Senior Product Manager, Roblox
Compute Platform
$280.5-330.9k
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Online gaming and entertainment platform
Posted today
Online gaming and entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
$280.5-330.9k
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect a billion people with optimism and civility.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of product management experience, focused on Compute infrastructure or distributed systems at scale
- Deep practical understanding of Kubernetes internals and control plane components (API Server bottlenecks, Etcd scaling limitations, Kubelet behavior, etc) and experience productizing custom Kubernetes Operators, Controllers, and Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) to extend platform capabilities beyond vanilla implementations
- Deep familiarity with GPU/accelerator architecture and scheduling challenges, including topology-aware placement, preemption, hardware affinity constraints, and mechanisms to validate resource readiness before scheduling to avoid wasted compute cycles
- Familiarity with cloud-native service networking including microservices, CNIs, and enterprise-grade service mesh architectures
- Built production-grade compute platforms where efficiency, reliability, and developer experience were designed-in from day one
- The ability to balance the needs of multiple users and stakeholders and make optimal tradeoffs between utilization, latency, cost and time-to-ship while maintaining reliability
- A builder mindset - you are passionate about prototyping, evolving products through rapid iteration, and leveraging AI for ideation and unlocking value for users
- Experience building Compute infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure or other cloud providers. (preferred)
- Background in AI model development, training, inference. (preferred)
- Kernel-level experience or familiarity with custom kernel drivers. (preferred)
- Experience building agentic systems for Compute or infrastructure. (preferred)
What the job involves
- As Senior Product Manager, Compute Platform, you'll set the strategy and roadmap for Roblox's next-generation AI infrastructure: the rapidly growing fleet of GPUs and AI accelerators spanning Roblox core and edge data centers, and public cloud that decides how fast we can train, serve, and scale every model on the platform
- You'll own the products that turn raw GPU hosts into reliable, production-ready AI compute - driver and firmware management, fleet-wide health and performance, and the abstractions product teams across Roblox build on
- Drive strategy and roadmap for Compute Platform spanning Managed Kubernetes (Roblox Kubernetes Service), Managed Compute Services and other critical distributed systems, and our fleet of GPU and CPU machines managed via unified Fleet APIs - all across on-prem and cloud
- Drive the evolution of our Compute infrastructure to support Roblox’s most critical workloads - from AI to Storage to Data Analytics and more - each with their own distinct requirements
- Build and scale our GPU infrastructure to support training and inference for frontier models, enabling innovation at scale while optimizing cost-to-serve
- Stay laser-focused on Compute Platform Reliability for AI and other Roblox workloads, lowering mean-time-to-detection and recovery from failures
- Partner closely with seven key platform teams to understand their use cases and empower them with Compute Platform primitives enabling them to build on top easily
- Lead cross-functionally, acting as the connective tissue between Compute Platform Users, Engineers, AI researchers, Product, Finance, and Roblox leadership
Our take
Online gaming may be a well-established space, but Roblox has distinguished itself as a leader by empowering its community to build, share, and profit from their own creations, turning game development into an accessible, rewarding ecosystem for millions of users.
In addition to standard games, the platform offers virtual worlds and other experiences to explore and interact with. Its platform provides an online ecosystem for millions to create, socialize, chat, and explore immersive experiences with friends. In fact, in the US its used by two-thirds of children aged 9 to 12.
While the platform does face scrutiny over users safety (particularly given its young audience) the company's efforts to strengthen parental controls and open dialogue through initiatives like its new Parents Council signal a growing commitment to addressing these challenges. At the same time, its financial performance and creator-focused investments underscore a business in very strong health. With record payouts to developers, an expanding older player base, and a platform that increasingly rewards creative talent, Roblox's trajectory remains one of innovation and impressive growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$520m
SERIES H
Feb 2020
$150m
SERIES G
Total funding: $922.8m
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
David Baszucki
(Founder & CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford before founding Knowledge Revolution in 1990, where they spent 9 years as CEO. They worked as VP of MSC.Software for 2 years, and started Roblox in 2005.
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