Principal Capacity Planning Engineer

The Infra Foundation Capacity team provides Roblox with efficient capacity that can scale with Roblox's growth while supporting emerging initiatives and special events.

Our customers are our coworkers, and you will work with engineers across Roblox to design, build, and maintain our serving fleet. You will work on projects at every pipeline stage, improving Roblox engineering quality, velocity, and happiness. This is a high-impact position, critical to supporting our engineering teams as we scale our platforms to handle the demands of our targeted one billion monthly users.

You will report directly to the Sr. Director of Foundation.

This role is based in our San Mateo HQ office (on-site).

You Will:

• Contribute to building vision and strategy for Roblox's Capacity and Demand Engineering, enabling high performance and efficient use of our resources
• Drive organizational change
• Lead a world-class team of capacity planning and tooling engineers
• Support and mentor members of the team
• Lead infrastructure efforts in our cross-company Cost to Serve initiative
• Help shape the direction and priorities for the team.
• Ensure resiliency to maintain services in the space of failure

You Have:

• Hands-on experience as a technical leader focused on improving quality, velocity, and customer happiness
• Passion about building products that shape cultures and make others' lives better, continuously championing engineering excellence across the company
• Experience, with 8+ years in Capacity Engineering including 3+ years leading a team, and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field
• Ability to partner and sense the pulse of a company by working with Infrastructure peers, internal customers, partners, and executives.