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# Moderation Escalation Specialist at Roblox

- **Company:** Roblox
- **Location:** Gurugram Haryana, India
- **Posted:** 2026-11-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-03
- **Apply:** https://careers.roblox.com/jobs/8327882?gh_jid=8327882

## Job description

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.

Roblox’s Safety Operations - Moderation Product Support team is dedicated to protecting our users and developers from individuals who want to cause harm on our platform, within the online gaming environment. The Moderation Operations team are subject matter experts for content safety policies, and apply their knowledge to empower moderation scale across the Roblox platform. This is a critical team for our users, developers, and creators!

The Escalation Specialist role will focus on three key areas: improving the service Roblox provides for the internal safety escalations from our scaled content moderation systems, serving as an authoritative subject matter expert when high-impact users and developers are moderated, and providing policy teams with exceptional insights regarding escalation trends and root causes.

Please note: This role may review graphic, controversial, and sometimes offensive content in line with Roblox’s policies.

You will report to the Senior Manager, Moderation Escalations

You will:

- Act as Policy Enforcement SME and own high-visibility safety escalations end-to-end, analyzing and assessing content against Roblox community standards and internal procedure guidelines;
- Communicate effectively with internal customers (leadership up to Roblox c-suite) and cross-functional stakeholders, performing comprehensive analysis of ambiguous incidents and represent the Safety org’s final say for HIU (high-impact user) moderation;
- Manage, maintain, and develop a highly effective escalations process that meets or exceeds relevant service level agreements;
- Coordinate with cross-functional partners and a large team of Roblox moderation agents and their respective staff; implement and maintain standard operating procedures for moderation processes;
- Analyze operational data and conduct root cause analysis to identify trends, bottlenecks, and optimization opportunities, crafting recommendations for improvement;
- This role will require on-call work at weekends on a rotational basis;
- This role will involve exposure to graphic and/or objectionable content;

You Have:

- 3+ years of experience responding to incidents or escalations at a gaming, social media or other communications platform company;
- Familiarity with T&S risk domains (e.g., child safety, moderation evasion, systemic abuse, social engineering);
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams, including company leadership;
- Experience on a trust and safety team and/or have worked closely with policy or content moderation.
- An interest in online safety, policy development, regulations and emerging trends;
- Experience red teaming or evaluating generative AI, LLMs, or automated moderation systems;
- Strong project management skills, prioritization acumen, ability to flex across multiple projects, build processes from the ground up.

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.

## About Roblox

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Roblox is a global platform where millions of people create, play, and connect in immersive 3D experiences built by a community of developers and creators.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: RBLX)
- **Headquarters**: San Mateo, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2004
- **Founders**: David Baszucki and Erik Cassel

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Online gaming platform and creation system
- Target customers: B2C (players, especially children and teens) and B2B (creators/developers who build experiences)
- Mission: “Reimagine the way people come together” and “connect a billion people with optimism and civility”

## Products & Services
- **Roblox Platform**: An immersive 3D experience where users can play millions of user-generated games and social experiences. Accessible on mobile, console, desktop, and web.
- **Roblox Studio**: Free, powerful creation tool that allows developers to build, publish, and monetize their own 3D experiences using Lua scripting.
- **Roblox Economy**: Virtual currency (Robux) used to purchase in-experience items, avatar accessories, and developer products. Developers earn real money through the Developer Exchange program.
- **Safety & Moderation Systems**: Multiple layers of content moderation including text filtering, safe training data, and Vision-Language Models to enforce Community Standards.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: As a public company, market cap fluctuates. Recent reports place it around $30–35 billion (early 2026).
- **Key Metric**: Over 150 million daily active users (DAU) and 45 million concurrent users (greater than the population of Canada). Annual revenue for 2024 was approximately $3.5 billion.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Public shareholders; major institutional investors include Vanguard, BlackRock, and others. Strategic partners include Sony, Walmart, and various entertainment brands.
- **Growth Signals**: Scaling toward a goal of 1 billion users; expanding into AI with generative AI and 3D foundation models; opening a new immersive Careers Experience on the platform; strong early-career hiring and internship programs.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Massive Network Effects**: The more creators build, the more players join, attracting even more creators. This flywheel is difficult for competitors to replicate.
- **User-Generated Content Ecosystem**: Roblox Studio empowers millions of creators to generate endless fresh content, keeping the platform sticky and diverse.
- **Safety by Design**: Proactive, layered moderation and AI-driven safety features build trust with parents and regulators.
- **Cross-Platform Ubiquity**: Seamless experience across mobile, desktop, console, and web, reaching a broad global audience.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI & Machine Learning**: Investing heavily in generative AI tools for creators, machine learning systems for the economy, and 3D foundation models.
- **Scaling Infrastructure**: Building backend services and data centers capable of supporting a billion users.
- **Immersive Experiences**: Expanding beyond gaming into social, education, commerce, and live events (e.g., concerts, brand activations).
- **Creator Monetization**: Enhancing tools and revenue-sharing to attract and retain top developers.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: “Respect the Community, Take the Long View, Be Responsible, Get Stuff Done.” Emphasis on innovation, continuous learning, and ownership.
- **Work Model**: Hybrid – onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday in San Mateo; optional Monday and Friday.
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Competitive base salary (e.g., Senior Fullstack Engineer: $242,100–$293,800), plus equity and comprehensive benefits focusing on health, wealth, and happiness.
- **Career Growth**: Early ownership, mentorship from industry leaders, and the chance to ship features to hundreds of millions of users. Interns work on real projects that often go live.
- **Assessment-First Hiring**: Early-career roles use skills-based assessments (coding, problem-solving, decision-making) to reduce bias and level the playing field.
- **Diverse Technical Challenges**: Work across AI, real-time communication, massive data processing, 3D rendering, and more.

## Sources
1. [careers.roblox.com](https://careers.roblox.com/) – Careers homepage, values, and culture
2. [about.roblox.com/engineering](https://about.roblox.com/engineering) – Engineering overview and roles
3. [about.roblox.com/newsroom/2026/01/now-live-the-immersive-roblox-careers-experience](https://about.roblox.com/newsroom/2026/01/now-live-the-immersive-roblox-careers-experience) – 2026 Careers Experience announcement
4. [careers.roblox.com/early-career](https://careers.roblox.com/early-career) – Early career programs and assessment process
5. [careers.roblox.com/jobs/7540814](https://careers.roblox.com/jobs/7540814) – Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack job posting

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