Senior Engine Networking Product Lead

The Briefed; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 281,000 - 331,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Comprehensive health insurance

Onsite campus with meals

401(k) matching

Job summary

Roblox is seeking a Senior/Principal Product Manager for Engine Networking to lead the multi-year strategy of the core networking stack and cloud game servers. You will partner with Data Science, Engineering, Matchmaking, and Infrastructure to drive latency improvements and scalable architectures across the platform.

You will own roadmaps, drive architectural delivery, and partner across teams to turn complex telemetry into measurable product impact for 130M daily players worldwide.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of technical product management experience in infrastructure-adjacent domains.
• Computer Science degree or equivalent technical background.
• Ability to define multi-year technical roadmaps and align cross-functional teams.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with comfort in ambiguity and scaling concepts.
• Analytical mastery over telemetry metrics to measure performance improvements.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication to engineers and executives.

Responsibilities

• Strategy, Roadmap & Architectural Execution: Define and execute the long-term vision for the Engine Networking stack, prioritizing investments in high-performance, real-time client-server architecture.
• Architectural Delivery: Drive hands-on execution of major technical initiatives, including offline play features and state replication enhancements.
• Infrastructure Partnership: Collaborate with Infrastructure and Matchmaking teams to optimize network KPIs and data center deployment strategies.
• AI & Frontier Tech Integration: Evaluate AI and emerging network protocols for step-function performance gains.
• Data Rigor & Technical Enablement: Define complex quantitative performance metrics with Data Science to analyze network telemetry.
• Hands-On Execution & Alignment: Translate strategy into detailed technical specifications for cross-functional teams.
• Product Mentorship: Elevate product culture with technical rigor and customer empathy.

Skills

Technical product management

Infrastructure-adjacent products

Low-level networking

Socket protocols

System architecture

Roadmap execution

Executive communication

Education

Computer Science degree or equivalent

Job description

Roblox is seeking a Senior/Principal Product Manager for Engine Networking to lead the multi-year strategy of the core networking stack and cloud game servers. You will partner with Data Science, Engineering, Matchmaking, and Infrastructure to drive latency improvements and scalable architectures across the platform.

You will own roadmaps, drive architectural delivery, and partner across teams to turn complex telemetry into measurable product impact for 130M daily players worldwide.