Senior Detection and Response Engineer

Overview

Senior Security Engineer on the Detection and Response (D&R) team, protecting the Roblox user community and underlying platform infrastructure through high-fidelity detections, security data platforms, and incident response.

What you'll do

• Engineer high-fidelity detections end-to-end.
• Lead partners through threat modeling and logging, through to deploying actionable alerts while keeping false positives low.
• Develop security data pipelines and actively contribute to internal software and data platforms, collaborating across engineering teams.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to keep detection and response services healthy.
• Serve as a trusted security partner across Roblox, helping protect our community and enterprise while fostering a culture grounded in trust, ownership, and shared responsibility.
• Respond alongside the team during incidents.

What you'll need

• 3+ years of experience in Security Data Engineering.
• Experience building services that are efficient, reliable, and scalable using programming languages like Golang or Python.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform.
• Experience with query languages like SQL.
• Core security engineering skills: prioritizing risk, designing compensating controls, and driving incidents to fully mitigate root causes.
• Intellectually restless: gathers data to inform decisions and embraces new paradigms to tackle complex problems with creativity and speed.
• A collaborative builder comfortable diving into shared codebases and submitting GitHub PRs to build scalable security solutions.
• Pragmatic: balances open-source, commercial tools, and custom in-house builds to find the right fit for unique security challenges.

Details

• Location: San Mateo, CA, United States (hybrid in-office role).
• Onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
• Annual base salary range: $196,750 to $243,290 USD. Actual base pay depends on factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs, and market demand.
• Full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and benefits.
• For US based roles only: the Company may not be able to employ candidates who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.