Senior Cloud Security Engineer
Company websiteroblox.com (Roblox, opens in new tab)
Base salary $251,090 to $326,060
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Mateo, CA
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- LocationSan Mateo, CA
- WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (1 h ago) · observed since
About this job
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 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.
Source: Roblox on Greenhouse · View original posting (opens in new tab)
Pay in context
This role's base floor ($251,090) is above 83% of the 522 IT & Security roles in California listed on this site. Their median floor is $180,000; the middle half runs from $143,250 to $220,000.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 6, 2026.
This listingSenior Cloud Security Engineer$251,090 to $326,060
Senior Security Software Engineer, IAM$251,090 to $306,730
Senior Payments Compliance Manager$246,040 to $295,800
Senior Software Engineer, Metric Platform$243,290 to $295,250
Senior Software Engineer - Network Transport$243,290 to $295,250
Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Compute$243,290 to $295,250
Senior Software Engineer, 3D Systems$243,290 to $295,250
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Senior Cloud Security Engineer (this listing) | $251,090 - $326,060 |
| Senior Security Software Engineer, IAM | $251,090 - $306,730 |
| Senior Payments Compliance Manager | $246,040 - $295,800 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Metric Platform | $243,290 - $295,250 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Network Transport | $243,290 - $295,250 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Compute | $243,290 - $295,250 |
| Senior Software Engineer, 3D Systems | $243,290 - $295,250 |
Observed changes
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- First observed on the employer's board
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-06-10
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: San Mateo, CA, United States
$251,090—$326,060 USD
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- The pay is an annual base salary in US dollars with a minimum of at least $100,000.
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