Senior Full Stack Software Engineer - Authentication

Why Account Authentication?

As a Software Engineer on Roblox's Account Authentication team, you will work with teammates in the design, implementation and landing of features and fixes that allow people of all ages and geographies to securely join the metaverse. Your team will be the front door of the metaverse. We sign users up for Roblox on all platforms and subsequently re-authenticating those users when they want to use Roblox after they log out or move to a new device. When we do our job well, Roblox users will have a seamless experience regardless of whether they are using a PC, Android phone, or iOS tablet. After joining us, you will report to the Senior Manager of the Account Authentication team.

You Are:

• A Technical Leader: You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical solutions. Your technical expertise influences product direction. You foster a culture of technical excellence.
• 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.
• 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.
• Proactive: You can speak in detail about problems that you identified and solutions that you drove to launch.
• 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,

You Will:

• Build critical infrastructure and features to ensure that user authentication is seamless, secure, and reliable.
• Learn new skills and work on exciting challenges. We are using ML and Cryptography to make account authentication better.
• Work cross organizationally. We collaborate with teams and roles throughout Roblox and get a big picture view of how Roblox works.

You Have:

• 4+ years of experience in software development.
• 4+ years of experience building and shipping products to production in any domain, such as backend, frontend, or ML.
• 4+ years of experience working on multi-person codebases, including open-source or personal projects
• 2 years experience developing large-scale backend services or building customer-facing user experiences

You might have:

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, or other technical field
• Familiarity with C#, TypeScript, Lua, or Go.
• Previous experience with GRPC, Protobuf, React or relational databases.
• Previous experience with FIDO2, OAuth2, SSO, cryptography, biometric authentication, facial recognition, or certificate-based authentication.