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Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.
At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.
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.
The User Connections team is building the next-generation social platform at Roblox, empowering our global community to connect, share, and create meaningful interactions at an unprecedented scale. Our vision is to create the largest, safest, and most innovative social network in gaming for a billion users—leveraging trusted connections, immersive experiences, and cutting-edge safety features to redefine how people interact online.
As the Senior Director of Engineering, User Connections, you will lead and grow multidisciplinary engineering teams across the stack, responsible for the technical and product vision of a new social ecosystem. This includes real-time content sharing, the largest and most robust connections and friends databases at Roblox, and seamless, safe user interactions. You will work closely with product, moderation, and cross-functional partners to deliver a social platform that’s engaging, safe, and scalable—pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in online community building.
You Will:- Shape and drive the direction, strategy, and priorities for the User Connections team
- Build and scale social infrastructure technology, integrating advanced moderation and safety features, scaling some of the largest databases at Roblox, enabling real-time content sharing systems at scale
- Lead teams across the stack—UX, UI, and Backend—ensuring seamless, performant, and delightful user experiences
- Collaborate closely with product counterparts and cross-functional partners in aligning engineering and product strategy for our Roblox social network
- Guide ownership of roadmaps, projects, and outcomes, balancing innovative features with reliability, safety, and civility
- 12+ years engineering leadership, including 6+ years in a senior leadership role
- Deep experience leading teams in UX, UI, backend engineering, and architecture delivering UI experiences and robust backend systems at scale
- Experience building and scaling high-performing engineering teams in highly technical production environments
- Exceptional cross-functional skills, working with peer teams, product, moderation, data science, and business stakeholders
- A visionary leader excited to build the world’s largest, safest, and most innovative social network for the Roblox community
- Product-minded, with a strong sense for user engagement and moderation safety
- Collaborative and innovative, fostering an environment of psychological safety, trust, and continuous learning
- Curious and adaptable, eager to learn new technologies and tackle unique technical and product challenges
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 as described on this page.
Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations for all candidates during the interview process.
Roblox San Mateo, California, USA Office
3150 South Delaware Street, San Mateo, CA, United States, 94403
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