Senior Engineering Manager Platform in San Mateo

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. As a Senior Software Engineer on our Geometry team, you will drive foundational algorithms for real-time 3D content creation and editing that power the Roblox platform. Working in a small, autonomous team, you will solve novel math computational problems and deliver immersive, expressive creative tools to millions of users. At this level, you are expected to own pod-level or team-level projects from inception to implementation, provide technical direction to junior collaborators, and contribute to the team’s long-term technical strategy. You Will: Own End-to-End Development: Lead complex, team-level projects through the full development lifecycle, from research and prototyping to production deployment and maintenance. Architect Robust Solutions: Develop efficient algorithms for geometry processing (e.g., convex decomposition, mesh partitioning, boolean operations) that support real-time simulation, collision detection, and performance requirements across all platforms. Mentor and Lead: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of high standards, code quality, and collaborative architectural discussions. Solve Computational Problems: Tackle discrete m

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. Why Safety? At Roblox, we strive to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and the Safety organization’s mission is to become the leader in civil immersive online communities. We systematically detect, remove, and prevent problematic content and behavior, and we make Roblox accounts secure and free from compromise. We cover a broad area of the tech spectrum, including machine learning, classifiers for 3D models, experimentation, automation, detection workflows, and AI-powered text filters. Aligned and partnering with product teams, we use this tool belt to discover new opportunities, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build safety products, and measure the impact on our community of users and developers. In doing so, we keep Roblox safe, civil, and inclusive, and we foster positive relationships between people around the world. Why Safety Foundation? Safety Foundation is the infrastructure backbone that powers safety across Roblox. Every piece of content reviewed, every moderation action taken, every safety workflow running anywhere on the platform flows through systems built by this team. We are the platform that other safety teams build on — and righ

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. ML Platform @ Roblox today supports hundreds of ML use cases and billions of inferences per day across Discovery, Safety, Engine, and much more. As an Infrastructure Engineer on the ML Platform team, you will design, scale, and maintain the foundational infrastructure powering our entire machine learning ecosystem. We are looking for accomplished engineers to spearhead the development of our next-generation ML tooling and platform capabilities. You will: Bootstrap and maintain Kubernetes and Cloud infrastructure for ML Platform components--Serving Layer, Metadata Store, Model Registry, and Pipeline Orchestrator. Set technical strategy and oversee development of high scale and reliable infrastructure systems. Propose and implement new platform tooling to improve time to production for MLEs and Data Scientists across the full ML lifecycle. Work on infrastructure projects such as GPU fleet management, hybrid-cloud orchestration, and writing custom Kubernetes controllers and resources. Stay abreast of industry trends in machine learning and infrastructure to ensure the adoption of leading-edge technologies and practices. Partner across organizations to build tooling, interfaces, and visualizati

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 Consumer Apps Consoles team owns the console app foundation that makes Roblox feel fast, fluid, and reliable for millions of players and is dedicated to delivering superior performance, reliability, and user experience on PlayStation and Xbox. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Consoles team, you'll be a driving technical force — leading complex client work end-to-end, raising the quality bar across our codebase, and partnering closely with product, design, and platform teams to ship experiences that are polished and performant at scale. You Will: Shape & improve the PlayStation and Xbox experience that millions of players see every day Translate ambiguous product ideas into well-scoped, high-quality engineering plans in close partnership with product, design, and data science. Raise the engineering bar through rigorous code review, proactive mentorship of junior engineers, and the standards you set in your own code. Drive platform-level investments that benefit the broader engineering organization. Work with our Xbox and PlayStation counterparts to ensure feature parity and platform-specific excellence. You Have: 5+ years of experience building and shipping client software, with

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 Consumer App Foundation team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to improve Roblox performance across our supported platforms. Our platform is used by over 150M people daily. You will work primarily in cross-platform C++ Roblox game engine code, partnering with teams across the company to identify bottlenecks, ship measurable improvements, and prevent regressions over time. Our team is responsible for the end-to-end performance of the Roblox client on Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Xbox, Playstation and TV. We tackle the platform’s most difficult technical constraints, ranging from speed and responsiveness to efficiency and stability, to ensure a high-performance experience across all of our devices and platforms. You will: Own the end-to-end performance of the Roblox client across all platforms directly moving the needle on our key metrics: TTI, app size, battery usage and more. Build the benchmarking, profiling, and telemetry systems required to catch regressions early and continue scaling our application even further. Collaborate closely with stakeholders across Engineering, Product, and Design to evaluate technical tradeoffs, align on company-wide priorities, and

