Technical Director, Content Platform

Roblox


Job Location:

San Mateo, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 25 days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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 were 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. Were 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 youll 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.


The Content Platform team at Roblox powers the infrastructure behind every asset used across the Roblox ecosystemenabling creators and developers to bring their visions to life at global scale. From 3D models and images to videos and audio our platform manages the complete lifecycle of all assets essential for immersive experiences supporting one of the largest services in the world at over 100 million requests per second. 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.

As the Technical Director for Content Platform you will lead multidisciplinary engineering teams responsible for the technical and product vision of Robloxs asset infrastructure. You will own the lifecycle of every assetfrom creation and upload to storage indexing delivery and rendering in the game client. Your leadership will be critical in scaling our systems optimizing distributed infrastructure and enabling new possibilities for creators and players alike.

You Will:

  • 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 Robloxs 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

You Have:

  • 12 years of experience building high-impact consumer-facing applications at scale. BS in Computer Science or related experience is preferred
  • 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

You Are:

  • 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




Required Experience:

Director

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 were building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experien...

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