Engineering Director, Roblox
Storage
$399.4-458k
+ Equity
3-5 days a week in office
Online gaming & entertainment platform
Be an early applicant
Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$399.4-458k
+ Equity
3-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect a billion people with optimism and civility.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
- 10+ years of experience in storage, infrastructure, or distributed systems roles, including hands-on experience building and operating custom database systems, with depth in at least several of: caching systems, object storage, message queues, or data streaming
- 5+ years in engineering leadership, managing teams through ambiguity to deliver critical, production-scale systems
- A track record of building reliable, high-availability systems at significant scale (millions of users, petabyte-scale data, or equivalent)
- Strong operational instincts — you raise the bar on reliability and execution, not just vision
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners and earn trust across engineering, product, and leadership
- Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward learning: you go deep on tech stacks that are new to you and bring others along
What the job involves
- Own the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for Roblox's storage systems, including distributed databases, caches, queues, object storage, and encryption infrastructure
- Ensure our storage platform scales by orders of magnitude while remaining reliable and efficient
- Partner closely with Data Platform, Infrastructure, and product engineering teams to align storage capabilities with Roblox's technical and business needs
- Build, grow, and retain a world-class storage engineering team — and develop the next generation of technical leaders within it
- Drive operational excellence: define and hold the bar on reliability, on-call practices, and incident response
- Own your systems end-to-end, including participation in on-call rotation for critical incidents
Our take
Online gaming may be a well-established space, but Roblox has distinguished itself as a leader by empowering its community to build, share, and profit from their own creations - turning game development into an accessible, rewarding ecosystem for millions of users.
In addition to standard games, the platform offers virtual worlds and other experiences to explore and interact with. Its platform provides an online ecosystem for millions to create, socialize, chat, and explore immersive experiences with friends. In fact, in the US its used by two-thirds of children aged 9 to 12.
The platform has faced scrutiny over user safety, but responded by strengthen parental controls and launching initiatives like its "Parents Council". This move to address these issues, atop its strong financial performance and record payouts to developers, showcase Roblox's trajectory as one of innovation and impressive growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$520m
SERIES H
Feb 2020
$150m
SERIES G
Total funding: $922.8m
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
David Baszucki
(Founder & CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford before founding Knowledge Revolution in 1990, where they spent 9 years as CEO. They worked as VP of MSC.Software for 2 years, and started Roblox in 2005.
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