Engineering Manager, Data Tooling Platform

Roblox Corporation; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 295,000 - 345,000; Full time

Job summary

Roblox Corporation is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team building shared data tooling, including quality, lineage, metadata, and observability capabilities. You will shape roadmaps, mentor engineers, and partner across Roblox to turn complex data-operability challenges into scalable workflows.

You will balance near-term impact with durable platform foundations, ensuring data health, discoverability, and cost efficiency across Roblox’s data platform.

Qualifications

• Experience managing, mentoring, or technically leading engineers and building high-performing teams.
• Experience with data catalogs, lineage systems, data-quality frameworks, observability platforms, or metadata services.
• Familiarity with agentic or AI-assisted workflows for data discovery, analysis, or platform operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of engineers through clear expectations, regular feedback, hiring, and career development.
• Own and execute a roadmap for shared data tooling including data quality, lineage, metadata, and observability.
• Set technical direction for platform capabilities turning data and operational signals into workflows, dashboards, alerts, and remediation.
• Improve developer and user experience in discovering, validating, operating, and governing data products.
• Drive initiatives to reduce operational toil and improve data quality and costs.
• Align teams by communicating priorities, tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and outcomes.
• Foster a culture of ownership, operational excellence, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

Skills

People management

Mentoring engineers

Data catalogs

Data quality

Observability

Metadata services

AI-assisted workflows

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Data catalogs

Lineage systems

Observability platforms

Metadata services

Job description

Roblox Corporation is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team building shared data tooling, including quality, lineage, metadata, and observability capabilities. You will shape roadmaps, mentor engineers, and partner across Roblox to turn complex data-operability challenges into scalable workflows.

You will balance near-term impact with durable platform foundations, ensuring data health, discoverability, and cost efficiency across Roblox’s data platform.