Technical Director, Roblox Studio

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.

Every day tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore create play learn and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital games 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 game 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 games for everyone.

About the role:
Roblox Studio is the creation engine behind millions of immersive 3D games built by creators around the world. It serves everyone from first-time developers to large professional studios combining a powerful real-time engine with a deeply expressive toolchain.

Studio is a demanding piece of software in its own righta high-performance desktop application and IDE that must stay fast and responsive while creators build script debug and test increasingly complex worlds.

In this role you will own the technical direction of the Studio application and its creator tooling. You will be accountable for the architecture performance and long-term success of Studio as a high-performance application and IDE. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role where you set the technical direction design the architecture write the code and raise the bar across teams through influence and example.

You will:

• Define and lead the technical roadmap for the Roblox Studio application and toolchain with a focus on performance responsiveness and extensibility.
• Design and build the core systems behind a high-performance desktop IDE: application startup editing the edit-test loop debugging tooling and the frameworks creators and internal teams build on.
• Lead by example as a hands-on individual contributor while setting architectural and engineering standards across Studio.
• Author and review design documents and technical specifications for foundational Studio features.
• Drive performance work end to end by profiling finding real bottlenecks and improving latency memory and throughput across the application.
• Partner closely with engineering product and design teams to deliver creator tooling that is fast reliable and intuitive.
• Bring reusable patterns and best practices to teams across Studio raising the engineering bar of Studio as a whole.

You have:

• You have a Bachelors degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a similar technical field. An MS or PhD is a strong plus.
• 12 years of engineering experience developing high-performance large-scale C systems including ownership of large long-lived platforms.
• A proven track record in areas such as memory management concurrency data structures or real-time systems.
• A strong background in creator tooling developer tools or IDE-like platforms and an understanding of what makes these products fast reliable and pleasant to use.
• Experience building and optimizing high-performance client applications with deep knowledge of how to keep a large desktop application responsive under real workloads.
• Strong systems and software engineering skills with the ability to design complex architectures and write production-grade code.
• A proven ability to set technical direction and raise quality across multiple teams as an individual contributor influencing through technical expertise mentorship and clear communication with engineers and executives alike.
• Nice to have: Experience with graphics and real-time rendering.
• Nice to have: Experience building debugging and profiling tooling for developers.

You are:

• An innovative technical leader who wants to build the tools that power the creativity of millions.
• Product-minded with a real understanding of developer needs and creator workflows and how technical decisions land in the user experience.
• User-centric starting with the end user and striving for performance usability and reliability whether building for internal engineers or external creators.
• Versatile and curious fluent in C and comfortable working across a wide range of systems.
• Able to operate at the deepest technical levels and still communicate direction clearly to partners.
• A mentor and culture builder who uplifts those around you and fosters a culture of collaboration technical rigor and continuous learning.