Engineering Manager, Observability Infrastructure

Required

• 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 to align priorities and drive outcomes.
• A talent multiplier: Invested in coaching engineers, raising the engineering bar, and creating an environment where the team can do its best work.
• 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 as described on this page.
• Annual Salary Range