Principal Security Software Engineer, Identity and Access Management

As Principal Security Software Engineer on the IAM team you will be a founding member of the team. You will provide impact by designing systems that provide identity and access management for users and workloads. Your work will not only dramatically improve Roblox's security posture, but also improve workforce productivity.

You Will:

• Help us solve a variety of unique IAM security challenges at scale.
• Have the independence, opportunity and the end-to-end responsibility to develop security services within the Roblox infrastructure ecosystem.
• Shape the team vision for products, define the roadmap and lead the execution work by example. You build it, you run it.
• Build relationships with the other teams in the Security organization, but also across the company, with teams in Engineering and Product.
• Help grow the team by mentoring existing team members and supporting the recruiting effort.

You Have:

• Deep technical understanding of an area of IAM (e.g. identity, authentication, authorization, or identity lifecycle management)
• 8+ years of relevant professional experience building scalable, available, distributed backend applications.
• Proficient in at least one object-oriented programming language (Python, Java, Go C++, C# .NET).
• Knowledgeable with REST API, design patterns, and scalable containerized systems and microservices.
• Experience mentoring junior and senior engineers and leading their work.
• Experience with authentication and authorization for user and workload identities

You Might Have:

• Experience with systems used for authorization (e.g. Okta FGA, Authzed, PlainID, etc.)
• Experience with identity governance tools (e.g. Sailpoint, Okta IGA, etc.)
• Experience implementing scalable identity lifecycle management
• Familiarity with Multi-Factor Authentication and Single Sign On
• Experience rolling out passwordless authentication (i.e. PassKeys, Beyond Identity)
• Familiarity with PKI, Public Certificate Authorities, OpenSSL.
• Familiarity with Active Directory.
• Experience with the Hashicorp Stack (e.g. Vault).

You Are:

• A great technical leader: You have experience leading the technical work to deliver automation for infrastructure or product.
• Team-oriented: a collaborative team player who enjoys working with others.
• Passionate about security: You have experience with security, or you are curious about it and you are looking to grow in the space.