend stack for the team
• Work with ML counterparts to build Identity attribute estimation models.

You Have:

• 4+ years of experience building highly-available and large-scale distributed backend services
• 4+ years of experience building and shipping products to production
• 4+ years of experience working on multi-person codebases, including open-source or personal projects
• Expertise in compiled languages such as C#, .net or Java.
• Familiarity with data pipelines and ETL
• Interest and motivation for user identity and platform safety
• Customer first approach and excellent cross team collaboration skills

You Are:

• Versatile: You are proficient in several programming languages and technologies. You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems
• An Owner: You can balance contributions to multiple projects
• A Fast Learner: You can ramp up quickly, which is necessary to understand and tackle problems
• Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger

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.

Annual Salary Range$218,540—$283,780 USD

Roles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

You’ll Love:

• Industry-leading compensation package
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• A rewarding 401k program
• Flexible vacation policy (varies by exemption status)
• Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
• Roblox Admin badge for your avatar

• At Roblox HQ:

  • Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
  • Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
  • Annual CalTrain Go Pass

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 for all candidates during the interview process.