Roblox
Engineering Director, Storage
$399K–$458K
San Mateo, CA, United States · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years in storage, infrastructure, or distributed systems; 5+ years in engineering leadership.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Visa sponsorship
- For US-based roles, the company may be unable to employ candidates with work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories or support future H-1B sponsorship.
About the job
Leads the strategy, architecture, delivery, and operation of Roblox’s storage systems and engineering organization, scaling the platform reliably and efficiently.
What you'll do
- Set the strategy, architecture, and roadmap for storage systems, including databases, caches, queues, object storage, and encryption infrastructure.
- Partner across engineering and product teams to align storage capabilities with technical and business needs.
- Build and lead the storage engineering team; drive reliability, on-call practices, and incident response.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years in storage, infrastructure, or distributed systems, including hands-on experience building and operating custom database systems and depth in several related areas.
- 5+ years of engineering leadership managing teams delivering production-scale systems.
- Track record of building reliable, high-availability systems at significant scale.
Pay
$399,420 — $457,970 USD base salary
Tools
distributed databases, caches, queues, object storage, encryption infrastructure, data streaming
AI focus
Scale storage infrastructure to support AI workloads.
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