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Director, Engineering — Engineering Acceleration

San Mateo, CAFull-time$399k2026-07-15 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid · United StatesNo visa sponsorship

Core

Reimagining the engineering toolchain as agentic-native to enable AI agents to drive migrations, validation, and operational work at scale.

Role type

Director, Engineering — Engineering Acceleration

Builds

Internal developer platforms, CI/CD, and deployment systems for thousands of Roblox engineers.

Domain

Software Engineering / AI Engineering / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Leading and growing engineering teams (managing managers and/or senior ICs), backend/distributed systems architecture, cloud infrastructure design, internal developer platform delivery, AI/agentic tooling strategy, modern AI engineering stack familiarity, eval design, open-weight models, cross-organizational collaboration, safe-change mechanisms, automated verification, progressive rollout strategies.

Preferred skills

Backend proficiency in C# and/or Go, Kubernetes/Nomad (Hashistack), Temporal, AWS, hands-on experience applying AI/agents to engineering workflows, safe/staged rollouts (canary, feature flags), incident prevention, automated verification.

Technologies

Kubernetes, Nomad, Temporal, AWS, C#, Go

Responsibilities

Design platforms and guardrails for AI agents to safely drive migrations and operational work, set technical direction for AI-driven quality and automated testing, make software quality a measurable property of the platform, drive down operational toil through automation, own and drive the roadmap aligning cross-pod plans.

Seniority

Director, strategy & mentorship