Principal Security Engineer, Detection & Response

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. 

At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 

A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

As a Principal Security Engineer you will be a foundational member of the detection and response team responsible for the protection of Roblox’s intellectual property, trade secrets, and confidential information. You will lead, coordinate, and deliver Roblox security program achievements by communicating with stakeholders across security and engineering. You will be a key contributor in supporting other security teams and driving business-friendly security and developing processes along with improvements. This role will have a direct, immediate, and positive impact on our internal security, external customers, and the hundreds of millions of users that use and rely on Roblox.

You Have:

• 8+ years of experience in working on a security detection and response team and have niche expertise in proactive alert development and reactive response to intellectual property, trade secrets, and confidential information.
• Experience in automation in Python, Bash, Go, similar languages, or security orchestration
• Knowledgeable in detection engineering, endpoint detection and response tooling, intrusion detection, threat hunting, threat modeling, common IOCs/TTPs, and initial access techniques for insider risks
• Expertise with SOAR, UAM, SIEM, DLP, and UEBA technologies
• Have an executive presence with superb communication skills and ability to collaborate with multiple teams and intelligence source groups both internal and external to the organization
• Have experience responding to high severity investigations and the ability to conduct technical response.

You Will:

• Be responsible for developing an alerting system to protect Roblox’s intellectual property, trade secrets, and confidential information.
• Build runbooks, procedures, and orchestration for triage
• Conduct timely investigation summaries with relevant collaborators such as Roblox Employment Legal, Roblox Legal, and Roblox Security Leadership
• Spearhead, strategize, and collaborate to mature the detection and response program at Roblox
• Respond to alerts, review logs, conduct threat hunts, and further enhance our proactive monitoring and alerting.
• Lead tabletop exercises with key stakeholders and partners
• Develop metrics around monitoring, detection, response, and forecasting
• Work with sister security teams to reduce threat surface areas and raise security awareness
• Evaluate, recommend, and improve upon existing technical and non-technical solutions to detect and respond to potential risks and threats

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.

Roles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

You’ll Love: 

• Industry-leading compensation package
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• A rewarding 401k program
• Flexible vacation policy (varies by exemption status)
• Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy 
• Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
• At Roblox HQ: 
• Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
• Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
• Annual CalTrain Go Pass

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations for all candidates during the interview process.