3 months ago
San Mateo, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$217k - $269k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable privacy infrastructure for discovering, governing, protecting, and managing personal data.
- Develop backend services, APIs, and data pipelines that embed privacy controls into engineering workflows and fulfill user privacy rights globally.
- Analyze large-scale data systems and data flows to identify privacy risks and improve data governance and lifecycle management.
- Build monitoring, auditing, and reporting capabilities for privacy controls.
- Develop strategic approaches to data privacy and security across the platform.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer operating production systems at scale.
- Expertise in Python or Golang.
- Experience with ETL, metadata systems, or data governance solutions.
- Deep understanding of data privacy, security technologies, and data governance principles.
- Familiarity with privacy and regulatory frameworks such as GDPR and CCPA.
- Ability to collaborate with engineers, product teams, security, legal, and policy stakeholders.
Benefits
- Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and benefits.
- Office-based roles are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday.
- Headquarters-based role in San Mateo, California.],
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- The role primarily designs and builds backend privacy infrastructure, services, and data pipelines.
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- Software Engineering
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- job_description_summary_long
- This senior engineer will build foundational privacy infrastructure that enables Roblox to discover, govern, protect, and manage personal data at global scale. Responsibilities include developing backend services, APIs, and data pipelines; embedding privacy controls into engineering workflows; and supporting user privacy rights. The role also covers privacy risk analysis, data lifecycle management, monitoring, auditing, and reporting. It requires 5+ years of production software engineering experience, expertise in Python or Golang, and knowledge of data governance, security, and privacy frameworks. The position is distinctive in combining distributed systems, data platforms, security, privacy engineering, and cross-functional work with product, legal, security, and policy teams.
- job_description_summary_short
- Build scalable privacy infrastructure at Roblox that protects user data and supports global privacy obligations. You’ll work across backend systems, data platforms, security, and privacy engineering to enable safer innovation for millions of users.
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- The title contains “Senior,” and the posting requires 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- specialties
- ["Security","Backend","Data Engineering"]
- tech_stack
- ["Python","Golang"]
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.