Engineering Manager, Home Infrastructure

Overview

The Home Infrastructure team builds the mission-critical backend and data systems that power Roblox's Homepage and Experience Details Page, reaching the vast majority of Roblox's daily active users and driving discovery, engagement, retention, and platform growth.

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, Virtual Economy, and other teams across Roblox 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, 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Benefits

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.