Senior Security Data Engineer — Detection, Pipelines & IR

The Briefed; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 197,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Onsite campus perks

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Equity compensation

Job summary

Roblox is seeking a Senior Security Engineer on the Detection & Response (D&R) team to protect its user community and platform infrastructure. The role blends security engineering with software development, designing high‑fidelity detection logic, building scalable data pipelines, and responding to incidents in a hybrid work environment.

You will work across open source tooling, commercial security tools, and in‑house systems to safeguard enterprise and production environments, partnering with

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in Security Data Engineering, Detection Engineering, or Security Operations.
• Proven capability to build efficient, reliable security tools using Golang or Python.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and SQL for data infrastructure and queries.
• Solid understanding of risk, controls, incident post-mortems, and security monitoring.
• Collaborative development with PRs in shared codebases.

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Detection Engineering: lead effort to design, test, and deploy high‑fidelity detection rules with low false positives.
• Build and maintain scalable security data pipelines and contribute to internal security platforms.
• Participate in on-call rotations to maintain detection and response infrastructure availability and reliability.
• Foster cross‑functional security partnerships and pragmatic security architecture across teams.

Skills

Golang

Python

Security operations

Threat modeling

PRs on GitHub

Tools

Terraform

SQL

Snowflake

Kubernetes

Elastic

Job description

Roblox is seeking a Senior Security Engineer on the Detection & Response (D&R) team to protect its user community and platform infrastructure. The role blends security engineering with software development, designing high‑fidelity detection logic, building scalable data pipelines, and responding to incidents in a hybrid work environment.

You will work across open source tooling, commercial security tools, and in‑house systems to safeguard enterprise and production environments, partnering with