Senior Detection and Response Engineer

Roblox•San Mateo, CA

1d•$196,750 - $243,290•Hybrid

About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

3+ years of experience in Security Data Engineering, having built services that are efficient, reliable, and scalable using programming languages like Golang or Python.
Experience leveraging infrastructure as code tools like Terraform and query languages like SQL.
Core security engineering skills, including prioritizing risk, designing compensating controls, and driving incidents to fully mitigate root causes.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

Engineer high-fidelity detections end-to-end, leading partners through threat modeling and logging, to deploying actionable alerts, while keeping false positives low.
Develop security data pipelines and actively contribute to internal software and data platforms, collaborating across engineering teams.
Participate in an on-call rotation to keep detection and response services healthy.
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.