You Will:

• Perform offensive security assessments: conducting full-stack security assessments across our entire technology stack, including web applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and backend systems.
• Drive detection engineering partnerships: collaborating with detection engineers through purple team exercises, attack simulations, and threat emulation to validate and improve detection coverage.
• Develop custom tools and frameworks: creating and maintaining security testing tools, BAS frameworks, and automation scripts that enable repeatable testing and quantifiable security improvements.
• Build security metrics: designing and implementing frameworks to measure security control effectiveness, detection coverage, and improvement over time through consistent testing methodologies.
• Research and innovate: staying current with latest attack techniques, tools, and methodologies while contributing to both offensive and defensive security improvements.
• Broadly collaborate: sharing knowledge across security teams and fostering a culture of continuous security improvement.

You Are:

• Collaborative: You thrive working with your direct team and cross-functional partners, especially in bridging the gap between offensive operations and detection engineering.
• Thoughtful of build vs. buy decisions: Comfortable with deploying and configuring Open Source software, but you also review what tools are available in the market to make informed decisions about tool selection and development.
• Comfortable with ambiguity: You can gather data and make informed decisions when there is no clear answer, especially when dealing with novel attack scenarios or detection challenges.
• Security-minded educator: You excel at translating complex technical findings into actionable insights for various stakeholders across the organization.
• Metrics-driven: You understand the importance of measuring security improvements and can develop frameworks to quantify the effectiveness of security controls and detection capabilities.
• Improvement-oriented: You actively seek opportunities to enhance both offensive capabilities and detection coverage, always thinking about the bigger security picture.
• Adaptable: You stay current with evolving threats and defense mechanisms, adjusting your approach as the security landscape changes.

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: 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 for benefits as described on this page .

Annual Salary Range

$196,750 — $243,290 USD

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.