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full-timeSafety Threat Investigator, Safety Investigations
Roblox · San Mateo, CA, United States
Roblox operates a platform where users create, share, and play three‑dimensional experiences ranging from games to social spaces. As a Safety Threat Investigator on the Safety Investigations team, you will handle incoming reports of serious safety concerns such as child exploitation, violent extremism, organized fraud, compromised accounts and coordinated abuse. Daily work includes gathering and preserving evidence, applying structured investigative methods, maintaining accurate documentation, and determining when a case needs deeper attribution or escalation to specialized units. You will produce clear case summaries for partners like Legal, Trust & Safety, and law‑enforcement contacts, track patterns that inform policy or product improvements, and mentor junior investigators. The role may require reviewing graphic or offensive material and participating in an on‑call rotation during weekends and holidays. It suits candidates with prior investigative experience, strong analytical and writing skills, comfort handling sensitive content, and the ability to work independently while collaborating across teams.
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 Safety Threat Investigator on the Safety Investigations team, you will primarily support Roblox’s Core Investigations capability: the operational backbone for repeatable, high-sensitivity matters that require speed, consistency, evidence discipline, and strong documentation. You will independently manage investigations from intake through resolution and produce clear, defensible work product that supports high-confidence safety decisions. You will also identify when a matter requires deeper attribution, network-centric analysis, cross-platform research, proactive threat hunting, or externally meaningful work product, and partner with or escalate to Specialized Investigations as appropriate. At the CL9 level, you will own a defined safety-risk domain or pod-level workstream, improve investigative processes and standards, serve as a subject-matter expert, and mentor other investigators with limited day-to-day oversight. Please note: This role may require reviewing graphic, controversial, and offensive content in accordance with Roblox’s handling policies. It may also require participation in an on-call rotation during weekends and holidays. You Will Own repeatable, high-sensitivity investigations involving serious safety threats, including child exploitation, violent extremism, organized fraud, compromised accounts, coordinated abuse, and other high-risk matters. Apply structured investigative methods, evidence checklists, common templates, and approved data pulls to produce timely and consistent case outcomes. Gather, preserve, analyze, and corroborate evidence while maintaining accurate provenance, confidentiality, and auditability. Define investigative questions, scope, hypotheses, evidence plans, milestones, risk controls, and exit criteria for sensitive or ambiguous matters. Conduct focused account, entity, and timeline linkage as needed, and identify when a case requires deeper attribution, network mapping, or cross-platform investigation. Escalate cases to Specialized Investigations when they develop meaningful attribution complexity, broader network risk, external actionability, or a need for deeper synthesis. Prepare clear case summaries and standardized downstream work product for partners such as Legal, Safety Intelligence, Trust & Safety Operations, Law Enforcement Operations, or NCMEC, as appropriate. Track recurring patterns, operational pain points, and escalation trends, and translate findings into recommendations for Policy, Product, Engineering, Detection, Legal, and Safety Operations. Lead or contribute to durable improvements such as investigation playbooks, evidence standards, intake criteria, triage processes, tooling requirements, and quality-review mechanisms. Represent Safety Investigations with cross-functional stakeholders, explain and defend investigative decisions, navigate disagreement, and maintain alignment on sensitive matters. Mentor investigators, provide constructive feedback on casework, and raise the team’s standards for investigative rigor, documentation, and inclusive collaboration. Maintain strong case hygiene, document decisions and approvals, and ensure investigations are closed with clear outcomes, residual-risk ownership, and follow-up actions. Deliver rigorous, timely, and consistent outcomes on high-sensitivity investigations. Apply sound judgment in triage, lane assignment, escalation, and case closure. Improve the team’s investigative methods, operating processes, templates, and quality standards. Convert case findings into concrete safety improvements and upstream action. Build trust with cross-functional partners and mentor others to strengthen the team’s investigative capability. You Have 4+ years conducting sensitive investigations involving severe safety, abuse, fraud, security, threat, or other high-risk matters. Demonstrated ability to independently manage investigations end-to-end, including intake, scoping, evidence development, analysis, findings, recommendations, and follow-through. Experience using SQL and/or Python, large datasets, and open-source intelligence in an investigative context. Strong investigative judgment and the ability to distinguish facts, inferences, allegations,
| Role | Safety Threat Investigator, Safety Investigations |
|---|---|
| Company | Roblox |
| Location | San Mateo, CA, United States |
| Compensation | Not disclosed |
| Posted | 2026-10-01 |
| Deadline | Rolling |
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- 1ApplicationSubmit your resume through the apply link.
- 2ScreeningRecruiter reviews your background against the role.
- 3AssessmentA technical test, assignment, or coding round, depending on the role.
- 4Interview(s)One or more rounds with the hiring team.
- 5OfferOffer letter with compensation and start date.
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