Senior Software Engineer - Fraud

About the role

As an Economy Fraud engineer at Roblox, you will defend the platform from various forms of fraud, including theft, scams, money laundering, and payment fraud. You will develop anti-fraud and abuse solutions for web, mobile, and 3D environments, ensuring the safety and integrity of the community and the company.

Responsibilities

• Develop backend services, fraud platform components, and pipelines to implement product logic, encourage engineering efficiency, and produce features for ML models.
• Be a Tech Lead contributing to the Technical Roadmap and Risk Defense strategy.
• Up-level data mining and data-driven approaches.
• Occasionally perform data analysis to understand the Fraud & Abuse domain.
• Occasionally bridge communication between generalist backend engineers, data scientists, and ML engineers.
• Help recruit future talent for the team.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional experience working with scalable, distributed systems.
• Strong experience in large-scale, data-driven architecture, API design, data modeling, and SQL / NoSQL data storage.
• Experience in risk prevention, machine learning, or analytical work.
• Risk prevention may include but is not limited to anti-Fraud, anti-Abuse, or Trust & Safety.
• Analytical work may include but is not limited to Data Analysis, Scientific Computing, Statistical Modeling, or Research.
• Passion for delivering products end-to-end, from ideation through implementation and A/B testing, while being empathetic with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong ownership with proactive, candid communication, and an ability to handle high complexity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or above in Computer Science or another quantitative field.

Skills

Passionate about delivering products end-to-end, from ideation through implementation and A/B testing, while being empathetic with cross-functional stakeholders.

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. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

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. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Schedule

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