Senior Engineering Manager, Real-Time Chat Platform

Showcify, Inc.; Canada (KY); On-site; USD 345,000 - 399,000; Full time

Job summary

Roblox Corporation is seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager, Communications, to lead the team responsible for the in-game text chat platform. You will own the roadmap, drive architecture for billions of messages daily, and partner with product, design, and safety teams to deliver a safe, expressive communication experience for a global audience.

You will grow and mentor engineers, set technical direction, and ensure reliability and performance at scale across cross‑platform

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years building and growing engineering teams.
• Track record shipping consumer-facing products at scale, ideally messaging or real-time systems.
• Strong product intuition balancing user experience, technical complexity, and speed.
• Deep experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems with reliability and low latency.
• Demonstrated ability to attract, develop, and retain strong engineers and build high-performing teams.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership across product, design, and engineering.
• Bias toward action and comfort with ambiguity at high scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and develop a team of engineers building the in-game text chat platform, with a focus on ownership and engineering excellence.
• Own the technical vision and multi-quarter roadmap for real-time text messaging, balancing product capabilities with scale and cost.
• Drive architecture and evolution of messaging systems delivering billions of messages daily with low latency for a global audience.
• Partner with product and design to shape a chat experience treated as a product, translating goals into concrete shipped features.
• Collaborate with Trust & Safety, Policy, and ML teams to ensure safe and civil messaging for a global, young user base.
• Establish strong engineering practices around quality, observability, on-call health, and operational excellence.
• Communicate clearly and influence across the organization to align teams behind a shared direction.

Skills

Software engineering

Leadership

Real-time messaging

Distributed systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Job description

Roblox Corporation is seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager, Communications, to lead the team responsible for the in-game text chat platform. You will own the roadmap, drive architecture for billions of messages daily, and partner with product, design, and safety teams to deliver a safe, expressive communication experience for a global audience.

You will grow and mentor engineers, set technical direction, and ensure reliability and performance at scale across cross‑platform