Senior ML Infrastructure Engineer for Global Asset Safety

Roblox; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Roblox in San Mateo seeks a Senior Software Engineer on the Asset Safety team to lead hands-on development of resilient, scalable systems that keep millions of user-generated assets safe. You will tackle complex problems across 3D content, code, images, and video, delivering end-to-end safety solutions at platform scale.

The role demands deep backend engineering, experience with distributed architectures, streaming systems like Kafka/Flink, and mentoring teammates while enforcing security,

Qualifications

• Backend engineer with 5+ years in large-scale ML systems.
• Experience with streaming and messaging platforms.
• Knowledge of security and observability best practices.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build scalable ML-based safety moderation systems.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with PM, data science, and Ops.
• Deliver production-grade safety products end-to-end with CI/CD and testing.

Skills

ML safety

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Low-latency ML

Observability

Kafka/Flink

VLMs

Mentoring

Tools

Apache Kafka

Apache Flink

CI/CD tooling

Security tooling

Job description

Roblox in San Mateo seeks a Senior Software Engineer on the Asset Safety team to lead hands-on development of resilient, scalable systems that keep millions of user-generated assets safe. You will tackle complex problems across 3D content, code, images, and video, delivering end-to-end safety solutions at platform scale.

The role demands deep backend engineering, experience with distributed architectures, streaming systems like Kafka/Flink, and mentoring teammates while enforcing security,