TLM (Tech Lead Manager) - Recommendation Systems (Homepage)

Roblox Corporation; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 295,000 - 345,000; Full time

Job summary

Roblox Corporation is seeking a Tech Lead Manager for the Homepage Recommendation Systems team. You will lead Backend and Data Engineers, shaping the end-to-end infrastructure powering Roblox’s discovery surfaces. Focus on scalable delivery, reliability, and impactful product outcomes.

The role requires strong leadership, deep experience with distributed systems, and a track record of delivering cross-functional initiatives that improve user experience and platform growth.

Qualifications

• 3+ years as Engineering Manager or Tech Lead Manager leading backend, data, ranking, or personalization teams.
• Strong depth in distributed systems and backend platforms.
• Proven track record delivering complex cross-functional initiatives with measurable impact.
• Experience growing engineers and building high-performing teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow Backend/Data Engineers for homepage discovery and related surfaces.
• Define and execute the technical roadmap for large-scale content discovery and personalization systems.
• Drive initiatives like real-time user signals, ranking observability, and Personalization-as-a-Platform.
• Partner with ML, Data Science, Product, Design, Frontend, Ads, and other teams to deliver measurable product impact.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, reliability, and operational health.

Skills

Distributed systems

Service-oriented architecture

High-throughput backend

Data infrastructure

ML-powered serving

Leadership/Engineering management

Job description

TLM (Tech Lead Manager) - Recommendation Systems (Homepage)

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 Home Infrastructure team builds the mission-critical backend and data systems that power Roblox’s Homepage and Experience Details Page, two of the highest-traffic surfaces on Roblox. These surfaces reach the vast majority of Roblox’s daily active users and are core drivers of discovery, engagement, retention, and platform growth.

We are a full-stack product infrastructure team responsible for content distribution across Roblox. Our systems support multiple modes of user interaction, including exploratory browsing, directed discovery, and personalized content recommendations across the many types of content that make up the Roblox ecosystem.

This team sits at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems, machine learning-powered personalization, data infrastructure, and product experimentation. We partner closely with Machine Learning, Data Science, Product, Design, Frontend, Ads, Marketplace, Virtual Economy, and other teams across Roblox to build the platforms that help users find the most relevant and engaging content.

As Engineering Manager for Home Infrastructure, you will lead a team of Backend and Data Engineers responsible for the end-to-end infrastructure powering Roblox’s most important discovery surfaces. You will guide the team’s technical strategy, grow engineering talent, and drive execution on high-impact systems that operate at massive scale.

You Will

• Lead and grow a high-performing team of Backend and Data Engineers responsible for the infrastructure powering Roblox’s Homepage and other Discovery product surfaces.
• Define and execute the technical roadmap for large-scale content discovery, personalization, ranking, data, and backend-serving systems.
• Drive high-impact initiatives such as Personalization-as-a-Platform, full-page personalization, real-time user signal infrastructure, and ranking observability.
• Partner closely with Machine Learning, Data Science, Product, Design, Frontend, Ads, Marketplace, Economy, Search, and Core Infrastructure teams to deliver measurable product impact.
• Build a strong engineering culture focused on technical excellence, reliability, experimentation, operational health, and talent development.

You Have

• 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager or Tech Lead Manager, ideally leading backend, data, ranking, recommendation, search, ads, or personalization teams.
• Strong technical depth in distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, high-throughput backend platforms, data infrastructure, or ML-powered serving systems.
• Experience leading teams that build and operate large-scale, consumer-facing production systems with high reliability and performance requirements.
• A track record of delivering complex, ambiguous, cross-functional technical initiatives with measurable product or business impact.
• Experience growing engineers, developing technical leaders, and building healthy, high-performing engineering teams.

You Are

• Technical and strategic: Able to guide architecture, roadmap, and execution across complex backend, data, and personalization systems.
• Impact-oriented: Focused on building systems that improve user experience, creator success, and Roblox’s long-term growth.
• Data-driven: Comfortable using metrics, experimentation, and evidence to guide product and engineering decisions.
• Collaborative: Effective at partnering across Product, ML, Data Science, Design, and engineering teams to align priorities and drive outcomes.
• A talent multiplier: Invested in coaching engineers, raising the engineering bar, and creating an environment where the team can do its best work.

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.