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A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
Work with the most passionate and team-oriented people you’ll ever meet in your life. Community is the heart and soul of Roblox. Over 30 million active players engage on our platform every day!
As Technical Director, Growth, you’ll oversee the technical vision and execution for all Growth Platform teams including experimentation, notifications and more. The Growth Platform’s mission is to build a world-class platform that inspires data-driven decision making and communication. At the core of this is an experimentation platform used by thousands of employees and eventually millions of Roblox Developers, and a notifications platform to connect the right user, to the right content, at the right time. With daily active users growing at a new record rate, we are looking for experienced tech leaders who are passionate about designing and scaling the systems that power Roblox’s Growth Platform across different surfaces.
You Are:
- Always Ready: You are a world class expert in large scale distributed systems with 10+ years of experience and experience delivering low latency fault tolerant technical solutions. Experienced in designing and building full-stack systems behind consumer facing APIs that can handle large numbers of concurrent users. Have dealt with scalability and reliability issues associated with different system architectures including microservice architecture. Capable of breaking down long-term product requirements into iterative deliverable stages.
- A Creative Thinker: You have experience building solutions that have transformed an organization or an entire industry.
- A Leader: You lead by example. You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical decisions across multiple teams and organizations.
- User oriented: While deeply technical, you always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers.
- Versatile: You have mastered several languages and technologies already; you can easily adapt to any situation.
- A Coach: You raise up others and create an engineering culture of excellence.
You Will:
- Manage the systems architecture that powers Roblox’s experimentation and notifications platforms
- Lead the technical direction and implementation necessary to scale our experimentation and notification platforms across our tech stack of C#, Go, Native iOS/Android, C++, Lua, and multiple data pipeline technologies.
- Author specs for new features and improvement
- Lead other engineers by example and through technical direction as an individual contributor
- Become an expert on our technology stack and make sure we always build new services the right way
- Collaborate with other teams within Roblox to make sure we are building products with community and company first mindset.
- Balance researching new technologies with a practical approach to realize the research efforts into the Roblox products
- Interface with the industry and communities where applicable and be ambassador for Roblox.
For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.
Annual Salary Range
$383,910—$440,190 USD
You’ll Love:
- Industry-leading compensation package
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- A rewarding 401k program
- Flexible vacation policy
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- At Roblox HQ:
- Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
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