About the company
Roblox is building the tools and platform that empower a global community of developers and creators to build immersive experiences. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the hands-on tech lead for a group of engineers on the Safety Foundation team — setting technical direction, driving execution, and staying close to the code
- Lead the design and implementation of a scalable, cost-efficient platform engineered for 10x traffic growth
- Drive the AI-first transformation of the safety platform: architecting agentic and ML-integrated workflows with the security, auditability, and reliability that production safety systems require
- Build the developer experience layer that enables product teams across Roblox to integrate safety capabilities in hours, not months
- Partner closely with Trust & Safety ML, User Safety, Safety Operations, and product teams to translate platform needs into durable infrastructure
- Define backend standards and patterns across the team; raise the technical bar through code review, architecture guidance, and mentorship
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across networking, data, and compute — at scale
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building large-scale backend/distributed systems and shipping high-quality systems to production. Strong preference for candidates who have experience with building developer platforms.
- 4+ years acting as a tech lead: setting direction, driving execution, and growing engineers at multiple levels
- Deep proficiency in Go or a similar compiled language (Go strongly preferred). Experience with CQRS & Event Sourcing is a plus
- Experience with NoSQL databases at scale (DynamoDB, Cassandra, or similar)
- Experience with or strong interest in AI/ML platform integration — pipelines, agentic workflows, HITL workflows or similar
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field — or equivalent experience
Conditions
- For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.