Technical Director, Content Platform

Roblox
San Mateo
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 399,420 - 457,970 annuallyFunction: Content & Editorial (Writing/Editing)Experience: 12+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Backend engineering","Distributed systems","Large-scale infrastructure","Cross-functional collaboration","Architecting"]

Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams to define the long-term strategy, architecture, and priorities for Roblox’s Content Platform. Own the lifecycle of assets—from creation to delivery—across a large-scale distributed backend, ensuring high performance, reliability, security, and cost efficiency in a global-scale environment.

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Roblox
Roblox
4 months ago

Technical Director, Content Platform

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Job Summary

Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams to define the long-term strategy, architecture, and priorities for Roblox’s Content Platform. Own the lifecycle of assets—from creation to delivery—across a large-scale distributed backend, ensuring high performance, reliability, security, and cost efficiency in a global-scale environment.
Location: San Mateo
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Content & Editorial (Writing/Editing)
Seniority: Director level

Key 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 the creation, upload, storage, indexing, and delivery of all asset types used on Roblox.
  • •Oversee the operation Roblox’s largest backend service, handling 100 million+ requests per second, and ensure reliability, scalability, and efficiency at global scale.
  • •Collaborate with cross-functional partners, including product, infrastructure, and developer platform teams, to align engineering initiatives with the needs of creators and the broader Roblox ecosystem.
  • •Guide ownership of roadmaps, projects, and outcomes, balancing innovation with operational excellence, security, and cost efficiency.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 399,420 - 457,970 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •12+ years of experience building high-impact, consumer-facing applications at scale; BS in Computer Science or related experience is preferred.
  • •Deep expertise in backend engineering, distributed systems, and large-scale infrastructure delivering high-performance, reliable platforms in high-traffic production environments.
  • •Strong experience working with cross-functional teams.
  • •Product-minded, with an understanding of developer needs, asset workflows, and the impact of backend systems on user experience.
  • •Innovative technical leader who can drive strategy and architecture for a content platform.
Experience:12+ yearsConsumer-facingDistributed systemsLarge-scale infrastructure
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Backend engineeringDistributed systemsLarge-scale infrastructureCross-functional collaborationArchitecting
Languages:English

Company Brief

Roblox
Operates an online platform for user-generated games and virtual experiences, enabling creators to build, publish, and monetize interactive 3D experiences for a global community of players.
Industry: Gaming
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Mateo, United States
Founded: 2004
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