Senior Security Software Engineer, Sandbox Platforms

Roblox•San Mateo, CA

9d•$269,170 - $326,060•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. About the role We build the isolation layers that contain untrusted and semi-trusted code. You will design, build, and harden process sandboxes across one or more of Linux, macOS, and Windows, the last line of defense when something inside goes wrong. This is a deep systems role for someone who thinks in terms of attack surface, threat models, and the exact boundary between trusted and untrusted.

Requirements

Deep, hands-on knowledge of the OS security model on at least one of Linux, macOS, or Windows, and the sandboxing primitives that platform provides.
Strong grasp of attack surface analysis: how sandboxes are escaped and how to shrink the ways in.
Fluency in the boundary between sandbox and host (brokers, IPC, syscall filtering, privilege separation) and how to design a minimal, well-audited interface.
Systems programming in C, C++, or Rust; comfort at the syscall and kernel-interface level.
Sound judgment on tradeoffs: knowing when tighter isolation is worth the cost and when it isn't.
A security mindset: you default to least privilege and distrust every input crossing the boundary.

Nice To Haves

Experience across more than one of the three platforms.
Kernel, hypervisor, or low-level OS internals work.
Fuzzing, exploit development, or red-team experience against isolation boundaries.

Responsibilities

Design and implement sandboxes using platform primitives: nsjail, seccomp-bpf, namespaces, cgroups, and Landlock on Linux; the Seatbelt (sandbox_init / SBPL) and related mechanisms on macOS; AppContainer, job objects, restricted tokens, and integrity levels on Windows.
Define and lock down every communication path in and out of the sandbox: syscalls, IPC, shared memory, file descriptors, sockets, brokers, and minimize what each one exposes.
Enumerate and reduce attack surface: kernel syscall surface, broker interfaces, device access, and side channels. Assume the code inside is hostile.
Make deliberate engineering tradeoffs between isolation strength, performance, compatibility, and maintainability, and document the reasoning.
Write threat models, review designs, and respond to sandbox escapes and hardening findings.