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. As a Senior Software Engineer on our Release Engineering team, you will build the systems that hundreds of engineers across Roblox use every day to safely ship code to tens of millions of concurrent players. Your work will empower teams to ship bold, high-impact changes quickly and confidently on every device Roblox runs on. If you enjoy building developer-facing infrastructure where reliability and blast radius directly impact end-users, you will be right at home on our growing team. You Will: Design and develop backend services and automation that power our release and experimentation process across desktop, mobile, console, VR, and servers Work in C++ engine code to improve telemetry reporting, enhance feature rollout and automatic abort capabilities, and extend release functionality Build progressive client and server rollout, regression detection, and automated rollback systems that keep our weekly multi-platform releases safe at scale Work directly with engineering customers to turn pain points into durable, flexible, and safe-by-default tooling You Have: 5+ years building backend services with C#, Python, TypeScript, or similar Familiar with and comfortable working with C++ Familiar

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. As an Economy Fraud engineer, you defend Roblox from all types of fraud, including theft, scams, money laundering, and payment fraud. Roblox is a high-growth, unique product environment. You will be developing anti-fraud and abuse solutions for web, mobile, and 3D environments. This high impact work and your innovation is critical for the well-being of our community and to the future of our company. We aim for our users to have peace of mind that their communities and transactions are protected. Our defenses also protect our company’s rapid expansion and safeguard billions in revenue. Roblox’s virtual marketplace handles over 4 million transactions a day, and enables our top developers to make millions of dollars a year. Our team’s challenges are not just regular day-to-day technical challenges. Fraud and abuse approaches need to shift over time, depending on the current behaviors of fraudsters. As an Economy Fraud engineer, you will be in a data-driven environment developing both classical and novel approaches to detect and prevent this bad behavior. You Have: 4+ years of professional experience working with scalable, distributed systems Strong experience in large-scale, data-driven

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. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Communications team, you'll own the backend systems that power chat and messaging for millions of players on Roblox and support billions of messages per day. Your day-to-day will focus on building and scaling the infrastructure that makes in-game communication fast, safe, and reliable. That means driving architectural decisions, creating communication modes that don't exist yet, and defining developer-facing APIs so creators can build richer experiences. You'll work closely with frontend engineers, platform, product, and design, and you'll have real influence over the technical and product direction of the team. If you're an experienced engineer who gets excited about large-scale distributed systems and wants to shape the way millions of people connect inside virtual worlds, we'd love to talk. You Will Build and scale backend infrastructure for millions of concurrent users, architecting high-throughput distributed services, integrating ML models, and enabling rapid product experimentation Equip creators with the APIs and tools to build deeply integrated social experiences in their games Own projects end-to-end: from design and architecture through produc

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 Ads User Experience team at Roblox is dedicated to developing cutting-edge software and integrations that facilitate ads on Roblox. Our focus lies in building a first-of-its-kind ads system in our Game Engine. We are developing different ad formats and integrations, starting with video. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with an expertise in C++. This is a high-impact position. Ads at Roblox is at the beginning of our journey, presenting an amazing opportunity to get in at the ground floor and help build a multi-billion dollar business from scratch. We are approaching this challenge with a strong focus on performance and a deep respect for our community — ensuring everyone continues to have an exceptional experience on Roblox. As we move toward enabling cooperative experiences for an infinite number of players in infinitely scalable worlds, we are looking for a Senior Engineer who is both technically exceptional and capable of delivering meaningful, real-world impact. You Will: Help build a first-of-its-kind ads system within the Roblox Game Engine Develop new ad formats and integrations, starting with video Contribute to the design and performance of systems that

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. Roblox's data infrastructure processes petabytes of data daily, powering analytics, ML, and product decisions. As a Senior Software Engineer in our Data Infra org, you will design, build, and scale the distributed data infrastructure platforms that power Roblox. You will own and drive the next-generation architecture of our core platforms, which span Kafka, Flink, Spark, Trino, Druid, Airflow and Data Catalog. This role combines high ambiguity and ownership to push the boundaries of what our infrastructure can handle at massive scale, giving you the unique opportunity to steer the evolution of the data landscape. You Will: Own and Scale Core Platform Components: Take responsibility for the design, architecture, and implementation of 1–2 key data platform frameworks within our stack Collaborate and Align: Partner with infra, data science, and product engineering teams to ensure your target platform's capabilities are directly guided by platform governance and product requirements. Optimize Performance at Scale: Dive deep into engine internals, query planning, state management, memory optimization, serialization efficiency to maximize throughput and reliability under heavy load. Drive Infrast

