Senior Threat Investigator, Safety Investigations

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 Threat Investigator on the Safety Investigations team, you will help lead Roblox’s deep-dive investigative capability for the most severe, complex, and externally significant safety matters. You will conduct actor-centric and network-centric investigations, proactively identify sophisticated threat actors and abuse patterns, and develop high-quality investigative work product that supports internal decision-making and, where appropriate, external law-enforcement engagement. The ideal candidate will have an exceptional investigations background, strong analytical tradecraft, and a demonstrated ability to connect fragmented internal and external signals into clear, defensible investigative findings. They will be an innovative self-starter, a collaborative partner across functions, and someone motivated by Roblox’s mission of connecting a billion people with optimism and civility. Through your work, you will become an expert in Roblox’s internal and external safety practices, advance our investigative capabilities and playbooks, and work across a variety of systems and data sources to surface, analyze, and ultimately disrupt high-risk actors, networks, and behaviors. Please note: This role will require reviewing graphic, controversial, and offensive content in accordance with Roblox’s handling policies. This role may also require participation in an on-call rotation during weekends and holidays. You Will Conduct deep-dive investigations into severe abuse on and around the platform, including cases involving child exploitation, violent extremism, organized criminal activity, and other complex abuse ecosystems. Perform actor-centric and network-centric investigations that connect activity across accounts, services, platforms, and other relevant data sources. Proactively hunt for threats, undetected abuse, and emerging risk patterns by leveraging internal datasets, open-source intelligence, and other investigative resources. Apply analytical rigor to investigations while identifying strategic opportunities to improve systems, tools, processes, and detection capabilities. Develop proactive leads from intelligence reporting, law enforcement indicators, media reporting, partner referrals, and open-source research. Draft professional investigative work product for internal and external audiences, supported by clear, concise, and multi-sourced evidence. Prepare complex referrals, supplements, strategic write-ups, and post-mortems that can withstand external scrutiny. Partner cross-functionally with Legal, Safety Intelligence, Law Enforcement Operations, Product, Engineering, Policy, and other teams to drive high-confidence safety outcomes. Translate investigative findings into concrete recommendations for policy, tooling, product, engineering, and operational improvements. Help build and mature investigative playbooks, templates, standards, and methodologies for the broader Safety Investigations function. Support especially sensitive, high-priority, and time-sensitive escalations with sound judgment, discretion, and urgency. Coach junior teammates on analytic tradecraft and investigative work. You Have 7+ years of experience conducting complex investigations in…