Job brief: Senior Software Engineer- Account Access & Controls

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Roblox's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-10 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-10.
• The apply link opens careers.roblox.com, the address Roblox's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $243,290 to $295,250 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: San Mateo, CA, United States · San Mateo, CA
• Posted: 2026-11-09

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Senior. The title says "Senior".

Must have

• 5+ years of industry experience building and operating backend or distributed systems at scale.

Main duties

• Design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency services that shape what every Roblox user can see and do. The pod owns the full stack end-to-end, fr…
• Help set the technical direction for how feature access and user settings work across Roblox, evolving our systems as the platform and the regulatory landsca…
• Partner directly with feature teams across Roblox to onboard them onto our platforms and turn evolving regulatory requirements into consistent product behavi…
• Policy Deployment: Access rules used to ship as dynamic configuration, with no visibility into what was running in production and no way to revert without a …
• Age-Checked Comms: In late 2025, Roblox introduced platform-wide Age Checks for all Communication features, including restrictions that only allow users to c…

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs in San Mateo, CA: $257k a year (148 listings, 2 employers). This listing pays about the same.
• Across Roblox's 253 open listings, 45% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Roblox hires

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