Senior Director of Engineering, User Connection

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

You Have:

• 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

You Are:

• 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