Distinguished Engineer (Technical Director) - Ads Infra - Roblox
San Mateo, CA
About the Job
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.
As a Technical Director of Ads, you'll be in charge of the overall technical vision and execution for all ad-serving and ads platform initiatives across all of Roblox. The mission of these teams is to deliver highly targeted and effective ads to our user base, covering a diverse range of advertising problems at a high scale. This is a hands-on technical role.
With our advertising platform growing at a rapid rate, we are looking for expert tech leaders who are passionate about designing and building robust ad serving solutions to power our advertising ecosystem.
You Will:
- Lead the technical direction and implementation for the ad serving, retrieval/ranking and measurement infra s that power the advertising systems driving our platform's monetization
- Author specs for new features and improvements in our ad serving infrastructure while coding on a regular basis
- Lead other engineers by example and through technical direction as an individual contributor
- Become an authority on our ad tech stack and ensure that we always build new services the right way
- Collaborate with other teams within the company to make sure we are building products with advertiser, user, and company-first mentality
- Balance researching new ad technologies with a practical approach to realize the research efforts into our products
- Collaborate with the AdTech industry and communities where applicable and be an ambassador for our company
- This is a Hybrid role, requiring three days/week in our San Mateo Headquarters.
You Have:
- 10+ years of experience in AdTech and a proven track record of designing, delivering, and improving large-scale ad serving infrastructure and retrieval systems.
- Extensive experience in building and maintaining ad servers, with a deep understanding of ad serving technologies and best practices.
- Strong infrastructure experience, including knowledge of cloud technologies, scalable architectures, and high-performance systems
- The ability to break down long-term product requirements into iterative deliverable stages to build ad serving products used by millions of users and advertisers.
- Initiated and facilitated significant technical decisions across multiple teams and organizations in the AdTech space.
- Mastered several languages and technologies already; you can easily adapt to any situation.
- A passion for rolling up your sleeves to tackle complex ad serving problems or infrastructure challenges when they come up
- A BS in Computer Science or a related field, MS/PhD are a definite plus.
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.
Roles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
You’ll Love:
- Industry-leading compensation package
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- A rewarding 401k program
- Flexible vacation policy (varies by exemption status)
- 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. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations for all candidates during the interview process.