Roblox
Senior Software Engineer, Safety Foundation
$197K–$243K
San Mateo, CA, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years.
- Education
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field—or equivalent experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- For US-based roles, the company may be unable to employ candidates with work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
About the job
Build and scale the infrastructure and developer platform that powers content moderation and safety workflows across Roblox.
What you'll do
- Architect and develop the Safety Platform.
- Build developer tools that help Roblox teams integrate safety capabilities.
- Own projects from concept through deployment and partner with safety, operations, and product teams.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience building and operating backend services and/or distributed systems.
- Proficiency in Go or a similar compiled language; Go is strongly preferred.
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field—or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- Experience or strong interest in building developer platforms.
- CQRS, Event Sourcing, or NoSQL technologies such as Cassandra or DynamoDB.
Pay
$196,750 — $243,290 USD annual base salary
Tools
Go, Cassandra, DynamoDB, CQRS, Event Sourcing
AI focus
Rebuild the safety platform to natively support agentic and ML-driven safety workflows.
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