Overview As Technical Director for Content Platform, you will steer the architecture and roadmap of Roblox's asset infrastructure, enabling creators to upload, store, index, deliver, and render assets at global scale. You will guide multidisciplinary engineering teams to build robust, distributed systems that handle massive demand while maintaining performance, safety, and cost efficiency. This role sits at the heart of Roblox's creator-centric ecosystem, shaping how assets power billions of interactions across games and experiences. You'll work cross-functionally to translate product needs into scalable platform capabilities and drive long-term strategic initiatives.
Compensation / Benefits- equity compensation
- competitive base salary (USD 399,420-457,970)
- full-time benefits
- onsite schedule at headquarters with flexible days
Responsibilities- Define and drive the long-term strategy, architecture, and priorities for the Content Platform team to ensure scalable, high-performance asset management
- Lead engineering teams in building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems for asset creation, upload, storage, indexing, and delivery
- Oversee Roblox's largest backend service to ensure reliability, scalability, and efficiency at global scale
- Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and developer platform teams to align initiatives with creators' needs and Roblox ecosystem goals
- Guide roadmaps, projects, and outcomes with a balance of innovation, operational excellence, security, and cost efficiency
Key requirements- 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
- Strong experience working with cross-functional teams
- innovative technical leadership
- product-minded with understanding of developer needs
- adaptable and curious
- backend engineering
- distributed systems
- large-scale infrastructure
