ROBLOX Corporation

Senior Security Software Engineer, IAM

ROBLOX Corporation$269K — $326K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience with scalable, distributed backend applications
  • Proficient in a major programming language (Python, Java, Go, C++, or C# .NET)
  • Active user of AI tools with clear understanding of AI limitations and permissions
  • Knowledgeable in REST APIs, design patterns, and containerized microservices
  • Experience mentoring or leading engineering teams
  • Familiar with policy frameworks like OPA and SPIFFE
  • Skilled in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) solutions
  • Experienced with Privileged Access Management (PAM)
  • Knowledge of access control models (RBAC, ABAC, Risk-Based)

Responsibilities

  • Design identity and access protocols for AI agents
  • Engineer scalable IAM solutions across on-premises and cloud infrastructures
  • Develop authentication and authorization mechanisms for services
  • Establish a secure 'golden path' framework for developers
  • Take end-to-end responsibility for security service development

Benefits

  • Equity compensation for full-time employees
  • Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
  • Flexible work schedule with hybrid in-office requirements
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Collaborative work environment fostering innovation
Full Job Description
As a Senior Security Software Engineer on the IAM team at Roblox, you'll build the next generation of identity and access management - defining how both humans and AI agents get identity, authenticate, and receive access to Roblox's production infrastructure. As AI agents become first-class actors in our systems, you'll design the tooling and policy that governs what they can do, how they prove who they are, and how we keep that access safe at scale. You'll also continue to evolve our workload authentication, privileged access management, and secure "golden path" for developers. Your work will directly shape the security posture of our entire production environment and set the standard for agentic IAM across the industry.

You will:
  • Design Identity and Access for AI Agents: You will define how AI agents get credentials, receive scoped permissions, and have their sessions managed throughout their lifecycle - pioneering the patterns for agentic identity in production.
  • Engineer Hybrid Production IAM at Scale: You will design and implement scalable IAM solutions for Roblox's hybrid production environment, spanning on-premises and cloud infrastructure, ensuring secure and efficient access for humans, workloads, and AI agents across the entire ecosystem.
  • Develop and Manage Workload Authentication & Authorization: You will build robust authentication and authorization mechanisms for workloads and services accessing production environments, enforcing least privilege and secure access controls.
  • Establish the Secure Golden Path for Development: You will develop and maintain a streamlined, secure "golden path" framework that empowers developers to build tools and services with appropriate IAM controls baked in by default.
  • Have the independence, opportunity, and end-to-end responsibility to develop security services within the Roblox infrastructure ecosystem.

You have:
  • 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: You actively use AI tools in your daily workflow, understand LLM capabilities and limitations, and can reason about what it means to give 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.
  • 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) - 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


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

$269,170-$326,060 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
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