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Technical Director - Creator Platform (Individual Contributor)
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:
Roblox's engineering team is growing and we are looking for an engineering leader to help us scale. As a Technical Director in the Creator group focusing specifically on our Services team you will lead the technical vision of how Creators build on the Roblox Cloud using our first party products.
We believe that offering generic, foundational, and services are important for letting the Roblox Creators realize any experience they can imagine. You will oversee multiple important products which span across all of Roblox's technical stack: compute, storage, translation, and more. These products and services are some of the highest scale in all of Roblox and used by over 3 million Roblox creators every month.
Check out some of the recent releases by the team:
At Roblox we move fast and ship code to production daily; your leadership will increase productivity by removing obstacles and keeping processes lean. You will find and address risk and make sure the technology outpaces our growth. Roblox teams are inclusive, helpful, and have a strong sense of ownership over the things they build.
You Have:
- Always ready: You have experience defining architecture for millions of users and are excited about technical challenges. You can be hands-on and still define an architecture from scratch and make sure it can scale from few users to hundreds of millions.
- Experienced: You have 15+ years of experience in large-scale software deployments with experience leading large teams (20+) and delivering performant technical solutions. You have a BS in Computer Science or similar field. An MS or PhD is a definite plus.
- Knowledgeable: You understand all the components required to build modern large-scale infrastructure. You can recommend one route versus another and bring a team of engineers to agreement. You also love to pick up new technologies as the landscape evolves.
- Versatile: You're an utility player and you have mastered several languages and technologies already; you adapt to any situation when the need arises and come up with the right solution.
- Creative: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems and driving new tools/functionality for our creators
- Team-oriented: You have a personality that invigorates the team around you and you are used to leading technical teams in any situation.
You Will:
- Become an expert on our technology stack and make sure we resolve challenges in the right way.
- Balance researching new technologies with a practical approach to accomplish the research efforts into the Roblox products.
- Author specs for new features and improvement.
- Mentor engineers by example and through technical direction.
- Collaborate with different teams to improve existing and develop new functionality, pipelines, and workflow.
- Be guided by our organizational vision to put the Roblox community first and represent us through expertise.
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
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. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.