Senior Software Engineer - Safety Experience

Overview

Senior Software Engineer on the Safety Application pod within Roblox's Safety Experience, building in-house safety applications and AI-agentic-powered tooling for daily Roblox safety operations.

What you'll do

• Architect and lead end-to-end, full-stack systems within Safety labeling and Investigative tooling, owning technical strategy from specification through implementation, rollout, and iteration.
• Act as the primary technical anchor for Operations, Product Managers, and partner safety pods, translating complex business pain points into scalable, extensible technical architectures.
• Define and drive the architectural direction for the next generation of safety applications, including integration of LLMs and agentic workflows for moderation solutions.
• Architect, build, and evangelize shared moderation primitives such as compliance infrastructure, quality assurance, traffic routing, workforce management, and agentic AI labeling frameworks.
• Lead large-scale, cross-organizational technical initiatives, navigating dependencies, resolving cross-team blockers, and aligning groups for adoption.
• Elevate engineering standards by mentoring engineers, driving design reviews, and establishing best practices across the safety platform ecosystem.
• Partner with engineering leadership to define technical priorities.

What you'll need

• 7+ years of experience in software development.
• Proven ability to design and implement robust, high-throughput microservices handling thousands of requests per second, with a strict focus on system safety and security.
• Strong commitment to designing, implementing, and maintaining systems that prioritize user safety, data integrity, and compliance with safety policies.
• Equivalent experience or a BS in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, or another technical field.
• Experienced full-stack engineer, proficient in front-end and back-end development on complex, production-grade systems end-to-end.
• Ability to instrument, collect, and analyze user interaction data (e.g., A/B testing, usage metrics) to inform design decisions.
• Proficient across multiple programming languages, frameworks, and technologies (e.g., modern React, Golang, Python, relational/NoSQL databases, cloud platforms).
• Collaborative team member who actively mentors peers and takes ownership of leading and delivering key features and projects across team boundaries.
• Eager to define and build AI-centric solutions, incorporating modern machine learning and agentic AI capabilities into core user experience and system architecture.
• Curious to learn new technologies and systematically grow your skills.

Details

• Location: San Mateo, CA headquarters.
• Onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday.
• Annual base salary range: $243,290 – $295,250 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 US work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.