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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $195.8K/yr

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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. The Consumer App Foundation team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to improve Roblox performance across our supported platforms. Our platform is used by over 150M people daily. You will work primarily in cross-platform C++ Roblox game engine code, partnering with teams across the company to identify bottlenecks, ship measurable improvements, and prevent regressions over time. Our team is responsible for the end-to-end performance of the Roblox client on Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Xbox, Playstation and TV. We tackle the platform’s most difficult technical constraints, ranging from speed and responsiveness to efficiency and stability, to ensure a high-performance experience across all of our devices and platforms. You will: Own the end-to-end performance of the Roblox client across all platforms directly moving the needle on our key metrics: TTI, app size, battery usage and more. Build the benchmarking, profiling, and telemetry systems required to catch regressions early and continue scaling our application even further. Collaborate closely with stakeholders across Engineering, Product, and Design to evaluate technical tradeoffs, align on company-wide priorities, and

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $243.3K/yr

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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. Roblox's Cache team is building a next-generation caching solution designed to deliver sub-millisecond average latency, horizontal scalability, and high efficiency—all at a drastically lower cost. Our ultimate vision is to shape a caching infrastructure capable of supporting 1 billion Daily Active Users while reducing costs by 90%. We are turning hours of onboarding and capacity expansion into seconds, freeing service owners entirely from managing cluster lifecycles. As a Senior Engineer on the Cache team (part of the Infra Storage org), you will innovate and operate large-scale, in-house distributed systems to solve Roblox's ever-growing caching challenges. You will report directly to the Engineering Manager for the Cache team. (Check out our recent engineering blog post here to learn more about the team's latest work!) You will: Lead the architectural transition to a next-generation, multitenant caching service built on ValKey, ensuring strict data, resource, and failure isolation for all tenants. Drive systemic optimizations to mitigate head-of-line blocking, manage hot keys, and maximize CPU and memory utilization across physical machine clusters. Design and build robust frameworks to a

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $195.8K/yr

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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. The Consumer App Foundation team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to improve Roblox performance across our supported platforms. Our platform is used by over 150M people daily. You will work primarily in cross-platform C++ Roblox game engine code, partnering with teams across the company to identify bottlenecks, ship measurable improvements, and prevent regressions over time. Our team is responsible for the end-to-end performance of the Roblox client on Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Xbox, Playstation and TV. We tackle the platform’s most difficult technical constraints, ranging from speed and responsiveness to efficiency and stability, to ensure a high-performance experience across all of our devices and platforms. You will: Own the end-to-end performance of the Roblox client across all platforms directly moving the needle on our key metrics: TTI, app size, battery usage and more. Build the benchmarking, profiling, and telemetry systems required to catch regressions early and continue scaling our application even further. Collaborate closely with stakeholders across Engineering, Product, and Design to evaluate technical tradeoffs, align on company-wide priorities, and

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $326.1K/yr

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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. As a Principal Security Software Engineer on the Production IAM team, you will set the technical direction for how identity and access work across Roblox's production infrastructure, from the mTLS-based identity that services use to authenticate to one another, to the privileged access controls that govern how engineers reach production. The team is accountable for Roblox's machine and workload identity platform, its centralized authorization engine, its production access management platform, production PKI and certificate lifecycle, and just-in-time privileged access for engineers. As an individual contributor in Production IAM, you will define multi-year strategy, drive alignment across Roblox Platform, mentor senior and staff engineers, and personally build the hardest parts of these systems. As AI agents become first-class actors in production, you will also help pioneer how they get identity, prove who they are, and receive safely-scoped access. You will Lead the architecture for production identity and access. Define and evolve the end-to-end design for machine, workload, human, and AI-agent identity across our hybrid on-prem and cloud fleet, making secure access invisible when

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $295.3K/yr

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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 Content Safety? As a Principal Machine Learning Engineer for Content Safety, you will define the future of proactive moderation, driving immense social impact through cutting-edge, innovative ML solutions, focused on critical and ambiguous safety challenges. You will set the 3-5 year technical strategy and architectural blueprint for how Roblox uses machine learning for content moderation. You will own the architectural and execution roadmap of massive-scale ML systems that mitigate violative UGC content before it impacts our community. You will feel a deep sense of responsibility in proactively protecting our community thoughtfully and fairly, while balancing user freedom with platform civility. Your efforts will ensure Roblox remains one of the safest places on the internet for our broad community of over 100 million daily active users. You will: Define and Own the Technical Vision: Define and lead the multi-year technical vision, architectural strategy, and execution for machine learning solutions in Content Safety, ensuring these systems proactively and effectively detect and mitigate violative content at massive scale. Strategic Stakeholder Partnership: Collaborate with execu

