infrastructure
Posted 6 hours agoSenior Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure, Safety
at roblox
San Mateo United States, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Define the architectural direction for scaling Safety Data Infra.
- Drive cross-functional engagement and lead technical initiatives to ensure the widespread adoption and success of our core safety applications.
Requirements
- 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.
- 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.
- As a member of the Account Infra Team, you will have a rare opportunity to sit at the convergence of ML infrastructure, data engineering, and high scalability engineering all while getting to learn Rust. You Will:
- Engage in close collaboration with partner teams in Content Safety, Safety Experience, Accounts, ML Foundations and Roblox database platform teams.
- experience in software development.
- Distributed Systems Architecture: Proven ability to design and implement robust, high-throughput microservices (handling thousands of requests per second) while maintaining a strict focus on system safety and security.
- Backend Proficiency:
- Experience with non-relational datastores and large scale systems.
- experience or a BS in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, or another technical field.
- experience as a full-stack engineer, proficient in back-end development, working on complex, production-grade systems end-to-end.
- Analytical & Data-Driven: You possess a strong ability to instrument, collect, and analyze user interaction data (e.g., A/B testing, usage metrics) to inform design decisions and continuously maximize user impact and product performance.
- Comfort working with agents. Roblox as a whole is also currently revamping our development flows to incorporate AI wherever possible.
- Versatile & Adaptable: We write and review code primarily in Rust with some adjacent systems in Go, C#, C++ and Python.
- AI native: You are eager to define and build AI-centric solutions, incorporating modern machine learning and agentic AI capabilities directly into the core user
Experience
- Experienced (4+ years): You have extensive
Benefits
- Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device.
- 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
- Annual Salary Range $196,750 — $243,290 USD
- For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
Additional 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
- We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.
- 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.
- 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.
- To pro-actively find bad actors and protect good users, Roblox needs to ingest enormous amounts of data and make it usable both to our automated detection systems and for human moderators and customer support agents doing investigations.
- The Safety Data Infrastructure team is addressing these needs within Safety.
- We are building a high availability real time multi-model datastore consisting of screenshots, chats, voice communication and more.