Senior Software Engineer- Account Access & Controls
Roblox · San Mateo, CA, United States
About this role
**Senior Software Engineer — Account Access & Controls** ## About Roblox Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences—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 they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine how people come together, from anywhere in the world and on any device. ## Why Safety? Roblox’s Safety organization works to become the leader in civil immersive online communities. We systematically detect, remove, and prevent problematic accounts, content, and behavior, and we help ensure Roblox accounts are secure and free from compromise. ## Why Access & Controls? Roblox operates globally across many jurisdictions with different laws and regulations. User experiences are tailored based on age, location, parental consents, and more to ensure Roblox is safe and compliant. The **Access & Controls** pod owns the systems that make this possible—high-traffic services that sit in the hot path of nearly every user action across billions of accounts and millions of requests per second. ## You Will - Design, build, and operate **high-throughput, low-latency** services that shape what every Roblox user can see and do. The pod owns the full stack end-to-end (gRPC services, caching, data pipelines, and client integrations). - Help set the technical direction for how **feature access** and **user settings** work across Roblox, evolving systems as the platform and regulatory landscape grow. - Partner directly with feature teams to onboard them onto our platforms and turn regulatory requirements into consistent product behavior. - **Policy Deployment:** Replaced dynamic configuration with a purpose-built deployment system (custom UI, partial rollouts, shadow traffic, one-click rollback). - **Age-Checked Comms:** Powered platform-wide Age Checks for Communication features, enabling centralized answers to eligibility and communication rules. - Own the **reliability, performance, and observability** of systems that nearly every feature depends on. - Mentor other engineers and contribute to a culture of knowledge sharing, retros, and bottoms-up technical decision-making. ## You Have - **5+ years** building and operating backend or distributed systems at scale. - Strong fundamentals in **service design, caching, data modeling, and performance**—able to keep systems fast and correct under millions of requests per second. - A track record of leading projects from design through launch, including work spanning multiple teams or customers. - **Bonus:** Experience with authorization/access control, policy engines, configuration/feature-flag platforms, or regulatory compliance (e.g., age assurance, privacy, parental controls). - **Education:** BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science (or related field), or equivalent practical experience. ## You Are - Someone who thrives in ambiguity: defines problems without clear specs and drives to outcomes. - Innovative: removes friction with simple abstractions and prototypes that shape the team’s direction. - Reliability-focused: makes changes safe with rollouts, validation, and fast rollback. - Collaborative: translates ambiguous policy/regulatory requirements into concrete technical designs. - Mission oriented: cares about keeping Roblox safe and compliant for users of all ages worldwide
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