Engineering Manager

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.

A key aspect of immersive experience is performance - less friction means players want to stay longer and come back for more. As the Engineering Manager for Consumer Apps - Performance, you will lead a team focused on making Roblox more performant, responsive, and resilient across all supported platforms - mobile, desktop, console. You'll drive research of performance optimization opportunities, and long-term strategy for regression defense and architecture improvements. Your work will directly influence company-level goals around monetization, engagement and retention.

This role is based at Roblox HQ in San Mateo, CA (no remote option).

You Will:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team. Support engineers, ranging from junior to senior, in their development.
• Foster a team culture of collaboration, innovation, and engineering excellence; while getting things done. 
• Define and execute the product and technical strategy for performance improvements and regression defense across all supported platforms
• Own the team’s mission and outcomes. Work with stakeholders to define the team’s roadmap, and ensure execution. 
• Partner with PM, Data, and stakeholders across Roblox, to identify opportunities, analyze impact, create novel solutions and establish processes aimed to improve application performance.

You Have:

• 2+ years of experience as an engineering manager or tech lead manager.
• 8+ years of experience building large client applications with a deep technical expertise in at least one of the client platforms - Android, iOS, Windows, or MacOS
• Excellence in collaborating with others, and in developing software engineers. You have demonstrated outcomes of facilitating team success and leading by example.
• A proven track record of technical delivery in high-scale environments with complex constraints
• Experience solving difficult problems involving both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders

You Are: 

• Proactive: You operate with a sense of urgency, initiating conversations and workflow that pushes product strategy and the team forward 
• A product owner: You champion for changes that align with the needs of our users and closely collaborate with Product Managers to build into the roadmap 
• Team Oriented: You are constantly looking at how to make the team stronger – both the team you directly manage, and the team of peers you collaborate with.
• Solution Oriented: You start with the problem to be solved, and stay laser-focused on getting it solved. You can tackle anything that comes your way, whether it’s a technical problem, a business problem, or a people problem.