Senior Engineering Manager, Safety Platform

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 were 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. Were 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 youll 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 worlds largest platforms.

You Will:

• Lead and Develop: Recruit hire mentor and inspire a diverse team of exceptional engineers. Cultivate a collaborative and inclusive environment that promotes professional growth.
• Ensure Technical Excellence: Establish and maintain rigorous standards for technical quality. Ensure the team delivers reliable scalable and secure solutions in adherence to Robloxs engineering principles.
• Foster Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product managers designers and other key stakeholders to comprehend business objectives and translate them into robust technical solutions.
• Contribute to Strategy: Participate in the development of the overall capture and sharing strategy. Identify opportunities for innovation and expansion and strategically prioritize projects that maximize value for our user base.
• Champion Continuous Improvement: Instill a culture of ongoing learning and improvement within the team. Encourage experimentation knowledge dissemination and the adoption of new technologies.

You Have:

• Demonstrated experience as a leader of successful engineering teams responsible for building new product or platform features.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities to deconstruct complex challenges into manageable components coupled with the requisite project management skills to drive projects to successful completion.
• A long-term strategic perspective balanced with the practical ability to implement timely short-term solutions to launch systems and gather user feedback informing superior long-term planning.
• Experience developing consumer-facing applications supported by a strong platform-thinking mindset.