Senior Data Scientist, Safety

2 Months ago • 8 Years + • Data Analysis • $258,500 PA - $316,480 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Roblox is seeking a Senior Data Scientist, Safety to join their Trust & Safety organization, specifically the Education & Reform team. This role focuses on making the platform safer by developing consequence engines, reforming user behavior, and utilizing behavioral science and data science. The Data Science & Analytics organization aims to improve decision-making by fostering a data-influenced approach to product building. The Senior Data Scientist will design processes and data pipelines, measure product performance, develop insights for product and process improvements, collaborate with leaders to refine policies and best practices, design and run experiments to optimize user behavior and internal processes, and develop models for automating decisions like reputation scoring and forecasting. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in data science, big data processing, and working in Trust & Safety, with strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.
Must have:
  • 8+ years of industry experience in data science/analytics
  • 5+ years using SQL, Hive, or Spark for data manipulation
  • 5+ years in Trust & Safety or related fields
  • Proven ability to lead projects individually
  • Exceptional communication and collaboration skills
  • Experience with cross-functional partners up to C-suite
  • Advanced degree in a technical field

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 DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS?

The Data Science & Analytics organization’s mission is to increase our speed, frequency and acumen of making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling and machine learning. We partner with product verticals and use this extensive tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products, and measure impact on our community of players and developers.

WHY TRUST & SAFETY?

Scaling the ability to keep our users safe amidst rapid growth is critically important at Roblox. This role is a key contributor within the Education & Reform team, which is part of our larger Trust & Safety organization. This team is focused on making it easy for users to report bad behavior and developing our consequence engine, which determines how to respond to policy violations based on factors like past behavior, likelihood of repeat offenses, and the severity of the infraction. You’ll also be involved in projects around reforming and encouraging positive user behavior and using behavioral science and data science to make our platform safer for everyone. To succeed, you’ll need a strong background in product data science, statistics, and measurement, as well as excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills to work effectively with teams across the company.

You Will:

  • Design fundamental processes and data pipelines and curate north star metrics to track and measure the state and performance of our product and teams.
  • Develop insights through analytics around improvements we can make in our products and processes to help build a safer platform and enable greater efficiency.
  • Work with product, engineering, and operations leaders to highlight improvements to policy and design new sets of best practices.
  • Design and run experiments to optimize safe user behavior on the platform and ensure greater efficiency in our internal processes.
  • Develop models to automate decisions in support of our goals, including reputation scoring, consequencing, and forecasting.

You Have:

  • 8+ years of industry experience in data science and/or data analytics
  • 5+ years of experience using big data query/processing languages such as SQL, Hive or Spark to transform/manipulate very large datasets
  • 5+ years of experience in working in Trust & Safety, integrity, or a related field
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and build project areas from scratch as an individual contributor
  • Exceptional communication and collaboration skills
  • Extensive experience working with a wide range of cross-functional partners, including policy, legal, finance, product, and engineering, all the way up to VP/C-suite leadership.
  • An advanced Degree in Operations Research, Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Behavioral Science, or other technical fields.

You Are:

  • Highly self-driven. You are perpetually curious and consistently strive to improve your skills by learning the latest statistical techniques and data tools. You thrive with freedom and autonomy and are excited by the ambiguity that comes from exploring a new problem space.
  • A strong communicator. You are excited by presenting your analysis to a wide range of audiences and enjoy engaging in spirited discussions about the findings. You have the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences and discuss appropriate tradeoffs, and you enjoy working with senior leadership and striving for alignment.
  • Motivated by impact. You find great satisfaction in being able to point to direct contributions you’ve made to an organization. You recognize the inherent tradeoffs between further research/experimentation and productionization, and you apply the appropriate methodology to maximize impact in a pragmatic fashion.
  • An expert transforming data with SQL and a scripting language such as Python or R. You’re experienced in automating efforts and crunching massive volumes of data in distributed systems using frameworks such as Spark, Hadoop or Flink.

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
$258,500$316,480 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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