Principal Software Engineer, Game Safety
RobloxUser-Generated Content company
San Mateo, United States$295,250 - $345,040 USDLead
Altimeter Capital
Dragoneer Investment Group
Andreessen Horowitz
Tencent
First Round Capital
Warner Music Group
Software EngineeringNew
About the role
TL;DR
Build and scale distributed systems for game moderation at Roblox.
- •Roblox is building the tools and platform that empower its community to bring any experience they can imagine to life.
- •This role focuses on transforming experience safety efforts into a scale-oriented, near-real-time problem in an adversarial context.
- •Key Responsibilities Build and scale distributed systems for game moderation.
- •Operate as a high-agency problem solver across backend services, ML pipelines, and data.
- •Develop innovative detection approaches in a rapidly evolving, adversarial landscape.
- •Lead through technical excellence and mentorship.
- •Partner cross-functionally with Moderation Operations, Product Management, and Data Science.
- •Requirements 6+ years of experience building and shipping high-scale backend systems. 6+ years of experience working on multi-person codebases.
- •Passion for delivering products end-to-end.
Required skills
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptGoRust
Domain expertise
gaming
Benefits & perks
Equity compensation, Benefits
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptGoRust