Senior Threat Investigator, Safety Investigations

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.

• 7+ years of experience conducting complex investigations in law enforcement, intelligence, trust and safety, cybersecurity, or an adjacent field.
• Significant experience conducting deep-dive, attribution-focused, or threat-led investigations involving sophisticated actors, broader networks, or cross-platform harms.
• Advanced Proficiency using SQL and/or Python, large datasets, and open-source intelligence in an investigative context.
• Strong experience synthesizing fragmented evidence into clear, defensible investigative narratives and recommendations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce polished work product and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong judgment in navigating legal, policy, reputational, and operational considerations in sensitive investigative matters.
• Agility to navigate ambiguity, resilience to overcome obstacles, and the internal drive to manage multiple high-profile, time-sensitive initiatives in a dynamic environment.
• A track record of proactively identifying gaps, developing new investigative approaches, and improving operational effectiveness over time.
• Unwavering integrity, collegiality, and grit.

Annual Salary Range

$144,620 — $174,100 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.