Principal Software Engineer, Education & Reform

Company: Roblox Corporation
Location: San Mateo
Posted on: May 24, 2025

Job Description:

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences- all created by our global community of developers and creators.At Roblox, we're building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We're on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.A career at Roblox means you'll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.WHY SAFETY?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 toolbelt 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.WHY Education & Reform?As a Principal Software Engineer on the Education & Reform team, you will be responsible for driving a large greenfield education and transparency problem space, leading several strong mid-level to senior engineers. You will collaborate closely with product managers, and sometimes wear a product hat yourself, while building large scale backend systems for behavioral interventions and consequences, education, and transparency. You will be a core part of applying UX research and behavioral science to reduce long-term recidivism and make Roblox a safe platform for all users. You will work on services with substantial scaling needs in the critical path of many critical user journeys, and you will feel a true sense of ownership and responsibility in thoughtfully and fairly protecting our users, while carefully balancing freedom and civility.You Will:

• Build large-scale distributed services for delivering interventions and consequences to users, including warnings, nudges, timeouts, account bans, and education, along with propagating these interventions to alt accounts.
• Work on a large greenfield effort to increase trust, transparency, and education in Roblox's moderation.
• Help evolve our moderation infrastructure to meet new safety and compliance requirements.
• Work with a tightly-knit, high-performing, diverse, and energetic cross-functional product engineering team with a strong sense of camaraderie.
• Mentor junior engineers to develop their skills and abilities.You Have:
  • 8+ years of experience with large scale infrastructure and distributed systems.
  • Strong ability to thrive in an ambiguous problem space.
  • Proven ability to work closely with cross-functional partners (product, design, data, research) to drive clear business impact.
  • Strong ability to establish clear success metrics, and create a roadmap to drive that metric.
  • Desire to mentor and grow other engineers.
  • Extensive experience in a modern programming language such as Golang or C#.
  • Experience with modern microservice architectures.
  • Experience (or at least strong interest) in the Trust & Safety domain.
  • An ownership and growth mindset.You Are:
    • An owner: You take responsibility for not just your own work, but the work of your teammates, and ensuring that our users are safe on Roblox.
    • A learner: You are constantly seeking knowledge to grow yourself and your impact.
    • Independent: You require little guidance and are generally able to figure out what to do yourself.
    • Collaborative: You are able to effectively work with cross-functional partners (UXD, UXR, DSA, PM) and engineering peers.
    • Empathetic to the needs and motivations of our users and creators - not just those who are exposed to violative content, but also those who are responsible for the abuse.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.Annual Salary Range:$289,460 - $338,270 USDRoles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).You'll Love:
      • Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage.
      • A rewarding 401k program.
      • Flexible vacation policy (varies by exemption status).
      • Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy.
      • At Roblox HQ:
      • 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.Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations for all candidates during the interview process.
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