About this role
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.
WHY DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS?
The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency and acumen of making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product verticals, we use this extensive tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products and measure impact on our community of players and developers.
WHY AUTHENTICATION & SECURITY?
Authentication & Security sits at the intersection of trust, product, and growth. The team builds the systems that allow users to sign in, recover, and protect their accounts with confidence, while defending the platform against account takeovers, credential abuse, and fraud at massive scale. This role is an opportunity to shape a high-stakes product area where small changes in friction or protection can meaningfully affect sign-ups and user frequency. You will act as a strategic leader, helping make authentication and account-recovery flows more seamless and secure while strengthening our systems against abuse.
You Will:
• Shape Authentication & Security roadmaps with strategic data science guidance across account creation, login, account recovery, and account protection features.
• Identify and size the highest-impact levers to improve authentication success rates, reduce account takeover rates, and minimize unnecessary user friction.
• Design and evaluate feature experiments across sign-up, login, and account-recovery funnels.
• Quantify tradeoffs between security friction and user protection, and assess how each influences downstream engagement and retention.
• Develop evaluation metrics and ground-truth labeling strategies to strengthen our account security detection models.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Policy, Legal, and UX Research to turn ambiguous problems into clear decisions.
• Translate friction points in the authenticatio