Senior Software Engineer, Safety Foundation

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 detect, remove, and prevent problematic content and behavior, and we make Roblox accounts secure and free from compromise.

Why Safety Foundation

Safety Foundation is the infrastructure backbone that powers safety across Roblox. Every piece of content reviewed, every moderation action taken, every safety workflow running anywhere on the platform flows through systems built by this team. We are the platform that other safety teams build on — and right now, we're in the middle of one of the most significant evolutions in our history.

What You'll Do

• Contribute to the architecture & development of the Safety Platform - the backbone that powers safety across Roblox.
• Help design & build the developer experience layer that enables product teams across Roblox to integrate safety capabilities in hours, not months.
• Take ownership of projects from concept to deployment, ensuring high quality, reliability, and scalability.
• Partner closely with Trust & Safety ML, User Safety, Safety Operations, and product teams to translate platform needs into durable infrastructure.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building & operating backend services and/or distributed systems
• Proficient in Go or a similar compiled language (Go strongly preferred)
• Experience with or strong interest in building developer platforms
• Experience with CQRS, Event Sourcing, NoSQL tech such as Cassandra, DynamoDB is a plus
• BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field — or equivalent experience

What You Are

• Versatile: You're a generalist and you are comfortable with several languages and technologies already; you are adaptable in any situation. You are resourceful, and take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems.
• Analytical: Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and quantify the problems and the solutions.
• User Oriented: You always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers before architecting a solution.
• Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger.

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. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.

Location

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