Principal Security Software Engineer, Application Security
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
- Lead company-wide security initiatives to address critical security challenges.
- Build and nurture cross-company relationships to achieve security objectives.
- Provide guidance on product security processes and standards.
- Define and expand partnerships with key engineering teams across Roblox.
- Apply critical thinking and analytical skills to develop security protocols and communicate effectively with stakeholders.
- Research and evaluate new technologies to enhance the company's security posture.
- Identify potential threats and vulnerabilities in our systems and data, as well as help develop and implement solutions to safeguard them.
- Enable cross-functional teams to implement security solutions aligned with Trust-by-Design principles.
- Contribute to security education and awareness programs by partnering across teams to collaboratively build and promote shared understanding of security practices throughout the company.
- Shape strategies to automate and scale application and product security efforts.
- Design and secure autonomous agentic workflows.
- Test application code following the OWASP Testing Methodology.
- Mentor and guide other security engineers!
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience in cybersecurity, with a deep background in application security, data encryption, and compliance with security standards, as well as knowledge of network and cloud security.
- Expertise in explaining complex security challenges and solutions to both technical and non-technical leadership.
- Proven ability to build strong relationships and influence principal engineers across teams.
- Experience in software and infrastructure architecture with a focus on security.
- Extensive experience with common code and network vulnerabilities, their impacts, and remediation strategies.
- Applied knowledge of cryptography, PKI, TLS, and practical implementations.
- Experience with threat modeling and Secure Software Development Life Cycles.
- Experience operationalizing security best practices in large-scale internet environments.
- Familiarity with network and server hardware, as well as Linux and Windows security.
- Familiarity with secure deployment patterns for AI agents, including isolation strategies (sandboxing, microVMs), secrets protection, and audit/logging for agent capabilities.
- Familiarity with enabling safe AI adoption at scale, balancing security, developer productivity, and organizational risk.
Qualifications
- Team-oriented, collaborative professional who enjoys working with others.
- Passionate about security and knowledgeable about security principles, understanding their value to an organization.
- Passionate about long-term solutions that drive lasting security improvements, prioritizing sustainable change over quick fixes.
Skills
- Programming languages: Python, Golang, C#, Bash, Python.
- Cryptography, PKI, TLS.
- Threat modeling, Secure Software Development Life Cycles.
- Network and server hardware, Linux, Windows security.
- Secure deployment patterns for AI agents.
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 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.
Annual Salary Range $326,060—$385,050 USD
Schedule
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.
Company
Roblox is a company that builds the tools and platform that empower its community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. It aims to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. Roblox is committed to connecting a billion people with optimism and civility, and is looking for amazing talent to help it get there. Roblox is on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and is looking for amazing talent to help it get there.