Principal Software Engineer - Account Management

Why Account Management?

The goal of the account management team is to help users feel in control over their Roblox experience. The Account Management team builds the systems that allow users to control their presence on the Roblox platform and how accounts relate to each other. This team owns important aspects of the user experience, namely account settings, linking, and parental controls. These are some of the highest trafficked systems on the platform, and will only increase in usage as you promote more functionality around how users configure their privacy, features, and settings.

As a Principal Engineer on the Account Management Team you will work with others on the team on multi-quarter projects to rehaul our settings infrastructure, build general account linking systems, and create a safer and more trusted Roblox through parental controls and awareness product features. Our impact comes through collaboration across organizational and functional boundaries. If you are an experienced engineer who is passionate about building outstanding features in a data-driven environment, you'll be right at home on the Account Management team.features in a data-driven environment, you'll be right at home on the Account Management team.

You Will:

• Build critical infrastructure to make sure that every user has age and policy appropriate and personalized experiences when using Roblox.
• Enforce the principle of least privilege. The account identity team strives to respect user privacy by making sure that we expose the minimum amount of user information necessary for product decisions to be made by our fellow Roblox teams.
• Work cross organizationally. We collaborate with teams and roles throughout Roblox and get a big picture view of how Roblox works.

You Have:

• 8+ years of experience in software development.
• Experience working on a high availability feature.
• Worked cross organizationally to land a project.
• Familiar with C#, TypeScript, Lua, or Go. (bonus)

You Are:

• User Focused: You never lose sight of creating the most value for our users and developers, and have a passion for preserving trust and safety.
• Versatile: You have mastered several languages and technologies already. You 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.
• Proactive: You can speak in detail about problems that you identified and solutions that you drove to launch.
• Creative: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems and driving new tools/functionality for our developers
• Conscientious: You make sure that all the little things get done before you push code to production. You don't consider a project done if it doesn't have tests, dashboards, playbooks, communications to partner teams, and alerts.