Senior Engineering Director, Marketplace

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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.

About The Role
The Roblox Marketplace is an essential piece of the Roblox experience, supporting the players' metaverse identity and personalization. The marketplace is also an essential opportunity for the community of Roblox creators to display their creativity and skill and earn a living through their creations.

As a Senior Engineering Director for the Roblox Marketplace, you will be in charge of establishing systems and tools to empower generations of creators on the platform to create, market, and sell their creations to millions of fellow Robloxians.

Our marketplace represents a fascinating and unique set of capabilities for creators and users that strives to help everyone realize their identity regardless of whether they love customizing their avatar or really just want to be a walking trophy case for the games they love and whether they have money to spend or none at all. We're designing and refining systems that support that vibrant community, and we need someone to blaze those trails with us.

You Will:

  • Shape and grow a high performance engineering team with some of the highest scale production responsibilities
  • Hire, mentor, and develop senior engineers, managers, and leaders
  • Create a culture and practice of raising the bar as well as delivering world class engineering systems and products
  • Partner closely with all functions in the company to develop innovative solution that create a cohesive and powerful marketplace

You Have: 

  • A thought leader with a proven track record of highly technical delivery in high scalability environments
  • Passionate and experienced about marketplace, e-commerce, and economic motivations and incentives for large scale platforms
  • Experienced, with 12+ years in an engineering management role, 6+ years in a Senior leadership role (org size 75+), and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field
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
$440,190$505,110 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

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. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.