Build Roblox's privacy infrastructure — data governance, user rights fulfillment, and regulatory compliance at platform scale

Roblox is hiring a Senior Privacy Software Engineer for its Privacy Infrastructure team to design backend services, APIs, and data pipelines that embed privacy-by-design controls (data discovery, retention, auditing, user rights fulfillment) into engineering workflows for a rapidly growing product ecosystem. This interview centers on distributed systems and data platform design at the intersection of privacy, security, and regulatory frameworks like GDPR and CCPA.

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What this interview tests

Privacy-by-design backend services, APIs, and data pipelines
Data discovery, governance, retention, and auditing at platform scale
Fulfilling user privacy rights (access/deletion) programmatically across many services
ETL and metadata systems for large-scale data governance
Applying GDPR/CCPA and other regulatory frameworks to concrete system design
Cross-functional collaboration with security, legal, and policy stakeholders

Common question themes

Describe a data governance, ETL, or metadata system you designed for privacy or compliance

How would you design an API/pipeline to automatically fulfill a user data deletion request across many services

How do you build monitoring/auditing so privacy controls are provably effective, not just assumed

Walk through translating a GDPR or CCPA requirement into a concrete technical design constraint

Tell me about a time the 'right' engineering answer conflicted with a legal or policy requirement

How do you analyze large-scale data flows to identify privacy risk in a growing system

How candidates describe it

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