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Technical Director - Voice Systems
1 year ago
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.
About the role:
We connect people and bring them together in an immersive experience. Voice is one of the fundamentals of communication and we make it immersive at Roblox. We are part of the Roblox Engine and promote all the media foundations. As Technical Director (Individual Contributor), you'll oversee our Voice Systems architecture and its path to grow.
You will:
- Build an architecture strategy for our Voice system at mass scale to enable broad communication experiences
- Align teams to the strategic vision, understand the business implications and what it is can unleash
- Own a comprehensive scale plan for the system and all its dependencies
- Articulate the system bottlenecks and how all subsystems fit together to form a unified scalable system
- Design architecture improvements to help the next generation of Voice experiences
- Be the domain champion and set the standard for technical quality
- Change the world
You have:
- Over 15+ years of experience in large media systems (preferred Voice). You have B.Sc./MS in Computer Science.
- Proven record in shipping high-scale media system products resulting high customer impact
- Experience in system engineering, understanding of scale constraints, reliability aspects, and quality of service.
- You are an industry expert, with an understanding of technology in the area of: Streaming, Voice, Audio, Video. You have the passion and excitement to break new technology boundaries.
- Ability to work cross-team, with people, and have a profound communication in yours and their technical domain
- Ability to lead technical teams in vague situations and be able to create the path while getting everyone united toward a unified vision
You are:
- Not afraid to experiment and bring new controversial ideas
- A visioner, you imagine the far future and operate in steps to make it happen
- A team player, working collaboratively with others, able to influence and open to be influenced by other ideas
- Analytic, basing your thoughts on data, and able to construct an overall rationalization around it
For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: 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.
Annual Salary Range
$383,910 — $440,190 USD
You’ll Love:
- Industry-leading compensation package
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- A rewarding 401k program
- Flexible vacation policy
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- At Roblox HQ:
- Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
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