Senior Software Engineer - Bot Defense at Roblox

San Mateo, California, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

07 Oct, 26

Salary

243290.0

Posted On

09 Jul, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Full-Stack Development, Back-End Development, Front-End Development, Data Processing Pipelines, System Architecture, API Design, Bot Defense, Real-time Mitigation, Analytics, Production-grade Systems

Industry

Software Development

Description

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 accounts, 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 toolbelt 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 BOT DEFENSE? Roblox is a prime target for automated scripts that join experiences to post "Free Robux" scams, exploit game economies, or manipulate server popularity. Join our Bots and Spam team, where you will tackle the critical challenge of safeguarding the platform against sophisticated bot threats. While our current team of 9 expert Backend and ML engineers has successfully rewritten our core detection pipelines and reduced detection latency to under 10 minutes, we have reached a critical inflection point. To move from reactive firefighting to a hardened, self-serve platform, we need the missing piece of our puzzle: you. We are seeking a founding Full-Stack Engineer to define and own the frontend and platform interface for the Bot Defense team at Roblox. As a full-stack engineer on our team, you will bridge the gap between complex detection models and real-time mitigation, working across the entire stack—from developing high-throughput data processing pipelines and real-time request-level defenses to building intuitive tooling for reviewing and monitoring bot activity. You will have a direct impact on platform health, ensuring fairness for creators and players by staying ahead of evolving threats in a high-stakes, data-driven environment This isn't just a traditional coding role; it is a platform-building role. If you want to solve complex, high-stakes problems with a team that has already proven its ability to deliver major technical milestones, we want to talk to you. You will: Be the architect of our platform interface: You won’t be maintaining legacy code; you will be building our GCS (Generic Challenge Configuration) Web UI from scratch. This tool is the gateway for downstream feature teams across Roblox to self-onboard and tune rules independently. You are essentially building the "control center" for bot defense. High-impact engineering at scale: You will own the Device ID integration—a critical signal layer that acts as the un-spoofable cornerstone for our reputation graphs. Your work will directly dictate how we catch sophisticated bots across signup, login, and game-join events. The "Founding" Experience: You will have total autonomy to shape our frontend practices. As the first dedicated full-stack hire on a team of 9 infrastructure and ML experts, you will have unique influence over the team's roadmap, tooling, and technical direction. Visible Results: Your work directly protects the platform’s health. By building custom analytics views and alert groupers, you will be the reason we can identify false positives in real-time and spare legitimate users from unnecessary friction.1 Bridge the gap: Translate complex backend detection intelligence into intuitive, high-value interfaces. Build the ecosystem: Transform us from a "service team" into a "Bot Defense-as-a-Service" platform. Solve the toughest problems: Help us solve the "Identity Gap"—the most urgent challenge facing our signup protection today. You Have: 4+ years of experience in software development. Experience as a full-stack engineer, proficient in back-end development, working on complex, production-grade systems end-to-end. 2+ years of experience in front-end development Equivalent experience or a BS in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, or another technical field. Versatile: You're a jack of all trades and you are comfortable with several languages and technologies already; you are adaptable in any situation. You are resourceful, and take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems. Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger. 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 as described on this page. Annual Salary Range $196,750—$243,290 USD Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted). Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process. For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.

Responsibilities

Architect and build the Generic Challenge Configuration Web UI from scratch to enable self-onboarding for bot defense rules. Develop high-throughput data processing pipelines and integrate Device ID signals to protect the platform from sophisticated bot threats.