Engineering Manager - Account Security

Roblox
San Mateo
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 295,250 - 345,040 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["Security","Cryptography","Architecture","Code reviews","Leadership"]

Lead the Account Security engineering pod at Roblox, shaping the strategy to reduce account takeover across millions of players and creators. You’ll mentor a growing team of 7+ ICs, partner with data science and product teams, and remain hands-on with architecture reviews, code contributions, and security-infrastructure initiatives like hardware-backed secrets, passkeys, and post-login detection to build a safer platform.

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Roblox
Roblox
3 months ago

Engineering Manager - Account Security

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Job Summary

Lead the Account Security engineering pod at Roblox, shaping the strategy to reduce account takeover across millions of players and creators. You’ll mentor a growing team of 7+ ICs, partner with data science and product teams, and remain hands-on with architecture reviews, code contributions, and security-infrastructure initiatives like hardware-backed secrets, passkeys, and post-login detection to build a safer platform.
Location: San Mateo
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •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.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 295,250 - 345,040 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •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.
  • •Ability to 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).
  • •Comfortable contributing code, leading rigorous architectural reviews, and diving deep into complex system challenges alongside your team.
Experience:SecurityAccount securityIdentityFraud detection
Skills:SecurityCryptographyArchitectureCode reviewsLeadership
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PasskeysHardware-backed secretsBrowser extensionsATO detectionCryptography

Company Brief

Roblox
Operates an online platform for user-generated games and virtual experiences, enabling creators to build, publish, and monetize interactive 3D experiences for a global community of players.
Industry: Gaming
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Mateo, United States
Founded: 2004
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