Principal Fullstack Engineer User Safety
Principal Fullstack Engineer User Safety
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WHY SAFETY
At Roblox we strive to connect a billion people with optimism and civility and the Safety organizations 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 cover a broad area of the tech spectrum including machine learning classifiers for 3D models experimentation automation detection workflows and AIpowered 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 User Safety
As a Principal Software Engineer on the User Safety Team you will architect implement and grow the systems that enable identification of abuse on Roblox. You will guide the team in 10xing our scale increasing our platform capabilities and reducing the time it takes to safeguard the users by several orders of magnitude. Your work will be fundamental in keeping the experiences of over 300 million monthly active users at Roblox safe civil and delightful. In this role you will report to the Director of Engineering.
You Will:
- Build large distributed services and tools used by other teams to detect and address problematic content on Roblox. These systems will involve high availability security (authentication and access control) data integrity and both automated and human workflows
- Build the services and tools responsible for improving accuracy and efficiency of finding inappropriate content
- Define the platform features used by teams across the company which will keep our community safe
- Resolve a variety of performance issues (networking data compute)
- Establish nextgeneration standards on the backend web and service stack
You Have:
- 8 years of experience building REST or GraphQLbased APIs with compiled languages such as Go Python C# or Java
- Proficiency in working with DynamoDB Cassandra CockroachDB MySQL PostgreSQL Microsoft SQL Server or other database technology at scale
- Experience building data pipelines with Kafka Hive Presto Spark or other data warehousing technologies
- Experience building caching solutions using Memcached Redis or similar technologies
- Experience shipping production web apps using a JavaScript framework such as React AngularJS or Vue.js and proficiency with tools such as NPM grunt gulp karma or similar
- Familiar with common web application security issues
- Equivalent experience or BA/BS in Computer Science Applied Math Physics Engineering or another technical field
You Are:
- A Technical Leader: You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical solutions. Your technical expertise influences product direction
- Versatile: You are proficient in several programming languages and technologies. You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems
- Analytical: Excited to investigate large ambiguous problems and quantify the problems and the solutions
- Teamoriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full Time
