Storage Engineering Director: Scale & Reliability

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

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.