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Engineering Manager, Creator Content
2 years ago
Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to Roblox to play, learn, work, and socialize in immersive digital experiences created by the community. Our vision is to build a platform that enables shared experiences among billions of users. This is what’s known as the metaverse: a persistent space where anyone can do just about anything they can imagine, from anywhere in the world and on any device. Join us and you’ll usher in a new category of human interaction while solving exceptional challenges that you won’t find anywhere else.
Roblox's engineering team is growing and we are looking for a leader to help us scale. As an Engineering Manager in the Developer group focusing specifically on our Creator Cloud - Creator Content you will lead both the technical vision of how creator content will be ingested and stored on the Roblox platform. Our vision is to make all user generated content universally accessible, for developers, and for users. You will lead multiple important features such as storing the contents and providing low latency accessible to those contents. The content platform is one of the highest scale systems in Roblox and being used by over 3 million Roblox creators every month.
At Roblox we move fast and ship code to production daily; your leadership will increase productivity by removing obstacles and keeping processes lean. You will find and address risk and make sure the technology outpaces our growth. Roblox teams are inclusive, helpful, and take care of the things they build. You will fit right in with our experienced and ever-expanding engineering team.
You Are:
- Battle ready: You have experience defining architecture for millions of users and are excited about technical challenges. You can be hands-on and still establish an architecture from scratch and make sure it can scale from a few users to hundreds of millions.
- Experienced: You have 5+ years of experience in large-scale software deployments with experience leading large teams (10+) and delivering performant technical solutions. You own a BS in Computer Science, or advanced degree is a definite plus.
- Knowledgeable: You understand all the components required to build modern large-scale ML and search systems. You can recommend one route versus another and bring a team of engineers to agreement. You also love to pick up new technologies as the landscape evolves. It will be a plus if you are a CS PhD on Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, AI/ML and have 1st author publications in top conferences.
- Versatile: You have mastered several languages and technologies already
- Creative: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems and driving new tools/functionality for our developers
- Team-oriented: You have a personality that invigorates the team around you and you are used to leading technical teams in any situation.
You Will:
- Grow our organization by attracting and retaining passionate team members in the industry.
- Become an expert on our technology stack.
- Balance researching new technologies with a practical approach to accomplish the research efforts into the Roblox products.
- Author specs for new features and improvement.
- Lead other engineers by example and through technical direction.
- Collaborate with different teams to improve existing and develop new functionality, pipelines, and workflow.
- Be guided by our vision to put the Roblox community first and represent us through experience.
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
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
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