Director, Engineering — Engineering Acceleration

Roblox
San Mateo
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 399,420 - 457,970 annuallyFunction: Executive & General ManagementSkills: ["People development","Communication","Cross-organizational collaboration","Problem-solving","Technical leadership"]

Lead the Engineering Acceleration platforms that determine how thousands of engineers build, deploy, and keep backend systems reliable at scale. Reimagine the engineering toolchain as agentic-native, setting direction for AI-driven quality, SEV prevention, progressive rollouts, and fast rollbacks. Drive roadmap execution across pods to reduce operational toil through automation and safe-change mechanisms, partnering across engineering organizations.

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Roblox
Roblox
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Director, Engineering — Engineering Acceleration

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Job Summary

Lead the Engineering Acceleration platforms that determine how thousands of engineers build, deploy, and keep backend systems reliable at scale. Reimagine the engineering toolchain as agentic-native, setting direction for AI-driven quality, SEV prevention, progressive rollouts, and fast rollbacks. Drive roadmap execution across pods to reduce operational toil through automation and safe-change mechanisms, partnering across engineering organizations.
Location: San Mateo
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Reimagine the engineering toolchain as agentic-native, designing platforms, guardrails, and feedback loops for safe AI-driven migrations, validation, and routine operations.
  • •Set technical direction for AI-driven quality, including agent-generated tests, coverage for untested paths, intelligent verification, and continuous-deployment workflows.
  • •Improve software quality and SEV prevention through safe-change mechanisms, automated verification, progressive rollout, and fast reliable rollback.
  • •Reduce operational toil by automating manual repeat work such as patching and large-scale migrations into self-serve or agent-driven workflows.
  • •Own and drive the roadmap by aligning cross-pod plans and execution against company goals for safe rollouts.

Pay and Benefits

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

Key Requirements

  • •Experience leading and growing engineering teams, including managing managers and/or senior ICs, with a strong people-development track record.
  • •Strong technical depth in backend/distributed systems and cloud infrastructure to make credible system design and technical decisions.
  • •A track record delivering internal developer platforms, CI/CD, or deployment systems at scale for many internal customers and services.
  • •A strong point of view on AI/agentic tooling changes to engineering workflows, with hands-on familiarity with the modern AI engineering stack, AI coding tools, eval design, and open-weight models.
  • •Excellent communication and cross-organizational collaboration, translating ambiguous multi-system problems into concrete executable plans.
Skills:People developmentCommunicationCross-organizational collaborationProblem-solvingTechnical leadership
Languages:English
Tech Stack:C#GoKubernetesNomadTemporalAWSCI/CDContinuous deploymentCanaryFeature flagsAI coding toolsEval designOpen-weight models

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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