3 months ago
San Mateo, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$295k - $345k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as hands-on tech lead for a group of Safety Foundation engineers, setting technical direction and driving execution.
- Design and implement a scalable, cost-efficient platform engineered for 10x traffic growth.
- Architect agentic and ML-integrated safety workflows with production-grade security, auditability, and reliability.
- Build developer experience capabilities that let product teams integrate safety features in hours rather than months.
- Partner with Trust & Safety ML, User Safety, Safety Operations, and product teams on durable infrastructure.
- Define backend standards and patterns through code reviews, architecture guidance, and mentorship.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across networking, data, and compute at scale.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building large-scale backend or distributed systems and shipping production-quality systems.
- 4+ years acting as a tech lead, including setting direction, driving execution, and growing engineers at multiple levels.
- Deep proficiency in Go or a similar compiled language, with Go strongly preferred.
- Experience with NoSQL databases at scale, such as DynamoDB or Cassandra.
- Experience with or strong interest in AI/ML platform integration, including pipelines, agentic workflows, or human-in-the-loop workflows.
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience building developer platforms is strongly preferred.
- Experience with CQRS and Event Sourcing is a plus.
Benefits
- Equity compensation and employee benefits for full-time employees.
- Office-based roles are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday.
- Equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations are provided.
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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.