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $243.3K/yr

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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. As a Senior Backend Engineer on the User Communities team, you’ll own the backend systems that power social engagement features (Announcements, Forums, Polls, Roles & Permissions systems) for millions of players and creators on Roblox. Your day-to-day will focus on building and scaling the infrastructure that makes both in-experience and on-platform communication and player engagement fast, safe, and reliable. That means driving architectural decisions, reasoning through trade-offs, influencing stakeholders, championing user-first safety standards, and defining developer-facing APIs so creators can build richer experiences. You'll work closely with frontend and backend engineers, product, design, and data scientists across teams, and you'll have real influence over our technical and product direction. If you're an experienced engineer who gets excited about large-scale distributed systems and wants to shape the way millions of people connect inside virtual worlds, we'd love to talk. You Will: Shape the backend engineering culture across the Communities team. Your influence extends beyond your immediate pod to improve how we build, review, and ship software across the entire org. Act as

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $243.3K/yr

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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. As a Senior Software Engineer within the Creator Organization, you will develop innovative full-stack solutions that define the future of Roblox’s Content Understanding Platform. This platform processes billions of pieces of content—spanning 3D models, audio files, text, video, and entire experiences—extracting structured information about their meaning, context, and relationships. The Content Understanding Team develops cutting-edge AI models, advanced computer vision systems, and highly scalable backend platforms to power search, discovery, and moderation across Roblox. Your contributions will enable seamless asset discovery, automate moderation at scale, and drive transformative generative AI tools that reshape how millions of creators and users engage with Roblox. You Will: Solve full-stack challenges to improve how AI, creators, and users describe and get along with content, including images, 3D models, audio, text, and video. Craft and build scalable pipelines for training, evaluating, and deploying machine learning models to support content annotation and discovery. Develop robust backend systems to power real-time search, discovery, and powerful generative AI features. Blend innovat

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $196.8K/yr

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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. As a Sr. Studio Software Engineer, not only will you be one of the coolest humans on the planet; you will also be a key contributor to the evolution of Roblox Studio which is the primary IDE for making massive multiplayer online games on the Roblox platform. Who wouldn’t want to do that? Studio provides tools for 3D modeling, animation, complete SDLC and testing for teams and individual game developers. This role does not require experience in the aforementioned. Large scale desktop application experience will suffice. You’ll work on projects involving: Core user features - UI frameworks,, windowing systems, code generation “AI Native” features - building well integrated AI features into Studio Foundational application architecture, including OS integration and building our our third party plugin ecosystem. Working with UX designers for overall design language for Studio both on visual, motion, and interactive elements. Building central backend systems You will: Design and execute on the architecture and technical direction that will be the future of our application Own and deliver complex technical projects from the planning stage through execution Work cross functionally, acro

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $295.3K/yr

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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. The Engineering Acceleration team delivers a world-class development experience to our 2000+ Roblox teammates who write, build, and ship the most incredible virtual experience platform in the world. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will set the technical direction for transforming development at Roblox from its solid roots to a fully scaled, globally mature, AI-powered development, code review and CI environment. If you are passionate about engineering productivity and you've ever wanted to define — not just build — the systems that fundamentally change how an entire engineering organization operates, this is your opportunity. You Will: Own, scale, and define the long-term technical vision for Roblox's source code search, storage, review, and CI infrastructure for the next 10 years of growth. Architect software that improves the lives of your coworkers — spanning local development tools, internal web apps and microservices, reusable CI workflows, productivity metrics toolchains, and integrations across many 1st and 3rd party tools. Lead and drive major company-wide efforts improving the productivity and user experience of our Source and CI tools, setting direction across teams a

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $196.8K/yr

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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. The Game Engine team at Roblox works on the systems that power the experiences at the heart of the metaverse. Our code is the technical foundation in our client, editor, and our simulation servers. The Game Engine team is broadly split into departments — Audio-Video-Communication, Avatar, Core AI, Digital Matter, Productivity, and Systems. This position is for the Systems Runtime pod. The Runtime pod builds and maintains the foundational C++ components that power the entire Roblox engine and Studio stack. We own the runtime layer — the performance, efficiency, and usability of the core primitives that every other engineering team relies on. Think of Runtime as the “standard library” and execution engine for Roblox's C++ world. Our ownership centers on three pillars: Concurrency System — our task scheduler and fiber runtime power how work is parallelized across CPU cores, letting teams scale features across platforms while keeping code understandable and debuggable. Memory System — we own the engine's memory allocator stack, tracking pipelines, and observability tooling to make memory behavior predictable and prevent leaks and fragmentation. Profiling and Observability — we build and evolve

