Base Salary
$326k - $385k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead company-wide security initiatives addressing critical security challenges.
- Build cross-company relationships and partnerships with engineering teams to achieve security objectives.
- Provide guidance on product security processes, standards, and Trust-by-Design practices.
- Identify threats and vulnerabilities and develop solutions to safeguard systems and data.
- Define and scale application and product security automation and practices.
- Design and secure autonomous agentic workflows and enable safe AI adoption at scale.
- Perform application code testing using the OWASP Testing Methodology.
- Research technologies that improve the company’s security posture.
- Contribute to security education and awareness programs.
- Mentor and guide other security engineers.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional cybersecurity experience with a deep background in application security, data encryption, security standards, network security, and cloud security.
- Experience with software and infrastructure architecture focused on security and with common code and network vulnerabilities, impacts, and remediation.
- Ability to write code in at least one programming language such as Python, Golang, or C#, plus scripting experience such as Bash or Python.
- Applied knowledge of cryptography, PKI, TLS, and practical implementations.
- Experience with threat modeling, Secure Software Development Lifecycles, and operationalizing security practices in large-scale internet environments.
- Familiarity with network and server hardware, Linux security, and Windows security.
- Familiarity with secure AI-agent deployment patterns, including sandboxing, microVMs, secrets protection, and audit/logging for agent capabilities.
- Ability to explain complex security challenges to technical and non-technical leadership and influence principal engineers across teams.
- Collaborative, team-oriented approach and commitment to sustainable long-term security improvements.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $326,060–$385,050 USD for roles based at Roblox headquarters in San Mateo, California; equity compensation and employee benefits are also available.
- Office-based roles are onsite Tuesday through Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday unless otherwise noted.
- Roblox provides reasonable accommodations during the recruiting process for qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs.
About Roblox
Roblox's vision is to reimagine the way people come together. Our mission is to connect a billion people with optimism and civility. What is Roblox? Roblox is a platform where people come together virtually to share experiences. Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to Roblox to learn, work, play, connect, communicate, and socialize in immersive digital experiences all built by a global community of creators. Powered by Creators Roblox is powered by a global community of millions of developers and creators who produce their own immersive multiplayer experiences each month using Roblox Studio, our intuitive desktop design tool. Any experience imaginable can be created on Roblox. How Popular? Roblox is ranked as one of the top entertainment platforms for audiences under the age of 18 based on average monthly visits and time spent (Comscore). Our popularity is driven purely by the community with millions of people signing up through word of mouth every month.