Engineering Director, Storage

About the role

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.

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

Requirements

• 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

Skills

• Distributed databases
• Caching systems
• Object storage
• Message queues
• Data streaming
• Encryption infrastructure
• Scalable storage architecture
• Reliability engineering
• Team leadership and mentoring

Benefits

All full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on the company’s benefits page.

Pay

Annual Salary Range $399,420—$457,970 USD. 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.

Schedule

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).