Roblox
Director, Engineering — Engineering Acceleration
$399K–$458K
San Mateo, CA, United States · Director · Full-time · Posted Jul 6, 2026
- Visa sponsorship
- For US-based roles, the company may be unable to employ candidates whose US work authorization is related to certain visa categories or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
About the job
Leads Engineering Acceleration to build an agentic-native engineering toolchain that improves developer productivity, software quality, and production reliability.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction for AI-driven development, testing, verification, and continuous deployment.
- Improve reliability through safe changes, progressive rollouts, automated verification, and rapid rollback.
- Own the roadmap and reduce operational toil through self-serve or agent-driven automation.
What they ask for
- Experience leading and growing engineering teams, including managers and/or senior individual contributors, with a track record in people development.
- Strong technical depth in backend/distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
- Track record delivering internal developer platforms, CI/CD, or deployment systems at scale.
- Familiarity with AI engineering tools and workflows, eval design, and open-weight models; strong cross-organizational collaboration and communication skills.
Nice to have
- Backend proficiency in C# and/or Go; familiarity with Kubernetes/Nomad (Hashistack), Temporal, and AWS.
- Hands-on experience applying AI/agents to engineering workflows, staged rollouts, and incident prevention or automated verification.
Pay
$399,420 — $457,970 USD (base salary)
Tools
C#, Go, Kubernetes/Nomad (Hashistack), Temporal, AWS
AI focus
Rebuild engineering infrastructure for AI agents to handle migrations, validation, testing, and routine operations, with guardrails and feedback loops; define AI-driven quality and verification workflows.
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