Senior Software Engineer, Safety Foundation
San Mateo, CA · San Mateo · USD 196,750-243,290 / year · 5+ years experience · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Oct 14, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- San Mateo, CA · San Mateo
- Salary
- USD 196,750-243,290 / year · Base salary
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship not offered
About the role
- As a Senior Software Engineer on the Safety Foundation team, you will architect, implement, and grow the systems that enable the moderation of all content and interactions on Roblox.
- Your work will be fundamental in keeping the experiences of over 100+ million daily active users at Roblox safe, civil, and delightful.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the architecture & development of the Safety Platform - the backbone that powers safety across Roblox.
- Help design & build the developer experience layer that enables product teams across Roblox to integrate safety capabilities in hours, not months
- Take ownership of projects from concept to deployment, ensuring high quality, reliability, and scalability.
- Partner closely with Trust & Safety ML, User Safety, Safety Operations, and product teams to translate platform needs into durable infrastructure
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building & operating backend services and/or distributed systems
- Proficient in Go or a similar compiled language (Go strongly preferred)
- Experience with or strong interest in building developer platforms
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field — or equivalent experience
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with CQRS, Event Sourcing, NoSQL tech such as Cassandra, DynamoDB is a plus
Benefits
- equity compensation
Workplace
- Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
Skills
- Go
- Cassandra
- DynamoDB
