Experienced Project Manager Jobs in San Mateo, CA

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 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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

You Have

• 5+ years of software engineer experience operating production systems at scale.
• Expertise in Python or Golang.
• Experience working with ETL, metadata systems, or data governance solutions.
• Deep understanding of data privacy, security technologies, and data governance principles.
• Familiarity with privacy and regulatory frameworks such as GDPR, CCPA.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

You Are

• Collaborative: You thrive in a team environment and work well with cross-functional partners.
• Technically Curious: You enjoy diving deep into distributed systems, data architectures, and emerging privacy technologies.
• Ambitious: You are motivated to build flawless, secure experiences for millions of users.
• Comfortable with Ambiguity: You can navigate evolving requirements, make sound technical decisions, and create clarity in complex problem spaces.

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: $216,680—$269,170 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.

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.