Senior Software Engineer, Rights & Guidelines

2 Months ago • 4 Years + • Software Development & Engineering • $192,890 PA - $238,520 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Roblox is building tools and a platform to empower its community to create 3D immersive digital experiences. This role is within the Safety organization, specifically the Rights & Guidelines team, which focuses on enabling creators to responsibly introduce diverse content, manage age-appropriate experiences, and ensure compliance with global regulations. The Senior Software Engineer will contribute to the architecture and development of a high-throughput Content Policy Platform, design and maintain backend systems for age-differentiated content, build systems for regulatory compliance, and collaborate with ML engineers to productionize machine learning models for content review and policy violation detection. The role involves taking ownership of projects from concept to deployment, ensuring quality, reliability, and scalability, and shaping the future of responsible content handling at Roblox.
Must have:
  • 4+ years building large-scale distributed backend systems
  • 4+ years delivering and maintaining production software
  • Proficient in C#, Java, Go, or similar OOP languages
  • Excellent cross-team collaboration
  • Proactive in learning new technologies
Good to have:
  • Technical leadership experience
  • Versatility in languages and technologies
  • Analytical problem-solving skills
  • User-oriented approach
  • Team-oriented mindset

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 and proactively detect, remove, and prevent problematic content and behavior, and we make Roblox accounts secure and free from compromise. We also keep the platform compliant for changing regulations and growth markets. We cover a broad area of the tech spectrum, including machine learning, experimentation, automation, highly scalable distributed backend systems, detection workflows, and AI-powered text filters. Aligned and partnering with product teams, we use this tool belt 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 RIGHTS & GUIDELINES?

Join the Rights & Guidelines team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of content on Roblox. We are at the forefront of enabling creators to responsibly introduce diverse content, such as age-appropriate experiences like the 17+ experience launch, through innovative tools and systems. Our work ensures the Roblox platform remains compliant with evolving global regulations, safeguarding our diverse user base. Furthermore, you'll contribute to our Content Policy Platform, empowering teams across Roblox to add and manage content access policies that are critical to our platform's integrity and safety. This is an opportunity to build impactful solutions that directly influence the creator experience and the safety of millions of users worldwide.

You Will:

  • Contribute to the architecture and development of our Content Policy Platform, a high-throughput service handling millions of requests per second for content access decisions across the Roblox platform.
  • Design, develop, and maintain robust backend systems and tooling to support Roblox's age-differentiated content initiatives, including Content Maturity (e.g., 17+ experiences).
  • Build and scale systems that ensure Roblox's platform-wide compliance with evolving regional regulations, safeguarding our global user base.
  • Collaborate closely with ML engineers to drive the continuous productionization and improvement of machine learning models that automatically review Content Maturity questionnaires and detect other regional policy violations at scale across millions of experiences.
  • Take ownership of projects from concept to deployment, ensuring high quality, reliability, and scalability.
  • Help shape the future of responsible content handling on a massive scale, directly impacting millions of creators and users.

You Have:

  • 4+ years building highly available, large-scale distributed backend systems.
  • 4+ years delivering and maintaining production software for large-scale applications.
  • Proficient in C#, Java, Go, or similar OOP languages with strong design principles.
  • Excellent cross-team collaborator with a drive to complete projects.
  • Curious and proactive in learning new technologies and growing technical skills.

You Are:

  • A Technical Leader: You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical solutions. Your technical expertise influences product direction. You nurture a culture of technical excellence.
  • Versatile: You're a generalist 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.
  • Analytical: Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and quantify the problems and the solutions.
  • 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
$192,890$238,520 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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