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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.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
As a Senior member of the Security Operations team, you will serve as the Incident Response Program Lead at Roblox headquarters. In this pivotal role, you will hold the ultimate responsibility for building, improving, and scaling our SIRT capabilities across people, process, and technology. You will be the architect of our response maturity, moving us beyond ad-hoc firefighting into a structured, highly orchestrated operation. While you will still be hands-on during events, your primary focus will be force multiplying: ensuring that our alert pipeline, response procedures, tooling and capabilities integrate deeply with the rest of the company. You will work directly with leadership to influence the roadmap for the Security Incident Response Team, operate cohesively with SOC operations and ensure our team is equipped to protect Roblox’s platform, developers, and millions of users.
You Will
- Lead the SIRT Program: Own the strategy and execution of the Incident Response program. Define success metrics, identify maturity gaps, and drive projects that scale our capabilities (People, Process, Technology).
- Command Security Incidents: Serve as an Incident Commander for high-severity events, ensuring threats are mitigated with speed and professionalism.
- Build & Scale Process: Create and maintain the "source of truth" for response—developing comprehensive runbooks, Incident Response Plans (IRPs), and workflows that standardize excellence across the team.
- Drive Automation & Technology: Be a driving force in SOAR and response tooling. Identify manual toil and ruthlessly automate it to free up time for high-value hunting.
- IR Mentorship & Training: Elevate the skills of the broader team. Design tabletop exercises, conduct post-incident reviews (blameless post-mortems), and ensure lessons learned are fed back into the program.
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Become best friends with Legal, Privacy, Comms, HR and Engineering teams to ensure our incident response processes are legally sound and technically integrated.
- Threat Hunt: Lead and participate in proactive threat hunting initiatives, using intelligence to hypothesis-test our environment against advanced adversaries.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience: 8+ years of experience across Infosec, IT, Infra/SRE, and/or Incident Response.
- Specialization: 5+ years of experience specifically in Security Incident Response roles.
- Program Building: Demonstrated experience not just running incidents, but building the program capabilities that support them. You have created IRPs, defined and maintained severity matrices, and influenced IR policy to meet the latest and best standards.
- Incident Command: Proven ability to exist in and manage chaos. You have led enterprise-wide incidents and can confidently brief executive leadership during crises.
- Technical Proficiency: Deep hands-on experience with security stack components (SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS, SOAR). You know how to tune these tools to reduce noise and increase signal.
- Framework Knowledge: Proficiency with Incident Response frameworks (NIST, SANS, Cyber Kill Chain, MITRE ATT&CK) and the ability to operationalize them.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field; advanced degree preferred or equivalent experience.
COMPENSATION
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: $193,930—$205,570 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.
INTRODUCTION
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.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
As a Senior member of the Security Operations team, you will serve as the Incident Response Program Lead at Roblox headquarters. In this pivotal role, you will hold the ultimate responsibility for building, improving, and scaling our SIRT capabilities across people, process, and technology. You will be the architect of our response maturity, moving us beyond ad-hoc firefighting into a structured, highly orchestrated operation. While you will still be hands-on during events, your primary focus will be force multiplying: ensuring that our alert pipeline, response procedures, tooling and capabilities integrate deeply with the rest of the company. You will work directly with leadership to influence the roadmap for the Security Incident Response Team, operate cohesively with SOC operations and ensure our team is equipped to protect Roblox’s platform, developers, and millions of users.
You Will
- Lead the SIRT Program: Own the strategy and execution of the Incident Response program. Define success metrics, identify maturity gaps, and drive projects that scale our capabilities (People, Process, Technology).
- Command Security Incidents: Serve as an Incident Commander for high-severity events, ensuring threats are mitigated with speed and professionalism.
- Build & Scale Process: Create and maintain the "source of truth" for response—developing comprehensive runbooks, Incident Response Plans (IRPs), and workflows that standardize excellence across the team.
- Drive Automation & Technology: Be a driving force in SOAR and response tooling. Identify manual toil and ruthlessly automate it to free up time for high-value hunting.
- IR Mentorship & Training: Elevate the skills of the broader team. Design tabletop exercises, conduct post-incident reviews (blameless post-mortems), and ensure lessons learned are fed back into the program.
