- As a Senior Security Engineer on the Detection and Response (D\&R) team at Roblox, you'll protect a community of hundreds of millions of monthly users alongside the underlying platform infrastructure
- You'll design high-fidelity detections, engineer security data platforms, and respond alongside the team during incidents. This is a hybrid in-office role in San Mateo
- Deliver robust D\&R capabilities: Engineer high-fidelity detections end-to-end from threat modeling through production quality alerts and actionable investigations, while keeping false positives low
- Correlate and automate: Apply the right tool for the job (be it rules, statistical modeling, traditional ML, or LLM agentic workflows) to filter, triage, enrich, and auto-respond to security alerts when it meaningfully improves signal or speed
- Build security data pipelines: Develop customized security data pipelines and actively contribute to internal software and data platforms, collaborating across engineering teams
- Shape detections at the source: Author detections and onboard logs by partnering across teams to instrument their services, improve log schemas, and influence infrastructure roadmaps
- Ensure service reliability: Participate in an on-call rotation to keep detection and response services healthy
- Embody Security Culture: Serve as a trusted security partner across Roblox, helping protect our community and enterprise while fostering a culture grounded in trust, ownership, and shared responsibility
Senior Detection and Response Engineer
Location:
San Mateo, CA
USD243,290 - 295,250
Skills:
monthsOfExperience: 60
OCaml
Python
GNewSense
Github
Terraform
