Senior Product Manager, App Architecture

Job Summary

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.

About the Role

You will be responsible for defining the capabilities and inner workings of critical systems like our process lifecycle manager, asset download orchestrator, and critical observability frameworks like our sessionization system. You will drive a multi-year roadmap to modernize our App Architecture across key themes like modularization, network resiliency, and resource efficiency. You will also drive the roadmap for Observability & Logging Systems, empowering our customers, and writing product and technical specifications to communicate requirements & behaviors of the systems we build.

Responsibilities

• Define the capabilities and inner workings of critical systems like our process lifecycle manager, asset download orchestrator and critical observability frameworks like our sessionization system.
• Drive a multi-year roadmap to modernize our App Architecture across key themes like modularization, network resiliency, and resource efficiency.
• Drive the roadmap for Observability & Logging Systems. Dive deep into monitoring & triage workflows, identifying gaps to create new features and systems that extend our capabilities.
• Empower our customers. Every feature team across Roblox builds on top of the foundation we build. Work closely with them to evangelize, integrate, and migrate teams to the latest standards.
• Write product and technical specifications to communicate requirements & behaviors of the systems we build and unblock the team to relentlessly execute.
• Understand, influence, and expand the company's thinking on central themes like Performance, Reliability, and Maintainability, working together with partner teams on App Performance and Infra Reliability to accomplish shared goals.
• Work closely with many passionate internal stakeholders, engineers, designers, data scientists, and product team members.
• Present and debate nuanced and difficult decisions with our highly engaged and visionary leadership.
• Dive into the technical nitty-gritty, helping make the right decisions on a complex app that is shipping across every major consumer platform.
• Grow your career with a company that is growing rapidly.

Requirements

• A degree or equivalent experience in a highly technical field like computer science, software engineering.
• Experience as a PM building platforms or highly technical products.
• Experience as an engineer or engineering manager building platform products, managing migrations and designing complex systems.
• Experience owning and driving roadmaps for teams that span multiple feature areas.

Qualifications

• Analytical, with experience digging deep into profiling or debugging complex problems.
• Highly technical, comfortable with delving into individual features, the overall system, and implementation details. You're capable of going beyond user needs to define the behavior of technical systems and integrate them to form a broader platform.
• An excellent communicator and documenter, with fantastic listening, verbal, and written communication skills. You're at home understanding and communicating overarching vision and architecture and diving into technical specifications, individual tradeoffs, and priorities.
• Entrepreneurial, having worked in a fast-paced environment, with competing resources and priorities, through the product life cycle from planning, development, through to launch and continuing support. You love to get things done.
• Organized, understanding that the best way to build something great is through the joint efforts of many people.

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. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

Pay

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.

Schedule

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. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.