Senior Engineering Manager, Roblox

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing and growing engineering teams
• A track record of building and shipping consumer-facing products at scale — ideally messaging, communications, social, or other real-time systems
• Strong product intuition: you make thoughtful tradeoffs between user experience, technical complexity, and speed, and you care about what you ship, not just how it's built
• Deep experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, with a strong grasp of reliability, latency, and the realities of running high-throughput services in production
• Demonstrated ability to attract, develop, and retain strong engineers, and to build healthy, high-performing teams
• Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership skills, with a history of driving alignment across product, design, and engineering
• A bias toward action and a comfort with ambiguity, especially at high scale

Desirable

• As a Senior Engineering Manager, Communications, you'll lead the team responsible for in-game text chat — one of the most-used surfaces on Roblox and a cornerstone of how our community connects.
• Every day this system carries billions of messages across hundreds of millions of users, in real time, across 2D and 3D spaces, on every device we support.
• You'll own the roadmap and the engineering org behind it: building rich, immersive, and engaging communication experiences that let people and creators express themselves safely and seamlessly — better than in real life
• This is a role for a leader who thinks like a product builder as much as an engineer.
• You'll balance the demands of massive scale and rock-solid reliability with a relentless focus on the user experience, shipping features that make conversation on Roblox feel effortless, expressive, and safe.
• You'll grow and develop a team of engineers, set technical direction, and partner deeply across product, design, trust & safety, and infrastructure to define what communication on Roblox becomes next
• Lead, grow, and develop a team of software engineers building the in-game text chat platform, setting a high bar for engineering excellence, ownership, and career growth
• Own the technical vision and multi-quarter roadmap for real-time text messaging, balancing new product capabilities against scale, latency, reliability, and cost
• Drive the architecture and evolution of messaging systems that reliably deliver billions of messages per day at low latency to a global, cross-platform audience
• Partner with product and design to shape a compelling communication experience — treating chat as a product, not just infrastructure — and translate ambiguous goals into concrete plans and shipped features
• Collaborate closely with Trust & Safety, Policy, and ML teams to ensure every messaging experience is safe and civil by design for a young, global user base
• Establish strong engineering practices around quality, observability, on-call health, and operational excellence for systems that must always be available
• Communicate clearly and influence across the organization — with peers, leadership, and cross-functional partners — to align teams behind a shared direction