2 months ago
San Mateo, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$243k - $295k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end technical lifecycle and architecture of complex full-stack safety labeling and investigative systems.
- Translate ambiguous operational and product needs into scalable architectures while managing technical debt and platformization goals.
- Define the architectural direction for safety applications and integrate LLMs and agentic workflows into moderation solutions.
- Build shared moderation primitives covering compliance infrastructure, quality assurance, traffic routing, workforce management, and agentic AI labeling.
- Create self-service onboarding pathways for external integrator teams and new safety surfaces.
- Lead cross-organizational, multi-quarter technical initiatives, resolving dependencies and blockers to drive adoption.
- Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, establish engineering best practices, and partner with leadership on technical priorities.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software development experience.
- Proven ability to design and implement robust, high-throughput distributed systems and microservices handling thousands of requests per second.
- Experience as a full-stack engineer developing complex, production-grade systems across front-end and back-end technologies.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, or another technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Strong commitment to user safety, data integrity, and compliance with safety policies.
- Ability to instrument and analyze user interaction data, usage metrics, and A/B testing results to guide product and design decisions.
- Proficiency across multiple programming languages, frameworks, databases, and cloud platforms, including modern React, Golang, and Python.
- Ability to mentor peers, lead technical work across team boundaries, and drive engineering excellence.
- Interest in building AI-centric solutions using machine learning and agentic AI capabilities.
Benefits
- Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and benefits.
- Office-based roles are onsite Tuesday through Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday.
- The role is based at Roblox headquarters in San Mateo, California, for the stated salary range.
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About Roblox
Roblox builds a platform for user‑generated 3D experiences, offering Roblox Studio for creators and a social marketplace where players explore and interact across devices. Its business model centers on virtual currency (Robux) and subscriptions, platform fees paid to creators, and an expanding advertising offering. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Roblox Corporation is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker RBLX.