Technical Director, Content Platform

Overview

The Content Platform team at Roblox powers the infrastructure behind every asset used across the Roblox ecosystem, enabling creators and developers to bring their visions to life at global scale. Our mission is to deliver a seamless, reliable, and innovative content system that empowers creators, supports record-breaking games, and ensures the highest standards of performance and safety for our community.

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 of 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

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience building high-impact, consumer-facing applications at scale
• 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

Qualifications

• An innovative technical leader passionate about building world-class infrastructure that powers the creativity of millions
• Product-minded, with a keen understanding of developer needs, asset workflows, and the impact of backend systems on user experience
• Adaptable and curious, eager to tackle unique technical challenges and drive the future of content platforms at scale

Benefits

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

Pay

The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. 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. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.

Schedule

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