About the company
Roblox is a global platform where tens of millions of people come to explore, create, play, learn, and connect in 3D immersive digital experiences. The company is on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a high-performing team of Backend and Data Engineers responsible for the infrastructure powering Roblox’s Homepage and other Discovery product surfaces.
- Define and execute the technical roadmap for large-scale content discovery, personalization, ranking, data, and backend-serving systems.
- Drive high-impact initiatives such as Personalization-as-a-Platform, full-page personalization, real-time user signal infrastructure, and ranking observability.
- Partner closely with Machine Learning, Data Science, Product, Design, Frontend, Ads, Marketplace, Economy, Search, and Core Infrastructure teams to deliver measurable product impact.
- Build a strong engineering culture focused on technical excellence, reliability, experimentation, operational health, and talent development.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager or Tech Lead Manager, ideally leading backend, data, ranking, recommendation, search, ads, or personalization teams.
- Strong technical depth in distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, high-throughput backend platforms, data infrastructure, or ML-powered serving systems.
- Experience leading teams that build and operate large-scale, consumer-facing production systems with high reliability and performance requirements.
- A track record of delivering complex, ambiguous, cross-functional technical initiatives with measurable product or business impact.
- Experience growing engineers, developing technical leaders, and building healthy, high-performing engineering teams.
- Technical and strategic: Able to guide architecture, roadmap, and execution across complex backend, data, and personalization systems.
- Impact-oriented: Focused on building systems that improve user experience, creator success, and Roblox’s long-term growth.
- Data-driven: Comfortable using metrics, experimentation, and evidence to guide product and engineering decisions.
- Collaborative: Effective at partnering across Product, ML, Data Science, Design, and engineering teams.
- A talent multiplier: Invested in coaching engineers, raising the engineering bar, and creating an environment where the team can do its best work.
Conditions
- The starting base pay for this position is $295,250 – $345,040 USD.
- All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.
- Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday.