Principal Network Security Engineer
Principal engineer on Roblox's Network Security pod: identifies vulnerabilities across a global network of data centers and public clouds, designs and builds high-performance protective systems (proxies, load balancers, firewalls, IDS/IPS), and provides security design reviews. Core stack: Golang/C++, TCP/UDP/DNS, DPDK/eBPF.
- Compensation
- $326.1K–$385.1K / yr
- Location
- San Mateo, CA, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Principal
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Security
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 8+ years of relevant professional experience
- Write high-performance code for large-scale distributed services in at least one language such as Golang or C++
- Hands-on experience designing and building production-level networking/security services (L4/L7 proxies, load balancers, IDS/IPS, firewalls)
- In-depth knowledge of network routings and protocols (TCP/UDP, DHCP, DNS) and attack vectors, techniques, and remediations
- Collaborative, self-driving, comfortable with ambiguity, and eager to solve hard problems
Nice to have
- Experience with advanced packet processing technologies such as DPDK and eBPF
Full description
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.
Roblox runs a global scale network with a number of data centers and public clouds to provide services to millions of users, and creates a broad threat landscape. As a Principal Security Software Engineer on the Network Security pod, you will help shape and implement our network security strategy and controls. You'll have a big impact while collaborating with security and cross-functional teams to secure our networks, protect our services and platforms.
In this role, you’ll work closely with other people in the Information Security (InfoSec) team as well as partner with multiple Roblox infrastructure engineering teams.
You will
- Identify security vulnerabilities & gaps in our network infrastructure, propose solutions and drive engineering effort for implementation, partner with our infrastructure teams on improvements.
- Design, develop, and optimize novel solutions & systems using your software engineering skills and system thinking, to protect Roblox’s networks from external threats and internal risks.
- Provide design reviews & guidelines from network security perspective for Roblox’s tools, services, and platforms.
You have
- 8+ years: of relevant professional experience.
- Programming Proficiency: Able to write high-performance code for large scale distributed services with at least one programming language such as Golang or C++, and you are eager to learn new languages and technologies.
- Hands-on experience: Designing and building production level services in fields of networking and security, such as L4/L7 network proxies, load balancers, IDS/IPS, firewalls, etc.
- In-depth knowledge of: Network routings and protocols (TCP/UDP, DHCP, DNS, etc.), attack vectors, techniques, and remediations.
- Experience with: advanced packet processing technologies and frameworks, such as DPDK, eBPF, is a big plus.