Senior/Principal Software Engineer, Roblox
Vulnerability Research
$283.8-348.2k
+ Equity
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Online gaming & entertainment platform
Job no longer available
Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$283.8-348.2k
+ Equity
Office located in San Mateo, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help connect and bring together people from around the world through play.
Role
Who you are
- Proficiency: You're a software engineer with substantial experience in C++
- Security Expertise: You have more than 5 years of in-depth technical knowledge of common security vulnerabilities and risks
- Technical Understanding: You have a grasp of C++ memory vulnerabilities, Linux local privilege escalation, and container escapes
- Threat awareness: You have expertise in application threat modeling, vulnerability research, risk assessment, and security testing
- Mitigation strategies: You are experienced in developing strategies to mitigate software and system vulnerabilities
- Engine/platform focus: You are enthusiastic about developing security mechanisms from scratch to protect a game engine or a similar platform, and you are comfortable developing cross-platform code
What the job involves
- The Engine Security team focuses on solving complex engineering challenges to protect Roblox Engine from potential malicious users and attackers. As a Software Engineer specializing in Vulnerability Research within the Engine Security team, your role will encompass several key responsibilities:
- Report directly into the Engineering Manager
- Research and identify dangerous vulnerabilities in Roblox engine software architecture (C++/Lua)
- Develop new tools to automate vulnerability discovery and configure/utilize existing ones for static code analysis and fuzzing
- Review code and system designs manually or in a more freestyle approach, using your security knowledge and experience to improve security
- Communicate, document, prioritize, and actively drive the mitigation of security issues
- Collaborate with Roblox engineering and information security teams to help mitigate flaws in software and systems
- Debug security issues
- Research, design, and apply advanced techniques for building secure systems
- Contribute to the establishment of a vulnerability management program, the development of secure development guidelines, and the implementation of a security review process
- Threat Modeling: You will actively contribute to threat modeling efforts, enhancing our understanding of potential vulnerabilities
- Vulnerability Research: You will conduct research using security testing tools and a more manual approach
- Vulnerability Management: You will review on vulnerabilities, prioritize them based on impact and apply mitigation mechanisms to effectively manage them
- Issue Debugging: You will resolve issues, including engine security bugs reported through our Bug Bounty program
- In addition to these core responsibilities, you will collaborate on designing and building secure systems. You will partner with other engineering and security teams to security solutions and participate in software development
- You will have a unique opportunity to work with some of the industry's most security software engineers within our expanding Engine team
Our take
While online gaming is no longer a revolutionary concept, Roblox has established itself as a leader in the industry by creating a gaming toolbox that encourages quality game creation, which it pays developers for.
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 experiences on the platform are made by Roblox's over three million creators, and are available on a range of devices from PC to Xbox to Oculus, and more. The company has grown at an impressive rate, and has been keen to adopt new developments in the tech world, for example with its real-time AI translation for players to interact outside their native tongue.
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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 benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401k
- Flexible vacation policy
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
David Baszucki
(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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