Senior Technical Director, Content Platform

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

Job summary

Roblox is seeking an IC Technical Director for Content Platform in San Mateo, CA. You will own the lifecycle of every asset—from creation to delivery—leading multidisciplinary teams to scale performance, reliability, and safety at global scale.

This role drives roadmap ownership, architecture, and cost efficiency while collaborating with product and infrastructure teams to empower creators and players on Roblox.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience building high-impact, consumer-facing applications at scale.
• Deep expertise in backend engineering, distributed systems, and large-scale infrastructure.
• Strong experience working with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term strategy, architecture, and priorities for the Content Platform team, ensuring scalable, high-performance asset management.
• Lead engineering teams in building and maintaining robust, large-scale distributed systems to support asset creation, upload, storage, indexing, and delivery.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Cross-functional teams

Leadership

Education

BS in Computer Science

Job description

Roblox is seeking an IC Technical Director for Content Platform in San Mateo, CA. You will own the lifecycle of every asset—from creation to delivery—leading multidisciplinary teams to scale performance, reliability, and safety at global scale.

This role drives roadmap ownership, architecture, and cost efficiency while collaborating with product and infrastructure teams to empower creators and players on Roblox.