Summary

As a Principal Software Engineer on the User Safety team, you will be responsible for driving a large greenfield zero-to-one problem space, leading several strong mid-level to senior engineers. You will collaborate closely with product managers while building large scale backend systems for behavioral interventions and consequences, user messaging, and transparency. You will be a core part of applying UX research and behavioral science to reduce long-term recidivism and make Roblox a safe platform for all users. You will work on services with substantial scaling needs in the critical path of many critical user journeys, and you will feel a true sense of ownership and responsibility in thoughtfully and fairly protecting our users, while carefully balancing freedom and civility.

You Will:

1. Build large-scale distributed services for delivering interventions and consequences to users, including warnings, nudges, timeouts, account bans, and messaging, along with propagating these interventions to alt accounts.
2. Work on a large zero-to-one effort to reimagine safety messaging, transparency, and reform in Roblox’s moderation.
3. Help shape the team’s roadmap and technical foundations towards keeping users on Roblox safe
4. Work with a tightly-knit, high-performing, diverse, and energetic cross-functional product engineering team with a strong sense of camaraderie.
5. Mentor junior engineers to develop their skills and abilities as a tech lead

You Have:

1. 8+ years of experience with large scale infrastructure and distributed systems
2. Strong ability to thrive in an ambiguous problem space
3. Proven ability to work closely with cross-functional partners (product, design, data, research) to drive clear business impact
4. Strong ability to establish clear success metrics, and create a roadmap to drive that metric
5. Desire to mentor and grow other engineers
6. Extensive experience in a modern programming language such as Golang or C#
7. Experience with modern microservice architectures
8. Experience (or at least strong interest) in the Trust & Safety domain
9. An ownership and growth mindset

You Are:

1. An owner: You take responsibility for not just your own work, but the work of your teammates, and ensuring that our users are safe on Roblox.
2. A learner: You are constantly seeking knowledge to grow yourself and your impact.
3. Independent: You require little guidance and are generally able to figure out what to do yourself.
4. Collaborative,: You are able to effectively work with cross-functional partners (UXD, UXR, DSA, PM) and engineering peers.
5. Empathetic to the needs and motivations of our users and creators - not just those who are exposed to violative content, but also those who are responsible for the abuse.

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

Skills

• Communications Skills
• Development
• Software Architecture
• Software Engineering
• Team Collaboration