Why Account Authentication:

As a Tech Lead on Roblox’s Account Authentication team, you will provide technical leadership to 4-6 ICs in working cross organizationally on the design, implementation and landing of HTTP and GRPC services critical to Roblox user sign-up, sign-in, token authentication, and logout.  We work at large scale maintaining and extending critical infrastructure supporting 3M+ (and growing) qps.

As an Account Auth team we act as the gateway to the metaverse. When we do our job well, Roblox users will have a seamless experience regardless of whether they are using a PC, Android phone, or iOS tablet. Upon joining Roblox, you will report to the Senior Manager of the Account Authentication team and will be based in our San Mateo HQ in a hybrid working model. #LI-Hybrid

You Will:

• Chart the future direction of our backend efforts. We are presently considering the future direction of our backend infrastructure. We want to move away from C#. We want to migrate to a new persistence layers. New models of piping data through our systems. As the lead of our team’s backend reliability and scalability efforts, we would look to you to provide structure and rigor to those conversations.
• Oversee the creation, monitoring and communication of our team’s production SLO’s.
• Build critical infrastructure and features to ensure that user authentication is seamless, secure, and reliable.
• Work cross organizationally. We collaborate with teams and roles throughout Roblox and get a big picture view of how Roblox works.
• Learn new skills. We are using ML and Cryptography to make account authentication better.

You Have:

• 10+ years of experience in software development.
• 5+ years of experience working on Account Authentication features and protocols.
• Led technical efforts landing and maintaining large-scale, high availability systems.
• Worked cross organizationally to land a project.
• Familiarity with C#. Go, or Rust.
• BA/BS in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, or other technical fields is ideal.
• Previous experience with: GRPC, Protobuf, React, CockroachDb, Kafka, Nomad, Consul, and Vault.

You Are:

• Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger.
• Proactive: You can speak in detail about problems that you identified and solutions that you drove to launch.
• Conscientious: You make sure that all the little things get done before you push code to production. You don’t consider a project done if it doesn’t have tests, dashboards, playbooks, communications to partner teams, and alerts.
• Passionate about preserving user trust and safety.