Senior Security Software Engineer, IAM

Overview

Senior Security Software Engineer on the IAM team, building identity and access management for humans, workloads and AI agents across Roblox's production infrastructure.

What you'll do

• Design identity and access for AI agents, including how they get credentials, receive scoped permissions and have sessions managed through their lifecycle.
• Engineer scalable IAM solutions for Roblox's hybrid production environment spanning on-premises and cloud infrastructure.
• Develop and manage workload authentication and authorization mechanisms enforcing least privilege and secure access controls.
• Establish and maintain a secure "golden path" framework that lets developers build tools and services with IAM controls baked in by default.
• Develop security services within the Roblox infrastructure ecosystem with independence and end-to-end responsibility.

What you'll need

• 4+ years of relevant professional experience building scalable, distributed backend applications.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Java, Go, C++, or C# .NET.
• AI fluency: actively use AI tools in your daily workflow, understand LLM capabilities and limitations, and reason about giving an AI agent an identity and permissions.
• Knowledge of REST APIs, design patterns, and scalable containerized systems and microservices.
• Experience mentoring or leading the technical work of other engineers.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with policy and identity frameworks like OPA, Topaz, SPIFFE/SPIRE, or similar technologies used for policy enforcement, workload attestation, and identity federation in cloud-native environments.
• Experience with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), including design, implementation, or maintenance of PKI solutions.
• Experience with Privileged Access Management (PAM), implementing or maintaining PAM solutions to control, monitor, and audit privileged access within production environments.
• Familiarity with access control models such as Role-Based (RBAC), Attribute-Based (ABAC), or Risk-Based Access Control.

Details

• Location: headquarters in San Mateo, CA.
• Roles based in the office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
• Annual base salary range: $251,090 to $306,730 USD. 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.