Senior Software Engineer, Roblox
Content Suitability
$196.8-243.3k
Plus equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (San Mateo, CA, )
Online gaming and entertainment platform
Posted today
Online gaming and entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
$196.8-243.3k
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
- 5+ years building highly available, large-scale distributed backend systems
- 5+ years delivering and maintaining production software for large-scale applications
- Proficient in Go, Java, C#, or similar OOP languages with strong design principles
- Excellent cross-team collaborator with a drive to complete projects
- Curious and proactive in learning new technologies and growing technical skills
- Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
- A Technical Leader: You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical solutions. Your technical expertise influences product direction. You nurture a culture of technical excellence
- Versatile: You're a generalist and you are comfortable with several languages and technologies already; you are adaptable in any situation. You are resourceful, and take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems
- Analytical: Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and quantify the problems and the solutions
- User Oriented: You always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers before architecting a solution
- Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger
What the job involves
- At Roblox, we strive to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and the Safety organization's mission is to become the leader in civil immersive online communities. We systematically and proactively detect, remove, and prevent problematic content and behavior, and we make Roblox accounts secure and free from compromise
- We also keep the platform compliant for changing regulations and growth markets. We cover a broad area of the tech spectrum, including machine learning, experimentation, automation, highly scalable distributed backend systems, detection workflows, and AI-powered text filters
- Aligned and partnering with product teams, we use this tool belt to discover new opportunities, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build safety products, and measure the impact on our community of users and developers. In doing so, we keep Roblox safe, civil, and inclusive, and we foster positive relationships between people around the world
- Join the Content Suitability team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of content on Roblox
- Our team is at the forefront of building tools and systems that enable creators to launch diverse, age-appropriate experiences. By helping developers bring content like the 18+ launch to a global audience, we ensure Roblox remains a platform for people of all ages
- Our work is deeply rooted in cutting-edge machine learning, where we develop and deploy sophisticated ML models essential for automated content review and policy enforcement
- This isn't just about good governance; it's about ensuring our creators can successfully launch their games everywhere. We help them seamlessly adapt content to local customs and regulations, preventing restrictions and ensuring a global reach for their work. Our efforts ensure the Roblox platform remains compliant with evolving regulations across all markets
- This safeguards our diverse user base and, critically, prevents the platform from being restricted in key regions. You'll also contribute to our Content Policy Platform, empowering teams across Roblox to add and manage content access policies that are vital to our platform's integrity and safety
- Contribute to the architecture and development of our Content Policy Platform, a high-throughput service handling millions of requests per second for content access decisions across the Roblox platform
- Work hand-in-hand with ML engineers, directly contributing to the development, productionization, and ongoing enhancement of machine learning models. These models play a critical role in automatically reviewing Content Maturity questionnaires and detecting regional policy violations at scale across millions of experiences
- Take ownership of projects from concept to deployment, ensuring high quality, reliability, and scalability
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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