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $287.8K/yr

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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. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Privacy Infrastructure team, you’ll design and build large-scale systems that operate across Roblox’s platform and data ecosystem. You’ll tackle complex distributed systems challenges, develop reliable and scalable infrastructure, and work across engineering teams to deliver foundational capabilities that serve millions of users. This is an opportunity to take on high-impact technical problems at Roblox scale while helping shape the next generation of our infrastructure. You Will Design, build, and scale reliable infrastructure and platform solutions that protect user data and support the needs of a global platform. Develop foundational capabilities for emerging technologies, including agentic AI workflows, with a focus on safe and responsible data access. Partner with engineering teams across Roblox to integrate scalable data protection capabilities into their systems and development workflows Drive technical strategy and architecture for complex, cross-cutting challenges spanning data, infrastructure, privacy, and security. You Have 7+ years of proven experience as a software engineer. Expertise in Python or Golang; Strong understanding of system

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $195.8K/yr

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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. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Core UI team, you'll take the Roblox App experience to the next level - making it intuitive, reliable, and a joy to use. Our team sits at the intersection of platform engineering and product innovations. You'll work on systems and surfaces used by every Roblox user and creator in every game session. If you care deeply about how software feels - not just how it works - this is the role for you. You Will: Design, build, and own end-to-end development of user-facing features and systems across mobile, desktop, VR, and consoles. Develop robust, extensible systems powering Roblox's core surfaces (Home, Avatar, Search, and more) used by hundreds of millions of users and creators. Create scalable solutions for building high-quality, intuitive, and reliable user interfaces that elevate the overall product experience. Partner with engineering, product, and design teams to deliver cohesive, delightful user experience. You Have: 4+ years of software development experience building large-scale, user-facing applications. Strong expertise in modern frontend technologies, including frameworks like React or similar, component-based architecture, and state management pat

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $196.8K/yr

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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. What You’ll Do: As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Avatar Marketplace team, you will be building an international marketplace for millions of virtual items that users acquire to customize their avatars and identities on the Roblox platform. You will design, implement, and operate the frameworks and services you and the team build that help control the supply and demand of the Roblox economy. The team is responsible for building systems that will help content creators become more successful sellers. With over 90 million daily active users (and growing), we are looking for an experienced engineer who is passionate about designing and building scalable systems for both sides of the marketplace. The Marketplace Foundation team's focus is to provide reliable and scalable solutions for critical systems supporting both Avatar Marketplace creators and users. We aim to invent new and evolve existing core concepts to support new and future use cases in a holistic manner, such as Bundles, Limiteds, and Price Optimization. We help the creators to improve their earning while scaling Roblox's economy. The team is also responsible for ensuring 10x scalability headroom on critical Marketplace system

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $263.7K/yr

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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 DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS? The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency, and acumen of making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling, and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product verticals, we use this extensive toolbelt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products, and measure impact on our community of players and creators. WHY CREATOR PLATFORM? At Roblox, the Creator Platform team is responsible for the systems that determine how creators build, publish, earn, and thrive on the platform. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will be the primary strategic data partner across some of the most business-critical and safety-sensitive areas in the creator ecosystem — including creator reputation, publish gating, anti-abuse, rewards, data foundations, and AI enablement. This is a high-ownership, high-autonomy role. You will work across trust & safety,

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $345K/yr

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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. Senior Engineering Manager, Safety Platform You will lead engineering pods within the Safety Platform organization, driving the technical vision and execution for the foundational systems that power every safety workflow at Roblox. You will own the core safety platform end-to-end: from the shared infrastructure and APIs that enable trust & safety capabilities across the company, to the tooling ecosystem that empowers internal operators to investigate, intervene, and resolve issues at scale. The scope also includes the Safety agentic platform — AI-powered systems that automate and augment safety workflows across detection, enforcement, and review pipelines. As the platform layer beneath every safety surface, your work will define how quickly and reliably Roblox can respond to emerging threats. This role requires a leader with a strong platform mindset who can balance technical rigor with broad organizational impact — working across User Safety, Trust & Safety Policy, Data Science, and Machine Learning to deliver scalable, extensible, and high-availability systems for one of the world's largest platforms. You Will: Lead and Develop: Recruit, hire, mentor, and inspire a diverse team of

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