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Senior Privacy Software Engineer

Roblox

Role at a glance

Category
Privacy
Work arrangement
On-site
Location
San Mateo, CA
Salary range
$216,680
Posted
Jun 24, 2026
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Roblox is hiring a Senior Privacy Software Engineer in San Mateo, CA. This is a Privacy role in the governance, risk, and compliance field, with a posted range of $216,680. Review the full details below and apply directly with Roblox.

span 400; 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. span 400; 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. strong span 400; We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. span 400; 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. As a Senior Privacy Software Engineer on the Privacy Infrastructure team, you will design and build the foundational platforms, services, and controls that enable Roblox to protect user data and meet global privacy obligations at scale. You will develop privacy-by-design solutions that support data governance, user privacy rights, data discovery, retention, auditing, and regulatory compliance across a rapidly growing ecosystem of products and services. This role sits at the intersection of distributed systems, data platforms, security, and privacy engineering. You will partner closely with engineers, product teams, security, legal, and policy stakeholders to build scalable privacy infrastructure that is deeply integrated into Roblox s development workflows. Your work will directly influence how we responsibly manage data for millions of users while enabling innovation across the platform. You Will Design and build scalable privacy infrastructure that enables Roblox to discover, govern, protect, and manage personal data at scale. Develop backend services, APIs, and data pipelines that embed privacy controls into engineering workflows and enable fulfillment of user privacy rights at global scale. Analyze large-scale data systems and data flows to identify privacy risks and improve data governance and data lifecycle management. Build monitoring, auditing, and reporting capabilities to ensure privacy controls are reliable, measurable, and effective. Craft strategic approaches to data privacy and security across the platform. You Have 5+ years of software engineer experience operating production systems at scale. Expertise in Python or Golang.

Full responsibilities and requirements are on Roblox's application page.

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Location and market context

This role is based in San Mateo, CA on-site. Local candidates benefit from being close to Roblox's teams and regional hiring market. Confirm the exact in-office expectation and any relocation support with the employer.

About privacy roles

Privacy roles protect personal data across its lifecycle, from data mapping and DPIAs to individual-rights handling. AI systems are widening the scope of what privacy teams must review. Roles like this one are typically evaluated against frameworks such as GDPR, CCPA and US state privacy laws, ISO/IEC 27701, and privacy-by-design practices.

How to position yourself for this privacy role

Strong candidates emphasize data mapping and inventories, privacy impact assessments, rights handling, and building privacy-by-design into products and AI systems. In your resume and outreach, tie your experience to how Roblox would apply GDPR, CCPA and US state privacy laws, ISO/IEC 27701, and privacy-by-design practices, and lead with concrete outcomes rather than duties.

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