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. With Roblox’s daily active users growing at a record pace, we are seeking a senior data infrastructure engineer to join our new Data Insights team. Our team owns the data tooling that empowers Roblox builders to independently make informed and timely data-driven decisions. As an engineer on the team, you’ll work on the platforms behind tools like Superset, Hex, and Python notebooks, which provide critical insights into the health of our business to users at every level of the company. We tackle diverse challenges in data engineering, infrastructure, and analytics, to deliver the insights our customers need. You will collaborate closely with engineers across our data ecosystem to shape the future of product analytics at Roblox. This role offers the chance to be a founding team member and help define both the technical direction and the long-term shape of the product area from the ground up. This role is a great fit for you if you are proficient in designing and scale robust data infrastructure and applications and have a zeal for developing inspiring, easily maintainable, and reusable code. Join our team and make a significant impact at Roblox. You Will: Architect and deliver a high-pe

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. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Privacy Infrastructure team, you’ll design and build large-scale systems that operate across Roblox’s platform and data ecosystem. You’ll tackle complex distributed systems challenges, develop reliable and scalable infrastructure, and work across engineering teams to deliver foundational capabilities that serve millions of users. This is an opportunity to take on high-impact technical problems at Roblox scale while helping shape the next generation of our infrastructure. You Will Design, build, and scale reliable infrastructure and platform solutions that protect user data and support the needs of a global platform. Develop foundational capabilities for emerging technologies, including agentic AI workflows, with a focus on safe and responsible data access. Partner with engineering teams across Roblox to integrate scalable data protection capabilities into their systems and development workflows Drive technical strategy and architecture for complex, cross-cutting challenges spanning data, infrastructure, privacy, and security. You Have 7+ years of proven experience as a software engineer. Expertise in Python or Golang; Strong understanding of system

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. As a Senior Cloud Security Engineer, you will define and implement the security strategy and controls across our hybrid and multi-cloud environment. Embedded within the Platform Security team, you will operate with a high degree of autonomy, partnering closely with Infosec and Infrastructure teams to secure our cloud infrastructure. Your architectural decisions will directly impact the security of a global platform. You Will: Create Paved Roads: Build innovative services and tooling that make the secure path the easiest path, enabling developers to deploy faster and safer. Engineer Self-Healing Infrastructure: Architect and scale systems that monitor our cloud posture and automatically enforce a self-healing security baseline. Design Secure-by-Default Blueprints: Partner deeply with infrastructure teams to bake threat modeling and secure-by-default patterns into the core DNA of our cloud environments. Implement Effective Guardrails: Deploy organizational security controls that protect our developers without slowing them down. Advance Detections: Write and optimize detections tailored specifically to our footprint. You Have: 4+ years: of relevant professional experience. Experience writing a

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. As a member of the Roblox Security Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) team, you will play a key role in supporting the Security team’s mission. The GRC team is at the heart of Roblox's security organization — empowering every builder to make risk-informed decisions by establishing a portfolio of governing policies and standards, a repeatable and scalable method of assessing and quantifying risk, and a formal oversight process for GRC capabilities across Roblox. Our program takes a balanced, "right-sized" approach to security governance — combining qualitative and quantitative risk management methodologies, including Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR), to assess and prioritize the security risks that matter most to Roblox. GRC partners closely with Engineering, Legal, Finance, and leadership — including providing regular reporting to the Board of Directors and the Audit & Compliance Committee — to ensure that security risk is visible, well-understood, and actioned appropriately. The team is in an exciting phase of growth and innovation. We are using engineering to drive automation across risk management, policy lifecycle management, supply chain risk, AI risk, and controls pr

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 Security organization at Roblox is responsible for designing and engineering secure systems from inception through production. We define security standards, build scalable controls, and enable product and infrastructure teams to operate securely by default. The Application Security team partners closely with engineering teams early in the development lifecycle to drive secure architectures, establish standards, and deliver scalable security solutions. As a Senior Security Software Engineer - Application Security , you will be a hands-on engineer who designs, builds, and ships security solutions that integrate directly into developer workflows and platforms. You will play a key role in scaling application security through automation, CI/CD integrations, secure libraries, and reusable patterns. In this role, you will help define how security is embedded across the software development lifecycle at Roblox, balancing deep technical work (threat modeling, code review, penetration testing) with systemic solutions that reduce risk at scale. You will also participate in AppSec on-call rotations and contribute to security tooling and platform evolution. You will: Integrate security into CI/CD pi