ROBLOX Corporation

Senior Detection and Response Engineer

ROBLOX Corporation$196K — $243K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in Security Data Engineering, proficient in Golang or Python.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code tools, particularly Terraform.
  • Skilled in SQL and developing scalable services.
  • Solid understanding of security engineering principles and risk management.
  • Demonstrated experience in incident management and mitigation.

Responsibilities

  • Engineer high-fidelity detections from threat modeling to actionable alerts.
  • Develop and maintain security data pipelines for internal platforms.
  • Participate in on-call rotation to ensure service reliability.
  • Foster a security-first culture across teams and protect users effectively.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to create efficient security solutions.

Benefits

  • Equity compensation for all full-time employees.
  • Hybrid work model with in-office days for collaboration.
  • Opportunity to work in an innovative industry with a mission-driven approach.
Full Job Description
As a Senior Security Engineer on the Detection and Response (D&R) team at Roblox, you'll protect our user community alongside the underlying platform infrastructure. You'll design high-fidelity detections, engineer security data platforms, and respond alongside the team during incidents. This is a hybrid in-office role in San Mateo.

You Will:
  • Deliver robust D&R capabilities: Engineer high-fidelity detections end-to-end. Lead partners through threat modeling and logging, to deploying actionable alerts, while keeping false positives low.
  • Build security data pipelines: Develop security data pipelines and actively contribute to internal software and data platforms, collaborating across engineering teams.
  • Ensure service reliability: Participate in an on-call rotation to keep detection and response services healthy.
  • Embody security culture: 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.

You Have:
  • 3+ years of experience in Security Data Engineering: You have built services that are efficient, reliable, and scalable using programming languages like Golang or Python. You leveraged infrastructure as code tools like Terraform and query languages like SQL.
  • Core security engineering skills: You prioritize risk, design compensating controls and drive incidents to fully mitigate root causes.

You Are:
  • Intellectually restless: You relish gathering data to inform decisions. You embrace new paradigms to tackle complex problems with creativity and speed.
  • A collaborative builder: You are comfortable diving into shared codebases and submitting github PRs to build scalable security solutions.
  • Pragmatic: You balance open-source, commercial tools, and custom in-house builds to find the right fit for unique security challenges.


For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: 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.

Annual Salary Range

$196,750-$243,290 USD

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

About ROBLOX Corporation

Roblox Corporation is a video game company that operates a massively multiplayer online game platform. The platform allows users to create and play games in a virtual world, with a focus on user-generated content. Roblox was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California. The company has grown rapidly in recent years, and now has over 100 million monthly active users. In 2021, Roblox went public through a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
Learn more about ROBLOX Corporation
Size
960 employees
Market Cap
$15.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$242.8 million
Founded
2004
Revenue
$727 million
NASDAQ

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