Engineering Director (Storage)

Join Roblox as an Engineering Director (Storage) and take ownership of the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for our storage systems. You will ensure our storage platform scales while remaining reliable and efficient, partner closely with various teams, build and grow a world-class storage engineering team, and drive operational excellence. You should have a strong background in storage, infrastructure, or distributed systems, with at least 10 years of experience in the field and 5 years in engineering leadership.

Own the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for Roblox's storage systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and efficiency.

USD 399,420 - 457,970

Responsibilities

• Build, grow, and retain a world-class storage engineering team, developing the next generation of technical leaders within it.
• Drive operational excellence by defining and holding the bar on reliability, on-call practices, and incident response for storage systems.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward learning: you go deep on tech stacks that are new to you and bring others along
• Strong operational instincts — you raise the bar on reliability and execution, not just vision

Requirements

• A track record of building reliable, high-availability systems at significant scale (millions of users, petabyte-scale data, or equivalent)
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners and earn trust across engineering, product, and leadership
• 10+ years of experience in storage, infrastructure, or distributed systems roles, including hands-on experience building and operating custom database systems, with 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
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field