Engineering Director, Storage

Roblox; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 399,000 - 458,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

On-site office (San Mateo)

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Roblox in San Mateo, CA is seeking a Director of Engineering for storage systems, leading strategy, design, and operations at scale. You will own distributed databases, caches, queues, object storage, and encryption infrastructure, and grow a world-class team while ensuring reliability and end-to-end ownership.

This role offers equity, on-site collaboration, and impact across a platform used by millions of users worldwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of storage, infrastructure, or distributed systems roles with hands-on experience building and operating custom database systems.
• 5+ years in engineering leadership, managing teams through ambiguity to deliver production-scale systems.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Storage systems

Distributed databases

Caching systems

Object storage

Message queues

Data streaming

Reliability engineering

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

On-call practices

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/CE

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 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 Roblox's storage systems. The challenge is scale, efficiency, reliability, and innovation all at once. We are mostly on-prem but also in the cloud — yes, we're actually building a lot of this ourselves, and yes, we know how hard that is. We've got the scale and the talent to do it.

You’ve 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. You're 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 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

You Have

• 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 – 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

Annual Salary Range

$399,420 — $457,970 USD

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job‑related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full‑time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.

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.