Senior Child Safety Intelligence Analyst

Roblox; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 174,100 - 207,480; Full time

Job summary

Roblox is seeking a Senior Child Safety Intelligence Analyst to protect young users by identifying and disrupting threats at scale. You will combine OSINT, data science, and behavioral analysis to uncover evolving risks to minors across the platform.

You will develop automated signals, guide product safety features, and collaborate with cross-functional teams and external partners. A strong background in threat intelligence and gaming culture is essential for this role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in criminology, data analytics, cybersecurity, international relations, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 7–10 years of experience in Trust & Safety, Threat Intelligence, Digital Forensics, or Cybercrime Investigations.
• Experience identifying sources for intelligence collection to identify risks in a gaming or social platform environment.
• Proficiency in SQL or Python to query large datasets and isolate behavioral anomalies.

Responsibilities

• Intelligence and Threat Collection: Proactively hunt threats by monitoring the platform and external channels to map threat actors, evasion techniques, and emerging trends.
• Data and Signal Development: Analyze text, voice, assets, in-game economies, and social dynamics to translate findings into automated signals.
• Product Risk Advisory: Support the development of new platform features by identifying minor safety vulnerabilities before launch.
• Metrics and Reporting: Author threat briefings and intelligence products for Safety leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Third-Party Partnerships: Represent Roblox externally with NGOs and partners, and support outside intelligence gathering.
• Mentoring: Coach junior teammates on analytic tradecraft and intelligence work.

Skills

SQL

Python

OSINT

Threat intelligence

Data analytics

Gaming culture

Education

Bachelor's degree in criminology

Tools

Maltego

Job description

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.

Senior Child Safety Intelligence Analyst

On Roblox’s Safety Intelligence Team, you will be on the front lines protecting the platform’s youngest and most vulnerable users. This is a proactive intelligence role focused on identifying, tracking, and disrupting systemic threats to minors, to include child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSAE), grooming behaviors, peer‑to‑peer harassment, financial minor extortion (sextortion) and bad‑actor networks trying to exploit platform features to victimize minors. You will blend quantitative and qualitative data, open‑source intelligence (OSINT), behavioral analysis, and deep knowledge of online culture to uncover adversarial trends before they impact the platform ecosystem, and provide your analysis to teams across Roblox and company leadership. Your insights will directly shape automated detection logic, product safety features, and platform policy.

Psychological Wellness Note

This role involves exposure to highly sensitive and potentially disturbing themes regarding the exploitation of minors. Roblox offers resources to support employees handling this challenging work.

You Will

• Intelligence and Threat Collection: Proactively hunt threats by monitoring the platform and external channels to map out threat actors, evasion techniques, and emerging trends targeting minors in online surfaces. Lead all‑source intelligence collection planning for CE risks.
• Data and Signal Development: Analyze text, voice, assets, in‑game economies, and social mechanics to isolate behavioral indicators of new or developing child safety risks. Collaborate with data science and engineering teams to translate intelligence findings into automated heuristics, keywords, and machine learning signals to catch bad actors at scale.
• Product Risk Advisory: Support the development of new platform features by identifying minor safety vulnerabilities before launch.
• Metrics and Reporting: Author comprehensive threat briefings and intelligence products for Safety leadership and cross‑functional teams.
• Third‑Party Partnerships: Represent Roblox externally with third‑parties to include NGOs and industry partners, and support third‑party intelligence gathering.
• Mentoring: Coach junior teammates on analytic tradecraft and intelligence work.

You Have

• Deep understanding of the global child safety landscape, adversarial behavior online, and common vectors of minor exploitation (CSAM/CSAE, financial grooming, account takeovers).
• 7‑10 years of experience in Trust & Safety, Threat Intelligence, Digital Forensics, or Cybercrime Investigations (preferably within gaming, social media, or live‑streaming ecosystems).
• A bachelor’s degree in criminology, data analytics, cybersecurity, international relations, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience identifying sources for intelligence collection to identify risks in a gaming, social, or other media platform environment and building a collection plan.
• Proficiency in SQL or Python to query large datasets and isolate behavioral anomalies.
• Experience with OSINT tools and methodologies (e.g., Maltego, social media mapping, domain analysis).
• Native familiarity with modern gaming mechanics (in‑game economies, modding communities, cross‑play) and youth digital culture/slang.
• Proven ability to maintain personal well‑being and operational rigor while occasionally reviewing highly sensitive, distressing, or taboo content,

Annual Salary Range

$174,100 — $207,480 USD

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 benefits.

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.