Engineering Manager, Home Infrastructure & Personalization

Roblox; California (MO); On-site; USD 295,000 - 345,000; Full time

Job summary

Roblox is seeking an Engineering Manager for Home Infrastructure in San Mateo, CA to lead a team of Backend and Data Engineers powering our Homepage and Discovery surfaces.

You will define the technical roadmap for large-scale content discovery, personalization, and backend-serving systems, while growing engineers and promoting a culture of reliability, experimentation, and operational excellence across Roblox’s core infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 3+ years as Engineering Manager or Tech Lead Manager, leading backend, data, ranking, recommendation, search, ads, 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.

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, Economy, Search, and Core Infrastructure teams to deliver measurable product impact.
• Build a strong engineering culture focused on technical excellence, reliability, experimentation, operational health, and talent development.

Skills

Distributed systems depth

Backend/data systems

Leadership & mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Roblox is seeking an Engineering Manager for Home Infrastructure in San Mateo, CA to lead a team of Backend and Data Engineers powering our Homepage and Discovery surfaces.

You will define the technical roadmap for large-scale content discovery, personalization, and backend-serving systems, while growing engineers and promoting a culture of reliability, experimentation, and operational excellence across Roblox’s core infrastructure.