Safety Threat Investigator, Safety Investigations
- Location
- San Mateo, CA, United States
- Salary range
- USD $154,970 – $184,570 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- Investigations
- Posted
- 2 weeks ago
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P3, Senior. The typical base salary for that level in Investigations & Threat Intel is $130k to $180k at an employer this size in the San Francisco Bay Area. Key skills at this level: runs an investigation end to end, from signal to enforcement to writeup, builds and maintains the tradecraft others on the team follow, and works law enforcement and external referral pathways correctly.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: asks for 4+ years · posts $155k to $185k base at a company of 500 to 5,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area · the title reads as P2.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from Roblox's posting.
Investigates serious safety threats on the Roblox platform, including child exploitation, violent extremism, organized fraud, compromised accounts and coordinated abuse. The Safety Investigations team's Core Investigations capability handles repeatable, high-sensitivity matters, and the role escalates cases needing deeper attribution or cross-platform work to Specialized Investigations.
What you'd do
- Run sensitive cases end to end, from intake to a documented outcome.
- Define questions, scope, hypotheses, evidence plans and exit criteria for ambiguous or sensitive matters.
- Gather, preserve and corroborate evidence while keeping provenance and auditability intact.
- Map account, entity and timeline linkages and decide when a case needs deeper attribution or network analysis.
- Escalate cases to Specialized Investigations or partner with them on attribution, cross-platform or external actionability.
- Prepare case summaries and standardized work product for Legal, Safety Intelligence, Law Enforcement Operations or NCMEC.
- Spot recurring problems and turn them into suggested changes for Policy, Product, Engineering and Detection.
What it asks for
- Four or more years investigating severe safety, abuse, fraud, security or threat cases.
- Experience using SQL and/or Python with large datasets.
- Experience with open-source intelligence in an investigative context.
- Experience with attribution, entity linkage, network analysis or cross-platform research.
- Ability to separate facts, inferences, allegations and conclusions in written work product.
- Strong written and verbal communication for investigators, leadership, Legal and Engineering audiences.
- Demonstrated mentorship or subject-matter expertise for other investigators (preferred).
Worth knowing
- May require reviewing graphic, controversial and offensive content under company handling policies.
- On-call rotation during weekends and holidays.
Terms in this role
- NCMEC.
- The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, a US nonprofit. It runs the CyberTipline, where US-based online services must report apparent child sexual abuse material they find.
- OSINT.
- Open-source intelligence: investigating with publicly available information, such as social media, public records, archived pages and imagery.
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About Roblox

The employer
About Roblox
Gaming · Social platforms · San Mateo, CA · 1,001 to 5,000 people · Founded 2004
Platform where users build and play each others games, with a largely young player base.
Moderation, reported
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