Principal Software Engineer, Communication Safety
Roblox
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.
At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
WHY SAFETY?
At Roblox, we strive to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and the Safety organization's mission is to become the leader in civil immersive online communities. We systematically and proactively detect, remove, and prevent problematic content and behavior, and we make Roblox accounts secure and free from compromise. We also keep the platform compliant for changing regulations and growth markets. We cover a broad area of the tech spectrum, including machine learning, experimentation, automation, highly scalable distributed backend systems, detection workflows, and AI-powered text filters. Aligned and partnering with product teams, we use this tool belt to discover new opportunities, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build safety products, and measure the impact on our community of users and developers. In doing so, we keep Roblox safe, civil, and inclusive, and we foster positive relationships between people around the world
WHY COMMUNICATION SAFETY?
As a Principal Engineer on Content Safety, you'll build systems to ensure that user-generated content across Roblox is safe and civil. You'll work on some of the most challenging problems we face, from real-time text-filters at scale, to using LLMs at the cutting edge of content moderation. Safety and Civility is Roblox's #1 priority, and our mission is to protect our community.
You Will:
- Raise the bar for engineering excellence around data intensive applications.
- Comfortable with ML/AI systems, interest to learn more a plus.
- Build core data systems to support the detection of bad content on Roblox. You will work on data warehouse, streaming, and HIL systems to tap the huge potential of Roblox’s data at scale.
- Take responsibility for data fidelity and quality, .
- Help define the team's roadmap and long-term strategy towards keeping content and features on Roblox safe.
You Have:
- 8+ years of experience in software development
- 5+ years experience designing and supporting data systems (pipelines, tables, telemetry, batch/streaming jobs, etc.)
- Experience building dashboards and reports to manage production systems, and track key product metrics
- An interest in machine learning
- Experience building systems that scale
- Familiar with systems for human in the loop / data annotation
You Are:
- Resourceful: Comfortable taking on challenges where tooling is imperfect, and goals are ambitious.
- Outcomes Oriented: Data and impact driven, understand that metrics are tools themselves and not mandates.
- Team Oriented: Can help us organize for higher efficiency, maintain high team morale through satisfying and meaningful work.
- A Technical Leader: You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical solutions. Your technical expertise influences product direction. You foster a culture of technical excellence.
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 hourly rate could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Please note that not all benefits shown below are applicable to internship opportunities.
Roles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations for all candidates during the interview process.
