Engineering Manager - Profiles

Roblox • San Mateo, CA

9h • Onsite

About The Position

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.
At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
At Roblox, we believe that careers are dynamic and should be a continuous progression through challenges and opportunities that build new skills and strengths.
As part of our commitment to fostering growth and development, we encourage you to learn more about this opportunity and apply if you see a potential fit!
Why Profiles?
Identity and expression is a critical part of every user journey on Roblox. As the Engineering Manager, you will power the Roblox ecosystem – helping people recognize and connect with friends & interests, express themselves, and represent their identities. You will own critical features used by millions of users, as well as develop new zero-to-one features. Your work will directly influence company-level goals around engagement and connection.
You will lead the development of a comprehensive Profiles platform that supports all Daily Active Users, partnering across teams to enable rich identity experiences throughout Roblox.
You’ll influence both the technical platform and the product surface that enables users to build their identities and presence on Roblox, for a richer user experience.
This role is based at Roblox HQ in San Mateo, CA (no remote option).

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience as an engineering manager or tech lead manager.
• 8+ years of experience building full-stack systems, including backend, APIs, frontend applications, and user-facing features
• Excellence in collaborating with others, and in developing software engineers. You have demonstrated outcomes of facilitating team success and leading by example.
• A proven track record of technical delivery in high-scale environments with complex constraints
• Experience solving difficult problems involving both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders
• Proactive: You operate with a sense of urgency, initiating conversations and workflow that pushes product strategy and the team forward A product owner: You champion for changes that align with the needs of our users and closely collaborate with Product Managers to build into the roadmap.
• A product owner: You champion for changes that align with the needs of our users and closely collaborate with Product Managers to build into the roadmap.
• Team Oriented: You are constantly looking at how to make the team stronger – both the team you directly manage, and the team of peers you collaborate with.
• Solution Oriented: You start with the problem to be solved, and stay laser-focused on getting it solved. You can tackle anything that comes your way, whether it’s a technical problem, a business problem, or a people problem.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team. Support engineers, ranging from junior to senior, in their development.
• Foster a team culture of collaboration, innovation, and engineering excellence; while getting things done.
• Define and execute the product and technical strategy for enabling identity and expression on the platform
• Own the team’s mission and outcomes. Work with stakeholders to define the team’s roadmap, and ensure execution.
• Partner with PM, Design, Data, and stakeholders across Roblox, to develop innovative solutions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed