Engineering Director, Storage
Core
Own the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for Roblox's storage systems to support scale, efficiency, and reliability for 100M+ DAUs.
Role type
Director of Engineering (Storage Systems)
Builds
Distributed databases, caches, queues, object storage, and encryption infrastructure
Domain
Cloud & On-prem Storage Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
distributed systems architecture, database design, caching strategies, object storage management, message queue design, data streaming, encryption infrastructure, team leadership, operational excellence, incident response
Preferred skills
scaling systems by orders of magnitude, building custom database systems, managing teams through ambiguity, cross-functional collaboration
Technologies
custom database systems, caches, queues, object storage, encryption infrastructure
Responsibilities
Define technical strategy and roadmap for storage systems; ensure platform scales while remaining reliable and efficient; partner with Data Platform, Infrastructure, and product teams; build and grow a world-class storage engineering team; drive operational excellence including on-call rotation and incident response
Seniority
Director, strategic leadership with hands-on technical ownership
