Senior Cloud Security Engineer
- Salary
- $251,090 - $326,060
- Level
- Senior
Not stated in the posting: work type, visa.
Open. First seen 3 October 2026.
About the role
Roblox's standard text
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.
As a Senior Cloud Security Engineer, you will define and implement the security strategy and controls across our hybrid and multi-cloud environment. Embedded within the Platform Security team, you will operate with a high degree of autonomy, partnering closely with Infosec and Infrastructure teams to secure our cloud infrastructure. Your architectural decisions will directly impact the security of a global platform.
You Will:
- Create Paved Roads: Build innovative services and tooling that make the secure path the easiest path, enabling developers to deploy faster and safer.
- Engineer Self-Healing Infrastructure: Architect and scale systems that monitor our cloud posture and automatically enforce a self-healing security baseline.
- Design Secure-by-Default Blueprints: Partner deeply with infrastructure teams to bake threat modeling and secure-by-default patterns into the core DNA of our cloud environments.
- Implement Effective Guardrails: Deploy organizational security controls that protect our developers without slowing them down.
- Advance Detections: Write and optimize detections tailored specifically to our footprint.
You Have:
- 4+ years: of relevant professional experience.
- Experience writing and maintaining: code in at least one programming language such as Python, Golang or C#, and you are eager to learn new languages and technologies.
- Experience with: automation, IaC, system hardening, container security concepts, cloud security policy and observability.
- Deep understanding: of cloud service architecture and cloud security concepts.
- Familiarity with: with container orchestration systems, such as Kubernetes.
- Understanding of: network security concepts and best practices, ex: enabling secure connectivity between resources, implementing egress controls.
You Are:
- Collaborative: You love working with your direct team and cross-functional partners.
- Thoughtful of build vs. buy decisions: You can build solutions, but you also review what tools are available.
- Comfortable with ambiguity: You can gather data and make informed decisions when there is no clear answer.
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
$251,090—$326,060 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's standard text
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.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Kubernetes
Rare in Roblox's other 217 open postings.
Standard for security roles
Python
Common in security postings at any company.
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The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 13 open in Engineering. 1 was posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in April: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Golang (7 of 13), Python (7 of 13), C# (6 of 13), C++ (4 of 13), IAM (4 of 13), Linux (4 of 13), Java (3 of 13)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior GRC Analyst posted Oct 14
- Senior Security Software Engineer, Sandbox Platforms posted Sep 15
- Senior Software Engineer, Privacy Infrastructure posted Aug 19
- Principal Security Software Engineer, IAM posted Aug 12
- Senior Privacy Engineer posted Aug 6
- Principal Security GRC Analyst posted Jul 15
- Senior Security Software Engineer, IAM posted Jun 18
- Principal Enterprise Security Engineer posted Jun 9
- Senior Security Software Engineer, Vulnerability Management posted May 13
- Senior Security Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security posted May 7
- Senior Security Software Engineer, Application Security posted May 6
- Principal Security Software Engineer, Application Security posted Apr 8
From the team and dates on Roblox's own job board.
Salary context
7 other open postings titled Senior Cloud Security Engineer state a salary: median USD 169,600 to USD 225,000 a year.
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