Director, Engineering — Engineering Acceleration

Roblox is seeking a Director of Engineering (Engineering Acceleration) to rethink the entire engineering toolchain from the ground up to be agentic-native, creating a world where AI agents are first-class participants in software development and humans set direction and supervise. The platforms in the Engineering Acceleration org dictate how thousands of Roblox engineers ship, and how every backend service gets built, deployed, and kept reliable at scale. Hybrid in San Mateo, CA (Tue/Wed/Thu onsite). Salary: $399,420–$457,970 USD.

• Experience leading and growing engineering teams (including managing managers and/or senior ICs), with a strong people-development track record. • Strong technical depth in backend/distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, enabling you to engage credibly on system design and technical decisions. • A track record delivering internal developer platforms, CI/CD, or deployment systems at scale for many internal customers and services. • A strong point of view on how AI/agentic tooling changes engineering workflows, coupled with hands-on familiarity with the modern AI engineering stack, AI coding tools, eval design, and open-weight models. • Demonstrated cross-organizational collaboration and excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate ambiguous, multi-system problems into concrete, executable plans. • Preferred: Backend proficiency in C# and/or Go, Kubernetes/Nomad (Hashistack), Temporal, and AWS; hands-on experience applying AI/agents to engineering workflows.