Principal Detection and Response Engineer, Roblox
$295.3-345k
+ Equity
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Online gaming and entertainment platform
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Online gaming and entertainment platform
1001+ employees
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$295.3-345k
+ Equity
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect a billion people with optimism and civility.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in Detection and/or Response: with a passion for security engineering, threat detection, threat hunting, and incident management
- 4+ years of Security Data Engineering experience with streaming pipelines: You’ve built production grade ETL data processing pipelines end to end using Kafka / PubSub, Spark / Flink, Athena / BigQuery or similar
- Software Development (SWE): Mastery building efficient, reliable, CI/CD deployed, scalable systems using programming languages like C, Golang or Java
- Engineering experience with SIEM, EDR, NDR, and SOAR technologies: You have on-boarded logs in your sleep and built custom detections/automations for complex environments
- Conducted incident response: Structured, mature incident response processes are your vocabulary to swiftly resolve security incidents. Afterwards, you use evidence and data to tell the story and ensure action items are meticulous and complete
- Familiarity across multiple domains: Deep understanding of network protocols, operating systems, cloud environments, virtualized hosts, containers, in order to identify potential threats to each
- Core security skills: Analytical thinking, crisis management, root cause analysis, and problem-solving, with a meticulous approach to identifying, investigating, and responding to incidents
What the job involves
- As a Principal Security Engineer on the Detection and Response (D&R) team at Roblox, you'll play a key role designing and developing effective custom security data pipeline systems, detection strategies and automations for response workflows to defend our critical assets from threat actors
- You will also lead real-time incident response, actively investigate events and analyze threat actor techniques to prioritize emerging threats to ensure Roblox is equipped to mitigate and react to critical challenges
- You will play a vital part to ensure the safety of our community and enterprise by proactively fostering a high-performing, inclusive security culture. This is a hybrid in-office role
- Be a D&R authority! You will deliver robust detection & response capabilities: build new threat detection systems (keeping false positives low) while also automating processes with scripts, playbooks and orchestration tooling
- Implement ETL pipelines: Design and develop customized data processing pipelines
- Conduct security operations: Actively monitor security events and participate in on-call rotations to lead real-time incident response to contain and mitigate potential security issues
- Build positive relationships: Collaborate with internal teams like InfoSec, Engineering, Product and Safety to design scalable solutions
- Help grow the D&R team: Guide and support junior engineer careers and contribute to hiring
Our take
Online gaming may be a well-established space, but Roblox has distinguished itself as a leader by empowering its community to build, share, and profit from their own creations, turning game development into an accessible, rewarding ecosystem for millions of users.
In addition to standard games, the platform offers virtual worlds and other experiences to explore and interact with. Its platform provides an online ecosystem for millions to create, socialize, chat, and explore immersive experiences with friends. In fact, in the US its used by two-thirds of children aged 9 to 12.
While the platform does face scrutiny over users safety (particularly given its young audience) the company's efforts to strengthen parental controls and open dialogue through initiatives like its new Parents Council signal a growing commitment to addressing these challenges. At the same time, its financial performance and creator-focused investments underscore a business in very strong health. With record payouts to developers, an expanding older player base, and a platform that increasingly rewards creative talent, Roblox's trajectory remains one of innovation and impressive growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$520m
SERIES H
Feb 2020
$150m
SERIES G
Total funding: $922.8m
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
David Baszucki
(Founder & CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford before founding Knowledge Revolution in 1990, where they spent 9 years as CEO. They worked as VP of MSC.Software for 2 years, and started Roblox in 2005.
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