Principal Engineer, Account Authentication

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 Authentication and Security?

The Roblox Account Authentication and Security team provides the front door for the metaverse. Across mobile, web, console, and all locales, we are responsible for onboarding Roblox players, creators and securing their sessions. When we do our job well, Roblox users will have a seamless and secure experience on Roblox. What makes Roblox unique is that our users tend to skew young and are therefore both impatient and vulnerable. This role is for someone who wants to be a technical leader in making account authentication and security child proof.

This is an excellent opportunity for a product engineer with expertise working on complex thick clients solving user authentication or account security problems to have a large scale impact. The team is product oriented and entrepreneurial with ~80% of our roadmap being sourced from within the team. As a Principal Software Engineer on Roblox’s Account Authentication team you will be responsible for collaborating with product managers, data scientists, immediate management, and executives to decompose strategic problems facing the Roblox community into smaller, more tractable, problems and subsequently craft creative, unconventional, technical solutions.

You Will:

• Collaborate cross-organizationally with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and management at all levels.
• Decompose strategic problems facing the Roblox community into smaller, more tractable problems.
• Craft creative, unconventional technical solutions that will improve the usability, security, and scalability of Roblox accounts.
• Provide technical leadership to an immediate working group of 12 ICs, helping them to implement, test, experiment and maintain strategic user facing authentication and account security features in Roblox’s thick client app.

You Have:

• 9+ years of experience developing user facing products.
• Experience landing high profile features on a cross platform project. Wherever users engage with Roblox, account authentication and security needs to work seamlessly.
• Experience developing authentication or security features on some combination of thick client development on the web, consoles, iOS, or Android.
• Proficiency with one of Lua, C++. Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, or Swift.
• Experience with internal cross-functional product/customer support.

You Are:

• A Technical Leader: You have initiated and facilitated complicated technical solutions. Your technical expertise influences product direction. You foster a culture of technical excellence.
• Expert in scalably building features that work on multiple platforms.
• Analytical: Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and quantify the problems and the solutions.
• Willing to experiment. We are a data informed team. Experiments are a crucial part of that.
• User Oriented: You always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers before architecting a solution.
• 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$283,780—$331,640 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.