Principal Detection and Response Engineer

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Be a D&R authority! You will deliver robust detection & response capabilities: build new threat detection systems (keeping false positives low) while also automating processes with scripts, playbooks and orchestration tooling.
• Implement ETL pipelines: Design and develop customized data processing pipelines.
• Conduct security operations: Actively monitor security events and 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 and Safety to design scalable solutions.
• Help grow the D&R team: Guide and support junior engineer careers and contribute to hiring.

Requirements

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Benefits

• 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.

Pay

• 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.

Schedule

• Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).