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Senior Privacy Engineer
Job at a glance
- Category
- Privacy
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Location
- San Mateo, CA
- Salary range
- $180,570
- Posted
- Aug 30, 2026
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Roblox is hiring a Senior Privacy Engineer in San Mateo, CA. This is a Privacy job in the governance, risk, and compliance field, with a posted range of $180,570. Review the full details below and apply directly with Roblox.
span 400; 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. span 400; 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. strong span 400; We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. span 400; 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 Privacy Engineer on the Security and Privacy GRC team, you will shepherd and grow Roblox s Privacy Review Program, the technical and process backbone that ensures privacy is engineered into every product before it ships. You will join the Security and Privacy GRC team, reporting to the Sr Engineering Manager for Privacy Governance and Operations. This is a hands-on privacy engineering role: you ll set standards for privacy-enhancing technologies, act as the go-to SME for policy-as-code, and partner closely with Product teams, Trust and Safety, Legal, and Regulatory Compliance as part of Roblox s broader cross-functional privacy program. You will: Shepherd and evolve the Privacy Review Program, designing consistent intake workflows, evaluation criteria, and documentation to systematically assess privacy risk across new products, features, and infrastructure changes. Develop standards and guidelines that enable product teams to adopt privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) such as differential privacy, k-anonymity, data minimization, and secure computation, with clear guidance on trade-offs and implementation patterns. Act as the Privacy SME for policy-as-code, translating privacy requirements and regulatory obligations into automated, enforceable controls embedded directly into engineering workflows and infrastructure. Partner cross-functionally with Regulatory Compliance, Trust and Safety, and Legal to align Privacy Review Program outcomes with broader compliance obligations and evolving global privacy frameworks. Drive privacy-by-design adoption across product and engineering organizations through self-service tooling, consultation,
Full responsibilities and requirements are on Roblox's application page.
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This job is based in San Mateo, CA on-site. Local candidates benefit from being close to Roblox's teams and regional hiring market. Confirm the exact in-office expectation and any relocation support with the employer.
About privacy jobs
Privacy jobs protect personal data across its lifecycle, from data mapping and DPIAs to individual-rights handling. AI systems are widening the scope of what privacy teams must review. Jobs like this one are typically evaluated against frameworks such as GDPR, CCPA and US state privacy laws, ISO/IEC 27701, and privacy-by-design practices.
How to position yourself for this privacy job
Strong candidates emphasize data mapping and inventories, privacy impact assessments, rights handling, and building privacy-by-design into products and AI systems. In your resume and outreach, tie your experience to how Roblox would apply GDPR, CCPA and US state privacy laws, ISO/IEC 27701, and privacy-by-design practices, and lead with concrete outcomes rather than duties.
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