Senior Backend Engineer, Fraud & Trust Platform

Roblox; California (MO); On-site; USD 197,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Benefits package

Job summary

Roblox in San Mateo, CA is seeking an Economy Fraud engineer to defend the platform from fraud and abuse. You will build backend services, fraud platform components, and data pipelines to support product logic and ML models.

As a Tech Lead you will shape the technical roadmap, advance data-driven methods, perform occasional data analysis, and collaborate with backend engineers and data scientists. This full-time role includes equity and benefits, with onsite visits and opportunities to impact

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional experience with scalable, distributed systems.
• Experience in risk prevention, ML, or analytical work.
• End-to-end ownership with proactive communication to stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree or above in CS or a quantitative field.

Responsibilities

• Develop backend services, fraud platform components, and data pipelines.
• Lead data mining and data-driven approaches for fraud detection.
• Bridge communication between backend engineers, data scientists and ML engineers.
• Help recruit future talent for the team.

Skills

Distributed systems

Data-driven architecture

API design

Data modeling

SQL

NoSQL

Risk prevention

Machine learning

End-to-end delivery

Cross-functional communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or quantitative field

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Redis

Airflow

Job description

Roblox in San Mateo, CA is seeking an Economy Fraud engineer to defend the platform from fraud and abuse. You will build backend services, fraud platform components, and data pipelines to support product logic and ML models.

As a Tech Lead you will shape the technical roadmap, advance data-driven methods, perform occasional data analysis, and collaborate with backend engineers and data scientists. This full-time role includes equity and benefits, with onsite visits and opportunities to impact