Senior Software Engineer, Privacy Infrastructure

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Privacy Infrastructure team, you’ll design and build large-scale systems that operate across Roblox’s platform and data ecosystem. You’ll tackle complex distributed systems challenges, develop reliable and scalable infrastructure, and work across engineering teams to deliver foundational capabilities that serve millions of users. This is an opportunity to take on high-impact technical problems at Roblox scale while helping shape the next generation of our infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale reliable infrastructure and platform solutions that protect user data and support the needs of a global platform.
• Develop foundational capabilities for emerging technologies, including agentic AI workflows, with a focus on safe and responsible data access.
• Partner with engineering teams across Roblox to integrate scalable data protection capabilities into their systems and development workflows.
• Drive technical strategy and architecture for complex, cross-cutting challenges spanning data, infrastructure, privacy, and security.

Requirements

• 7+ years of proven experience as a software engineer.
• Expertise in Python or Golang.
• Strong understanding of system design, reliability, scalability, and data management principles.
• Interest in applying your engineering expertise to data protection and privacy challenges; prior domain experience is a plus, but not required.

Qualities

• Collaborative: You thrive in a team environment and work well with cross-functional partners.
• Ambitious: You are motivated to build flawless, secure experiences for millions of users.
• Comfortable with Ambiguity: You can navigate evolving requirements, make sound technical decisions, and create clarity in complex problem spaces.

Pay

For roles based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA, the starting base pay range is $287,840—$345,620 USD. 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. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and benefits.

Schedule

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