Senior Privacy Software Engineer

Roblox•San Mateo, CA

6h•$216,680 - $269,170•Onsite

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 Privacy Software Engineer on the Privacy Infrastructure team, you will design and build the foundational platforms, services, and controls that enable Roblox to protect user data and meet global privacy obligations at scale. You will develop privacy-by-design solutions that support data governance, user privacy rights, data discovery, retention, auditing, and regulatory compliance across a rapidly growing ecosystem of products and services. This role sits at the intersection of distributed systems, data platforms, security, and privacy engineering. You will partner closely with engineers, product teams, security, legal, and policy stakeholders to build scalable privacy infrastructure that is deeply integrated into Roblox's development workflows. Your work will directly influence how we responsibly manage data for millions of users while enabling innovation across the platform.

Requirements

5+ years of software engineer experience operating production systems at scale.
Expertise in Python or Golang.
Experience working with ETL, metadata systems, or data governance solutions.
Deep understanding of data privacy, security technologies, and data governance principles.
Familiarity with privacy and regulatory frameworks such as GDPR, CCPA.

Responsibilities

Design and build scalable privacy infrastructure that enables Roblox to discover, govern, protect, and manage personal data at scale.
Develop backend services, APIs, and data pipelines that embed privacy controls into engineering workflows and enable fulfillment of user privacy rights at global scale.
Analyze large-scale data systems and data flows to identify privacy risks and improve data governance and data lifecycle management.
Build monitoring, auditing, and reporting capabilities to ensure privacy controls are reliable, measurable, and effective.
Craft strategic approaches to data privacy and security across the platform.