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Engineering Manager - Service Communications
1 year ago
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.
Engineering Manager- Service Communications
As the engineering manager for Service Communications you will create, lead, and evolve the software infrastructure for communication between microservices at Roblox. Come help us create, support and evolve the infra that supports millions of containers that serve hundreds of millions of requests per second.
The Service Communications organization develops and operates:
- Service-to-service communication and networking (proxy management solutions including API Gateway, Traefik, Envoy, and in the future Service Mesh)
- API Frameworks, gRPC clients and in-datacenter communication protocol extensions and support
- Securing communication between services, providing observability and metrics for end services to debug network issues
You Are:
- Experienced (2+ years) in managing software engineering teams
- Experienced in building and supporting networks, systems and large-scale distributed infrastructure
- Customer, team, and quality oriented and like getting things done
You Will:
- Define and evolve the strategy for service-to-service communications in support of engineering teams across Roblox
- Lead the development of infrastructure to implement this strategy at global scale
- Lead, support, and grow a team of engineers building service communication technologies
This is a Hybrid role located in our San Mateo headquarters.
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.
Annual Salary Range
$315,850 — $383,910 USD
You’ll Love:
- Industry-leading compensation package
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- A rewarding 401k program
- Flexible vacation policy
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- At Roblox HQ:
- Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
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. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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