Senior Software Engineer - Content Safety

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 detect, remove, and prevent problematic content and behavior, and we make Roblox accounts secure and free from compromise. We cover a broad area of the tech spectrum, including machine learning, classifiers for 3D models, experimentation, automation, 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 CONTENT SAFETY?

As a Senior Software 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. You will report to the Engineering Manager, Content Safety.

You Will:

• Work on every application that Roblox develops, from mobile phone clients to cloud-based servers.
• Be an integral partner to machine learning engineers, enabling ML at all levels of the stack.
• Help define the team's roadmap and long-term strategy towards keeping content and features on Roblox safe.
• Utilize our unique infrastructure to solve exciting problems at scale.
• Work on high impact, high visibility projects to improve user safety and experience.

You Have:

• 7+ years of experience in software development
• 7+ years of experience building and shipping products to production.
• 4+ years of experience developing large-scale systems.
• 4+ years of experience with C++
• Familiar with Lua, Python, C#, TypeScript, or Go (plus)
• Experience using big data query/processing languages and tools such as SQL, Hive, Spark and Airflow (plus)
• Contributions to open source projects (plus)

You Are:

• Experienced: You've worked on deep and challenging problems in complex C++ codebases
• Systems-level: pointers, templates, and raw blocks of memory are tools to write code, not your enemies
• Responsible: You build systems that work and keep on working reliably
• User Oriented: You always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers before architecting a solution.

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.Annual Salary Range$233,840—$283,780 USD

You’ll Love: 

• Industry-leading compensation package
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• A rewarding 401k program
• Flexible vacation policy
• Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy 
• Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
• At Roblox HQ: 
• Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
• Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
• Annual CalTrain Go Pass

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