Senior Director of Privacy, Product and Platform Security, Roblox
$458-525.5k
Plus equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Online gaming & entertainment platform
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Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$458-525.5k
Plus equity
More information about location
3+ 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
- 15+ years of experience in security engineering, privacy engineering, infrastructure security, or a related technical field, including 8+ years leading and developing engineering or security organizations
- Deep technical expertise in at least one security or engineering discipline, with the breadth and judgment to lead across product, platform, infrastructure, cloud, data, and privacy domains
- A track record of setting strategy and delivering measurable security outcomes across large-scale products, platforms, or distributed systems
- Experience embedding security and privacy into the software development lifecycle through architecture, standards, tooling, automation, and risk-based prioritization
- Strong systems thinking and technical judgment across modern production environments, including cloud, hybrid, distributed, containerized, and data-intensive systems
- A people-centered, results-oriented leadership style, with the ability to build high-performing teams, lead complex cross-functional initiatives, influence senior stakeholders, and communicate technical risk and tradeoffs clearly
What the job involves
- Roblox is looking for a Senior Director, Privacy, Product and Platform Security to lead the teams responsible for protecting the systems, products, services, and data that power the Roblox platform
- This is an opportunity to define how security and privacy are engineered into one of the world’s largest and most ambitious platforms
- You will work on problems that span product design, distributed systems, infrastructure, data, privacy, and emerging technology—helping protect the data and systems relied on by tens of millions of users and creators
- You will bring Product Security, Platform Security, and Privacy Engineering together around a unified vision to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Roblox’s products, infrastructure, and data systems
- The role will partner closely with Engineering, Infrastructure, Product, Legal, Privacy, Compliance, and other business leaders to make security and privacy durable properties of how Roblox designs, builds, deploys, and operates
- Reporting to the Chief Information Security Officer, you will oversee a high-impact organization of security engineering leaders and senior individual contributors. You will operate as a peer to Infrastructure and Engineering leadership, translating complex technical and regulatory challenges into clear priorities, measurable outcomes, and well-executed engineering solutions
- Set the vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for Product Security, Platform Security, and Privacy Engineering
- Lead and grow a high-performing organization of managers and senior technical leaders, while building a culture of accountability, inclusion, and technical excellence
- Establish security and privacy architecture principles for Roblox products, services, production platforms, cloud environments, and data systems
- Raise the security bar across the software development lifecycle through security reviews, threat modeling, secure design, testing, vulnerability management, and risk-based remediation
- Drive the design and adoption of hardened, secure platforms at Roblox scale, partnering with Infrastructure Engineering on foundational security controls
- Advance Privacy Engineering by embedding privacy-by-design practices and scalable technical controls into product and platform architecture, data flows, and operating processes
- Translate regulatory and company privacy commitments into clear engineering requirements, measurable controls, and durable solutions
- Own cross-functional priorities, metrics, executive reporting, and delivery for product security, platform security, privacy engineering, and related risk-reduction programs
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.
The platform has faced scrutiny over user safety, but responded by strengthen parental controls and launching initiatives like its "Parents Council". This move to address these issues, atop its strong financial performance and record payouts to developers, showcase Roblox's trajectory as 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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