Principal Security Engineer, Roblox
Detection and Response
$289.5-338.3k
+ 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
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$289.5-338.3k
+ Equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help connect and bring together people from around the world through play.
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
- Emotionally intelligent: You relish working with teammates and partners as you provide calm leadership during crisis situations and solve sophisticated security challenges
- Team-oriented and communicative: Skilled at influencing and working across teams to deliver solutions that align with business goals while driving the security mission forward
- Adaptable and creative: Comfortable with ambiguity, you can quickly gather data to make informed decisions, and you approach sophisticated problems with creativity and speed
- Pragmatic: Adept at balancing open-source and commercial tools to find the right fit for security challenges
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 actively investigate events, lead real-time incident response 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! Set strategy and build threat detection systems (keeping false positives low) while also automating processes with scripts, playbooks, and orchestration tooling. With autonomy and end-to-end responsibility, you’ll lead the delivery of robust detection & response capabilities
- Implement ETL pipelines: Design and develop customized data processing pipelines
- Conduct security operations: Actively monitor security events, 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, Trust and Safety to design scalable solutions
- Help grow the D&R team: Guide and support junior engineer careers and contribute to hiring
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.
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 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
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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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