Senior Frontend Engineer, Account Authentication

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San Mateo, CA
Hybrid
193K-239K Annually
Expert/Leader
Computer Vision • Gaming • Software • Virtual Reality • Web3 • Metaverse
Immersive gaming and creation platform
The Role
As a Senior Frontend Engineer on the Account Authentication team at Roblox, you will lead the development of user authentication and security features. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, decompose strategic problems, and craft innovative technical solutions to enhance usability, security, and scalability for millions of users.
Summary Generated by Built In

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.

Why Account Authentication and Security?

The Roblox Account Authentication and Security team provides the front door for the metaverse. Across mobile, web, console, and all locales, we are responsible for onboarding Roblox players, creators and securing their sessions. When we do our job well, Roblox users will have a seamless and secure experience on Roblox.

What makes Roblox unique is that our users tend to skew young and are therefore both impatient and vulnerable. This role is for someone who wants to be a technical leader in making account authentication and security child proof.

This is an excellent opportunity for a product engineer with expertise working on complex thick clients solving user authentication or account security problems to have a large scale impact. The team is product oriented and entrepreneurial with ~80% of our roadmap being sourced from within the team.

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.

You Will:

  • Build critical 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.at cover the role responsibilities)

You Have:

  • 4+ years of experience in software development
  • 4+ years of experience building and shipping user facing 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 building customer-facing user experiences

You Are:

  • Experienced: have designed and built backend systems depended on by other users/teams
  • Data-Literate: Schema design, telemetry, batch and streaming frameworks at scale. You understand the challenges of keeping data both intuitive to use and trustworthy.
  • Responsible: You build systems that are robust, and use production incidents to learn and improve.
  • User Oriented: You always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers before architecting a solution.

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.

Annual Salary Range

$192,890$238,520 USD

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.

Top Skills

C++
Java
Kotlin
Lua
Objective-C
Swift

What the Team is Saying

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VP of Engineering
“From the outside, we're just another rapidly scaling tech startup, but from the inside, I have never encountered a group of more empathetic, compassionate, and motivated people in my professional career. “
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The Company
HQ: San Mateo, CA
2,500 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2004

What We Do

Roblox is an immersive gaming and creation platform that offers people millions of ways to be together, inviting its community to explore, create and share endless unique experiences. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together — in a world that's safe, civil, and optimistic. To achieve this vision, we are building an innovative company that, together with the Roblox community, has the ability to strengthen our social fabric and support economic growth for people around the world.

Why Work With Us

Every day, Roblox employees tackle complex questions and drive incredible innovation. Join us in building the future of human connection and communication.

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Roblox Offices

Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

We are requiring employees to be in the office three days a week – with core days being Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. On Mondays and Fridays, employees may choose to work remotely, although the office will still be open.

Typical time on-site: 3 days a week
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