Senior ML Infra Engineer for Safety Moderation Systems

Showcify, Inc.; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 279,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Full benefits

Job summary

Roblox is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Asset Safety team in San Mateo, CA. You will architect and build ML-driven safety systems and drive end-to-end production solutions that scale across billions of engagement hours.

You will lead with strong backend expertise, leverage streaming platforms like Kafka/Flink, and mentor peers while ensuring security and observability across platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and deploying large-scale ML infrastructure and distributed production systems.
• Deep backend engineering expertise in high-capacity microservices, advanced distributed architecture, scalable data storage and management, and event-driven asynchronous processing.
• Proven technical leadership with a track record of architecting, building, and deploying low-latency, distributed ML services to production end-to-end.
• Experience with streaming and messaging platforms (e.g., Apache Kafka, Apache Flink), end-to-end testing, CI/CD pipelines, security compliance, and comprehensive system observability.
• Hands-on experience with computer vision techniques and multi-modal architectures spanning image, audio, video, and 3D content modeling.
• Experience fine-tuning large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and optimize end-to-end ML-based safety moderation systems to detect and mitigate problematic content using scalable distributed architectures and event-driven, asynchronous workflows.
• Deliver production-grade, AI-driven safety products end-to-end in a dynamic environment, driving execution from initial ideation to deployment while aligning key cross-functional stakeholders.
• Drive technical roadmap decisions, implement robust observability and reliability practices, integrate strict security and compliance standards, and enforce rigorous testing and CI/CD pipelines while mentoring engineering team members.
• Partner closely with Moderation Operations, Product Management, Data Science, and partner engineering teams across Roblox to deliver cohesive safety solutions.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Microservices

Observability

CI/CD

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Job description

Roblox is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Asset Safety team in San Mateo, CA. You will architect and build ML-driven safety systems and drive end-to-end production solutions that scale across billions of engagement hours.

You will lead with strong backend expertise, leverage streaming platforms like Kafka/Flink, and mentor peers while ensuring security and observability across platforms.