Engineering Manager - Bot Defense

1 Month ago • 7-7 Years • Software Development & Engineering • $289,460 PA - $338,270 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Roblox is seeking an Engineering Manager for Bot Defense to lead the development of their next-generation bot defense platform and advanced machine learning techniques. The role involves defining the team's roadmap and long-term strategy for best-in-class bot defense. Responsibilities include building real-time and offline data pipelines and ML models for detecting and mitigating evolving bot behavior, designing scalable systems and APIs, empowering innovation through creative solutions, and mentoring team members to foster career growth. The ideal candidate will have experience in large-scale software development, ML systems, and ideally in anti-fraud or trust & safety, with strong mathematical and statistical skills.
Must have:
  • Minimum 3 years people management experience
  • 7+ years large-scale software development
  • 7+ years building large-scale ML systems
  • Strong mathematical/statistical methods
  • Proficiency in compiled and scripting languages
  • Collaboration skills
Good to have:
  • Experience in anti-fraud, anti-abuse, or trust & safety

Job Details

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. 

At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 

A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

WHY SAFETY?
At Roblox, we strive to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and the Safety organization’s mission is to become the leader in civil immersive online communities. We systematically detect, remove, and prevent problematic accounts, content and behavior, and we make Roblox accounts secure and free from compromise. We cover a broad area of the tech spectrum, including machine learning, classifiers for 3D models, experimentation, automation, detection workflows, and AI-powered text filters. Aligned and partnering with product teams, we use this toolbelt to discover new opportunities, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build safety products, and measure the impact on our community of users and developers. In doing so, we keep Roblox safe, civil, and inclusive, and we foster positive relationships between people around the world.

WHY Bot Defense?
At Roblox, we believe that Safety and Civility are fundamental to fostering a vibrant, creative community. The bot defense pod within the Account identity team has a mission to keep Roblox secure from sophisticated bot attacks and bad actors. We apply advanced ML techniques for detection and scaled distributed systems to challenge and  mitigate malicious bot activity in near real-time across all Roblox surfaces. You will help improve the Roblox experience by combating bad actors on the platform. If you are passionate about solving hard problems in the adversarial space using innovative solutions in a scalable and high impact platform, then this is the team for you. 

You will be leading the vision for Roblox’s bot defense building our next-generation bot defense platform and innovative ML techniques.

You Will:

  • Help define team’s roadmap and long term strategy to have best-in-class bot defense strategy
  • Build real time and offline data pipelines and ML models for detection and mitigation for evolving bot behavior
  • Design highly scalable and reliable systems and APIs used by every team at Roblox
  • Empower innovation by pushing your team to discover creative and pragmatic solutions to the problem areas you've defined
  • Scale your team's impact by mentoring them individually to grow in their careers as well bringing in top talent

You Have:

  • Equivalent experience or a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related field, with a minimum of 3+ years of people management experience 
  • 7+ years of hands-on experience in large-scale software development with experience delivering highly performant solutions.
  • 7+ years of experience building large-scale ML systems at consumer-facing company
  • Experience in anti-fraud, anti-abuse, anti-cheat, trust & safety, or risk is a plus.
  • Strong mathematical, statistical methods experience
  • Programming experience in one compiled (C++, C#, Java) and one interpreted script language (JS, PHP, Python, Lua, etc)
  • Collaboration skills across multiple teams and disciplines

You Are:

  • A Technical Leader: You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical solutions. Your technical expertise influences product direction. You foster a culture of technical excellence.
  • Versatile: You're a jack of all trades and you are comfortable with several languages and technologies already; you are adaptable in any situation. You are resourceful, and take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems.
  • Data-Literate: Schema design, telemetry, batch and streaming frameworks at scale. You understand the challenges of keeping data both intuitive to use and trustworthy.
  • User Oriented: You always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers before architecting a solution.
  • Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger.

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.

Annual Salary Range
$289,460$338,270 USD

Roles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations for all candidates during the interview process.

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