Senior Engineering Manager - Age Assurance (Accounts) at Roblox

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. What You’ll Do: As an Senior Engineering Manager for the Age Assurance team, you will build industry leading vision and execution for scalable, adaptable and accurate age for every user on Roblox. You will sit at the intersection of high-scale distributed systems and machine learning, building the architecture that powers safe and age appropriate access and communication. You will not only drive the technical roadmap but also shape the long-term vision for how Roblox will work with various age regulations, build innovative in-house age estimation techniques with evolving age-fraud protection. This role is of high visibility, building greenfield projects (0->1) impacting every aspect of user experience globally. You will be working directly with a number of cross-functional partners from Product teams, legal, vendors to protect the platform. Specifically, your team will be responsible for the mission-critical systems that handle: • Building and deploying highly-scalable age estimation ML models for both behavioral and facial age estimation. • Creating scalable and privacy-preserving infrastructure to accurately provide user age information across all of Roblox. • Partnering with external vendors, internal leadership, and regulatory bodies in multiple countries to align on providing the leading age assurance mechanism for all age groups. • Building advanced fraud protections against evolving age fraud adversaries including deepfakes, presentation attacks etc. You Will: • Lead the Domain: Own the strategy and execution of the Age Assurance roadmap, ensuring reliable, scalable, and high-accuracy systems. • Manage Team Direction & Delivery: Oversee the daily execution of the engineering roadmap, ensuring the team efficiently delivers high-quality, reliable code on time. • Ensure Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as the primary engineering liaison, collaborating closely with Product Management, Finance, Legal/Compliance, and Risk teams to align on requirements, prioritize features, and ensure regulatory adherence. • Define Architectural Strategy: Set the long-term technical vision and architectural roadmap for the team and underlying services. Define and implement the engineering standards that ensure a consistently high quality bar across the group. • Grow and cultivate an Impactful Team: Attract, hire, mentor, and coach top-tier software engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, engineering excellence, and continuous learning. You Have: • 10+ years of hands-on experience in software development, with a focus on building and operating highly scalable distributed systems • 5+ years of direct experience managing and mentoring high-performing engineering teams including managing ML engineers. • Excellent communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical trade-offs and project status to technical peers, product managers, and executive leadership. • A strong track record of recruiting, developing, and retaining exceptional engineering talent. • Experience in the Identity domain : age assurance, compliance, vendor management, fraud detection is a big plus. • Experience building and scaling distributed systems and real-time fraud platforms at a global scale is a plus. 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$345,040—$399,420 USDRoles 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.