Principal Software Engineer, Content Safety

WHY CONTENT SAFETY?

Safety and Civility is Roblox's #1 priority and our mission is to protect our community. As a Principal Software Engineer on Content Safety, you'll be a hands-on technical leader building systems to ensure that user-generated content across Roblox is safe and civil. This includes images, experiences, 3D avatars, and much more. You'll work on some of the most challenging problems we face, such as identifying misleading experiences and exploitative 3D models, and build systems evaluating hundreds of millions of content per week. 

The ideal candidate is creative, data-driven, and a strong hands-on leader who cares about keeping our users safe. Experience building ML systems at scale is ideal, but not strictly necessary. 

You Will:

• Build high-scale systems to detect and address problematic content on Roblox. Build backend pipelines for new detection signals and make ML model improvements. 
• Develop new detection approaches in a rapidly evolving landscape. Use a data-driven lens to think creatively, strategically, and adversarially to identify opportunities. 
• Define the team's roadmap and technical foundations, and drive execution.
• Be a technical leader for the team and mentor junior engineers. 
• Partner with Moderation Operations, PM, Data, and stakeholders across Roblox.

You Have:

• 5+ years of experience building and shipping large-scale services to production
• 5+ years of experience working on multi-person codebases, including open-source or personal projects
• Passion for delivering products end-to-end, from ideation through implementation, with laser focus on the end goal while being empathetic with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience building, or working adjacent to, end-to-end ML systems at scale.

You Are:

• Resourceful: You're adaptable in any situation and can always find a path forward. 
• Analytical: Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and quantify the problems and the solutions.
• User Oriented: You always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers before architecting a solution. 
• Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger. You are a sought-after mentor. You foster a culture of technical excellence. 
• Mission Oriented: You stay laser-focused on the mission and are versatile, creative, and strategic to achieve it. You think long-term, and find ways to deliver short-term value on the way to get there.