Senior Software Engineer, Safety Foundation
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Job Location:
San Mateo, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
15 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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 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 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 Mindsetother 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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Databases
- Embedded Software
- IDS
- System Design
- C/C++
- Military Experience
- Risk Analysis
- Systems Engineering
- Waterfall
- Requirements Management
- OSHA
- EHS
About Company
Roblox is the ultimate virtual universe that lets you create, share experiences with friends, and be anything you can imagine. Join millions of people and discover an infinite variety of immersive experiences created by a global community!
