Principal Application Security Engineer

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. 

At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 

A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

The Principal Application Security Engineer will play a formative role in InfoSec's growth in Product Security where we work with teams early in their process to provide secure design solutions and standards. You may provide in-depth pen testing, threat modeling, or code reviews. You will also assist and lead the evaluation and integration of DevSecOps tools and participate in InfoSec's on-call rotation.

As a foundational member on the team, you'll take on company wide engagement projects with opportunities across different tech stacks, driving remediation projects with other engineering leaders to resolve anti-patterns. You'll create and evolve the technical vision for scaling out the way application security is conducted across the company. You'll mentor and lead application security engineers as we grow the team and shape the future of application security and secure development at Roblox.

You Have:

• 8+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Expertise in breaking down security technical problems and solutions to engineering and non-engineering leadership.
• Expertise in building relationships and influencing partner principal engineers across teams.
• Experience with software and/or infrastructure architecture.
• Experience defining secure architectures.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Golang or C#, and you want to learn new languages and technologies.
• Some experience with at least one scripting language (Bash, Lua, Python).
• Knowledge of cryptography, PKI, TLS and practical implementation of the same.
• Performed threat modeling.
• Experience of common code and network vulnerability types, impacts, and remediations.
• Experience with Secure Software Development Life Cycles. Knowledge of product security and integrations.
• BA/BS degree in a relevant engineering field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience operationalizing and communicating security best practices within a large-scale Internet environment.
• Familiarity with network and server hardware.
• Knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems and security.

You Might Have:

• Experience with some compliance reporting, especially in PCI and ITGC. Familiarity with Privacy (GDPR, CA AB-375, and COPPA)
• Relevant certifications, i.e. OWASP, CSSLP, CEH CISSP, GSEC, GIAC, CISM, Stanford Advanced Security Certificate Program, etc.
• Experience with AWS security (IAM, EC2, VPC, S3, etc.) and cloud best practices.
• Experience with network reconnaissance.
• Experience with software and/or security architecture.
• Experience with microservice architecture.

You Will:

• Direct and assist Product Security guidance and process.
• Define secure architectures
• Lead organizational and company wide security initiatives to resolve deep-seated security anti-patterns
• Create cross company relationships for accomplishing security goals
• Empower cross org and team security fixes for Trust-by-Design security work, cross-functional engagements
• Security Education and Training - preparation of materials and communication through diverse parts of the company. Contribution to security awareness programming.
• Shape strategy and expansion of our automation of Application Security
• Build and implement strategies and tools for scaling application and product security out
• Design and implement the security framework into CI/CD.
• Test application code with the OWASP Testing Methodology

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.Annual Salary Range$315,850—$383,910 USD

You’ll Love: 

• Industry-leading compensation package
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• A rewarding 401k program
• Flexible vacation policy
• Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy 
• Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
• At Roblox HQ: 
• Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
• Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
• Annual CalTrain Go Pass

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