Engineering Manager - Account Security
Roblox · San Mateo, CA, United States ·
- Employment
- Full time
- Category
- Management
- Visa sponsorship
- No
- Company size
- 1000+
- Salary
- USD 295,250 – 345,040 / year
Leads a 7+ person team to design and implement account security strategies for Roblox’s global platform, focusing on reducing account takeovers (ATO) and building trust through technical solutions like hardware-bound secrets, passkeys, and fraud detection models.
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.
The Account Security (AccSec) pod sits within the Accounts team (part of the broader Safety organization) and is at the heart of building a safe and civil platform for users of all ages. Account Security is especially challenging at Roblox because it is open to all ages.
As the EM of AccSec pod (7+ ICs) you will work closely with peers throughout Roblox and the creator community to reduce the impact of account takeover (i.e. compromise) for Roblox players, creators, and the broader community. This is a role that requires entrepreneurship. We are looking for the EM of the AccSec pod to, in collaboration with product partners, to formulate a strategy for how to reduce ATO, reduce the impact of any remaining ATO and build community trust in the security of their accounts.
Examples of past and current efforts include:
- Cryptographically binding user secrets to hardware backed secrets.
- Detecting client side tampering by Browser extensions.
- Integration with Passkeys.
- Post-login modeling for ATO detection.
- Reducing incentives for bad actors by making assets more recoverable.
While this is a security team that focuses heavily on product and infrastructure changes to improve security, we also consult on privacy and security reviews where relevant to Account Security.
You Have:
- Experience in account security, identity, or fraud detection, or abuse detection. The person selected with this role needs to have a good sense of what good looks like with respect to detecting and mitigating account takeover.
- A track record of leading teams as they land security or abuse fighting features from inception, to prioritization, to alignment, to implementation and finally launch.
- Experience in people leadership. You have led (and grown) high-performing engineering teams.
You will:
- Be entrepreneurial. The EM for AccSec will create (and present) Roblox’s ongoing Account Security strategy and define the roadmap for achieving that strategy (in collaboration with data science and product partners).
- Exhibit technical depth. While your primary focus as an EM is mentoring and growing your engineers, it is expected that you will remain technically authoritative. We expect our engineering managers to be comfortable contributing code, leading rigorous architectural reviews, and diving deep into complex system challenges alongside your team.
- Experiment. We try to be data informed and be intentional about when we make decisions in the absence of data.
- Scale your impact. We have millions of concurrent players on the platform and 100M+ monthly active accounts. Some have millions of dollars worth of value on the platform. All need to be secured.
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 as described on this page.
Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
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 to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.
For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.