Sr. Product Manager - Game Networking Stack | Roblox NEW

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

As the Senior / Principal Product Manager for Engine Networking, you will drive the multi-year vision, product strategy, and technical roadmap for Roblox’s core game engine networking stack and cloud game servers. Impacting over 130 million daily active players, your scope spans state replication, streaming protocols, asset delivery, caching, and cloud game server infrastructure. Partnering closely with Data Science, Engineering, Matchmaking, and Infrastructure teams, you will pioneer next-generation architectural capabilities—such as offline play capabilities and AI-driven networking optimizations to deliver step-function improvements in player latency and connection quality worldwide.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy, Roadmap & Architectural Execution

• Multi-Year Product Strategy: 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 upcoming offline play features, state replication enhancements, and low-latency asset streaming.
• Infrastructure Partnership: Collaborate with Infrastructure and Matchmaking teams to optimize network gameplay KPIs (e.g., glass-to-glass latency, packet loss, bandwidth efficiency) and inform future data center deployment strategies.
• AI & Frontier Tech Integration: Partner with engineering leadership to evaluate how advances in AI and emerging network protocols can generate step-function performance gains.

Data Rigor & Technical Enablement

• Data-Driven Evaluation: Define complex quantitative performance metrics alongside Data Science to analyze network experiment efficacy and extract signal from complex platform telemetry.
• Hands-On Execution & Alignment: Translate high-level product strategy into detailed technical specifications, ensuring seamless cross-functional alignment between engineering, design, and executive stakeholders.
• Product Mentorship: Elevate the product culture within the team, fostering an environment grounded in technical rigor, hypothesis-driven experimentation, and customer empathy.

Requirements

Technical Depth & Product Leadership Foundations

• Experience Track: 6+ years of technical product management experience, with a significant concentration in deeply technical, infrastructure-adjacent product domains.
• Technical Fluency: Computer Science degree (or equivalent practical technical background) with the ability to discuss low-level networking stacks, socket protocols, and system architecture directly with principal engineers.
• Strategic Leadership: Demonstrated capability to define multi-year technical product roadmaps and align cross-functional engineering and data science organizations behind a unified vision.
• Entrepreneurial Mindset: Proven "Founder" mindset—thriving in ambiguity, taking calculated risks with incomplete information, and scaling vague concepts into globally deployed capabilities.
• Analytical Mastery: Expertise in defining, tracking, and parsing complex telemetry metrics to measure performance improvements in multi-tenant environments.
• Executive Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of detailing technical specs for engineers while presenting high-level strategic narratives to non-technical executives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct product management experience with commercial game engines (e.g., Unreal Engine, Unity), low-latency networking protocols (UDP, QUIC, WebRTC), or User-Generated Content (UGC) gaming platforms.
• Deep familiarity with global edge deployment, real-time matchmaking algorithms, and cloud game hosting environments.

Total Rewards & Benefits

• Compensation & Equity: San Mateo base salary range ($280,540 – $330,950 USD) + competitive Roblox equity compensation package.
• Healthcare & Wellbeing: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance packages for employees and eligible dependents.
• Onsite Perks & Campus: Modern San Mateo headquarters featuring daily catered meals, team events, and state-of-the-art technical setups.
• Time Off & Retirement: Generous vacation policies, paid company holidays, paid parental leave, and 401(k) matching programs.