Engineering Director, Storage

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 were 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. Were 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 youll 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.

Robloxs infrastructure supports over 100M DAUs and recently supported a world record 45M players at the same time. The scale is real.

As Director of Engineering you will own the technical strategy design delivery and operation of Robloxs storage systems. The challenge is scale efficiency reliability and innovation all at once. We are mostly on-prem but also in the cloud yes were actually building a lot of this ourselves and yes we know how hard that is. Weve got the scale and the talent to do it.

Youve spent your career deep in storage: databases caches queues object storage. You understand that reliability is the most important feature of any system. You care deeply about the success of the internal and external customers who depend on these systems. Youre excited to shepherd a fast-growing platform from the nearly 1 exabyte we have today to a multi-exabyte deployment that will power some of the most interesting AI workloads in the industry.

You will

• Own the technical strategy architecture and roadmap for Robloxs 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 Robloxs 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

You have

• Bachelors 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 - not just deploying off-the-shelf solutions - plus 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