Senior Security Software Engineer, IAM

Roblox; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 269,170 - 326,060; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Roblox is seeking a Senior Security Software Engineer to enhance identity and access management for both human and AI agents. The role emphasizes building secure systems that define AI credentials and permissions. Candidates must have 4+ years in backend applications and proficiency in programming languages such as Python or Java.

The position offers comprehensive benefits, including competitive salary ranging from $269,170 to $326,060 annually. The work environment promotes a hybrid working schedule with mandatory onsite presence during the week.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant professional experience building scalable, distributed backend applications.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Java, Go, C++, or C# .NET.
• AI fluency and understanding of AI identity and permissions.

Responsibilities

• Define how AI agents get credentials and permissions.
• Design and implement scalable IAM solutions for hybrid environments.
• Build robust authentication and authorization mechanisms for workloads.

Skills

Scalable distributed backend applications

Python

Java

Go

C++

C# .NET

AI tools

REST APIs

Policy enforcement frameworks

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

Privileged Access Management (PAM)

Access control models

Job description

As a Senior Security Software Engineer on the IAM team at Roblox, you'll build the next generation of identity and access management – defining how both humans and AI agents get identity, authenticate, and receive access to Roblox's production infrastructure. As AI agents become first-class actors in our systems, you'll design the tooling and policy that governs what they can do, how they prove who they are, and how we keep that access safe at scale. You'll also continue to evolve our workload authentication, privileged access management, and secure golden path for developers. Your work will directly shape the security posture of our entire production environment and set the standard for agentic IAM across the industry.

Responsibilities

• Design Identity and Access for AI Agents: You will define how AI agents get credentials, receive scoped permissions, and have their sessions managed throughout their lifecycle – pioneering the patterns for agentic identity in production.
• Engineer Hybrid Production IAM at Scale: You will design and implement scalable IAM solutions for Roblox's hybrid production environment, spanning on-premises and cloud infrastructure, ensuring secure and efficient access for humans, workloads, and AI agents across the entire ecosystem.
• Develop and Manage Workload Authentication & Authorization: You will build robust authentication and authorization mechanisms for workloads and services accessing production environments, enforcing least privilege and secure access controls.
• Establish the Secure Golden Path for Development: You will develop and maintain a streamlined, secure golden path framework that empowers developers to build tools and services with appropriate IAM controls baked in by default.
• Have the independence, opportunity, and end-to-end responsibility to develop security services within the Roblox infrastructure ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant professional experience building scalable, distributed backend applications.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Java, Go, C++, or C# .NET.
• AI fluency: You actively use AI tools in your daily workflow, understand LLM capabilities and limitations, and can reason about what it means to give an AI agent an identity and permissions.
• Knowledge of REST APIs, design patterns, and scalable containerized systems and microservices.
• Experience mentoring or leading the technical work of other engineers.
• Familiarity with policy and identity frameworks like OPA, Topaz, SPIFFE/SPIRE, or similar technologies used for policy enforcement, workload attestation, and identity federation in cloud-native environments.
• Experience with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) – design, implementation, or maintenance of PKI solutions.
• Experience with Privileged Access Management (PAM) – implementing or maintaining PAM solutions to control, monitor, and audit privileged access within production environments.
• Familiarity with access control models such as Role-Based (RBAC), Attribute-Base, or Risk-Based Access Control.

Benefits and Compensation

• Annual Salary Range: $269,170 – $326,060 USD (base pay).
• Equity compensation and benefits are available to all full‑time employees (details on the benefits page).

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.