Senior Software Engineer - Content Safety

WHY SAFETY?

At Roblox, we aim 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 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 tool belt 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.

WHY CONTENT SAFETY?

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

You Will:

• Build high-scale systems to detect and address problematic content on Roblox.
• Develop new detection approaches in a rapidly evolving landscape. Build backend pipelines for new detection signals and make ML model improvements, working closely with ML engineers on the team.
• Take a data-driven approach to assess gaps in our detection systems. Think creatively, strategically, and adversarially to identify opportunities and implement them.
• Help define the team's roadmap and technical foundations towards keeping users on Roblox safe
• Partner with Moderation Operations, PM, Data, and stakeholders across Roblox.

You Have:

• 5+ years of experience in software development
• 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, while being empathetic with cross-functional stakeholders.

You Are:

• Versatile: 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. You foster a culture of technical excellence.