Max Ross

As Vice President of Engineering, Max Ross leads the distributed computing platform underlying all back-end services at Roblox. This includes leadership of application services, a microservices framework, scalable data infrastructure, and the analytics and ML platform.

Prior to Roblox, Max spent 15 years at Google where he played an early role in developing App Engine, Google’s first Cloud product and one of the industry’s first Platform-as-a-Service offerings. As Senior Director of Engineering, he later helped teams design, deliver, and scale numerous Google Cloud serverless products. Max believes the future of cloud is serverless and is excited to help make this a reality for Roblox creators. He also believes in building diverse and inclusive teams.

Max graduated with a BA in American Studies and Computer Science from Williams College.