Senior/Principal Product Manager, Engine Systems Foundations

Roblox; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 281,000 - 331,000; Full time

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Equity compensation

Benefits

Job summary

Roblox in San Mateo, CA is seeking a Senior/Principal Product Manager for Engine Systems Foundations to drive the vision and strategy for core engine components and deliver high-impact features for over 130 million daily players.

You will own engine performance and memory systems, collaborate with Creator Analytics, and partner with engineering and data science to push for data-driven, scalable improvements. The role is hybrid with Tue–Thu onsite.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of product management experience in technically deep products.
• Strong technical background with CS degree or equivalent, ability to discuss low-level architecture.
• Proven ability to define multi-year product vision and rally cross-functional teams.
• Founder mindset, comfortable operating in ambiguity and driving projects globally.
• Data-driven, capable of tracking complex metrics and identifying signals.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for executives and engineers.
• Experience with UGC platforms is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term vision and strategy for Engine Systems Foundations and invest in core pieces of a high-performance, real-time game engine.
• Own engine-related content in Creator Analytics used to monitor Roblox experiences; deliver actionable insights.
• Drive end-to-end performance workflows with the Creator organization, connecting data to Roblox Studio and Microprofiler API.
• Partner with client application teams to align on performance improvement programs and platform expansion.
• Champion data rigor; work with Data Science to measure efficacy of initiatives.
• Collaborate with engineering to apply AI and architectural advances for step-function improvements.
• Go hands-on to translate roadmaps into built, deployed features with engineering leadership.
• Mentor and elevate product culture with a focus on rigorous thinking, experimentation, and customer empathy.

Skills

PM experience

Technical fluency

Strategic leadership

Entrepreneurial drive

Analytical mindset

Executive communication

UGC platform experience

Education

CS degree or equivalent

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.

As the Senior/Principal Product Manager for Engine Systems Foundations, you will drive the vision and strategy for the most foundational parts of the Roblox game engine and be hands‑on with the execution and delivery of products that impact over 130 million players every day.

This team is responsible for the core performance, reliability, and efficiency of the engine, and it owns key features like our memory allocation library, thread/work dispatch system, and the backing APIs that power our creator performance tooling.

If you are a visionary product leader who thrives on deeply technical challenges to improve the speed and quality of a system, you’ll be a great fit!

The role is based in San Mateo, CA (hybrid with Tues-Thurs onsite).

You will:

• Define the long-term vision and strategy for Systems Foundations, ensuring we have plans in place to continually invest in the core pieces of a high-performance, realtime game engine.
• Take ownership of the engine‑related content in the public Creator Analytics creators use to monitor the experiences on Roblox, ensuring we’re delivering actionable insights.
• Work with the Creator organization to define and drive end‑to‑end performance workflows for our creator community, such as connecting data that feeds Creator Analytics into Roblox Studio and our Microprofiler API and skill.
• Partner closely with the client application teams to drive alignment on joint performance improvement programs, platform expansion efforts, and more.
• Champion data rigor, working with Data Science to identify opportunities and measure the efficacy of our work.
• Think outside the box, working closely with engineering, to consider how the latest advances in AI, architecture, and more combine to deliver step‑function improvements
• Go hands‑on to bring the roadmap to life partnering with engineering leadership to ensure all features are built and deployed successfully.
• Mentor and elevate the product culture within the team, fostering an environment of rigorous thinking, experimentation, and relentless customer empathy.

You have:

• 6+ years of product management experience, with a significant portion spent in technically deep products.
• Technical Fluency: A strong technical background (CS degree or equivalent experience) with the ability to discuss low-level architecture, C++, OS fundamentals, and similar with engineering partners. You’ve written multi-threaded code at least once and gone dining with philosophers.
• Strategic Leadership: Proven ability to define a multi-year product vision and rally large, cross‑functional teams (Engineering, Data Science) behind it.
• Entrepreneurial drive: You have a "Founder" mindset. You are comfortable operating in ambiguity, making high-stakes decisions with limited information, and driving projects from vague concepts to global launch.
• Highly Analytical: Proficiency in defining and tracking complex metrics. You use data to find the "signal in the noise.”
• Executive Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. You can explain complex technical topics to non‑technical executives and define detailed technical specs for engineers with equal fluency.
• Experience with UGC platforms is a strong plus.

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$280,540—$330,950 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.