Engineering Manager, Observability Infrastructure

Roblox; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 295,250 - 345,040; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Roblox is seeking an Engineering Manager for our Observability team in San Mateo, CA. This strategic role involves leading the development of AI-powered observability platforms.

You'll be responsible for mentoring engineers and driving initiatives to enhance developer productivity and platform reliability. Ideal candidates have a strong background in engineering management, extensive experience with distributed systems, and a passion for AI in engineering productivity.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in engineering management with a track record of mentoring.
• Strong experience in building and operating data infrastructure.
• Passion for improving developer experience using AI.

Responsibilities

• Define the vision and roadmap for observability infrastructure at Roblox.
• Lead and mentor a team in building AI-powered platforms.
• Enhance developer productivity and operational excellence.

Skills

Engineering management experience

Large-scale distributed systems

Observability platforms experience

Technical judgment

Communication skills

Job description

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.

The Observability team builds the infrastructure that empowers engineers to understand, operate, and improve the Roblox platform and ecosystem. Our team owns the end-to-end observability stack across telemetry, distributed tracing, logging, profiling, storage systems, and developer-facing visualization tools.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the next generation of AI-powered observability platforms. In this role, you will help build intelligent systems that leverage AI to revolutionize CI/CD, testing, and DevOps workflows — enabling engineers to move faster, improve reliability, and operate large-scale distributed systems with greater efficiency and confidence.

This is a highly impactful leadership role at the center of Roblox infrastructure. Your work will directly improve developer productivity, platform reliability, and operational excellence across the company. You will partner closely with infrastructure, product engineering, and AI platform teams to shape the future of developer tooling and autonomous operations at scale.

You Have

• 3+ years of engineering management experience with a proven track record of hiring, mentoring, and growing high-performing teams.
• Strong experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems and data infrastructure.
• Experience with observability platforms or AI/ML-powered infrastructure is a plus.
• Strong technical judgment and execution skills, with the ability to balance long-term platform investments with near-term business priorities.
• Passion for developer experience, platform engineering, and applying AI to improve engineering productivity and operational excellence.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills across engineering, product, and infrastructure teams.

You Will

• Partner with stakeholders across the company to define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the next generation of observability infrastructure at Roblox.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers building AI-powered observability platforms and intelligent developer infrastructure.
• Foster a strong engineering culture centered on ownership, execution, innovation, collaboration, and customer impact.
• Drive initiatives that improve developer productivity, operational excellence, and platform reliability at scale.
• Help shape the future of AI-driven developer tooling, CI/CD, testing, and DevOps experiences across Roblox.

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: 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.

Annual Salary Range

$295,250 — $345,040 USD

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

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.

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.