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Become best friends with Legal, Privacy, Comms, HR and Engineering teams to ensure our incident response processes are legally sound and technically integrated.
- Threat Hunt: Lead and participate in proactive threat hunting initiatives, using intelligence to hypothesis-test our environment against advanced adversaries.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience: 8+ years of experience across Infosec, IT, Infra/SRE, and/or Incident Response.
- Specialization: 5+ years of experience specifically in Security Incident Response roles.
- Program Building: Demonstrated experience not just running incidents, but building the program capabilities that support them. You have created IRPs, defined and maintained severity matrices, and influenced IR policy to meet the latest and best standards.
- Incident Command: Proven ability to exist in and manage chaos. You have led enterprise-wide incidents and can confidently brief executive leadership during crises.
- Technical Proficiency: Deep hands-on experience with security stack components (SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS, SOAR). You know how to tune these tools to reduce noise and increase signal.
- Framework Knowledge: Proficiency with Incident Response frameworks (NIST, SANS, Cyber Kill Chain, MITRE ATT&CK) and the ability to operationalize them.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field; advanced degree preferred or equivalent experience.
COMPENSATION
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: $193,930—$205,570 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.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Senior Security Operations Engineer
Align your credentials to U.S. specialty occupation standards
Your Australian cybersecurity degree and certifications like CISSP or CISM directly support the specialty occupation requirement. Get your transcripts assessed by a NACES-approved evaluator so employers can confirm degree equivalency before filing your LCA.
Target employers with existing security clearance pipelines
Defense contractors, financial institutions, and cloud infrastructure firms regularly hire security operations engineers and already understand the E-3 process. Prioritize roles where the employer has an internal immigration team, since LCA certification moves faster with an experienced filer.
Verify E-Verify enrollment before accepting an offer
STEM-adjacent security roles at federal contractors often require E-Verify enrollment as a contract condition. Confirm your prospective employer is enrolled before the offer stage, not after, to avoid delays between LCA certification and your consulate appointment.
Negotiate LCA wage level into your offer discussion
The DOL requires your offered wage to meet the prevailing wage for your SOC code and work location. Ask HR which wage level they're filing at early, since Level I wages can trigger RFE-equivalent issues at the consulate if your role description reflects senior responsibilities.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork
From DOL LCA submission through DS-160 preparation and consulate documentation, Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service manages each step. This reduces back-and-forth with your employer's HR and keeps the timeline tight between offer acceptance and your interview date.
Prepare for nonimmigrant intent questions specific to security clearance roles
Consular officers sometimes scrutinize long-tenure security roles for immigrant intent signals. Bring documentation showing the two-year E-3 period, your employer's renewal history, and a clear statement of your temporary work objective to address this proactively at interview.
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Find Senior Security Operations Engineer JobsSenior Security Operations Engineer E-3 Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Senior Security Operations Engineer jobs that offer E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Australian professionals searching for U.S. roles with E-3 sponsorship. Rather than filtering through general job listings, you can search by role and visa type to surface employers already familiar with the E-3 process. Security operations roles appear across financial services, cloud infrastructure, and government-adjacent sectors, all of which regularly sponsor this visa category.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Senior Security Operations Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes. Senior Security Operations Engineer positions require at minimum a bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information systems, or a closely related field, which satisfies the E-3 specialty occupation definition. Roles involving threat detection, incident response architecture, or SOC team leadership consistently meet this standard. Your employer's LCA job description must reflect these degree-specific duties to support the filing.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Australian security professionals?
The E-3 has a 10,500-visa annual allocation that has never been exhausted, so there's no lottery and no random selection risk. You can apply directly at a U.S. consulate in Australia after your employer's LCA is certified, often within weeks of an offer. The H-1B requires lottery selection and a wait until October 1 for status to begin. For security engineers with an Australian passport, the E-3 is a substantially faster and more predictable path.
Can I switch employers mid-E-3 if a better security role comes up?
Yes, but the new employer must file a fresh LCA with the DOL and you'll need to attend a new consulate appointment or apply for a change of status if you're already inside the U.S. There's no portability provision like the H-1B's AC21. Plan for a gap of several weeks between your last day and your new E-3 being active, and confirm your new employer is prepared to move quickly on the LCA.
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