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Roblox
📍 San Mateo• $383.1K – $439.3K/yr
9mo 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. Roblox is seeking a visionary Director of Product Management for Ads Performance to lead the strategic development and execution of our advertising platform. This pivotal role involves building a cutting-edge performance based ad system to power advertising for developers and brands to connect with their audiences in innovative and impactful ways. Reporting directly to the VP Product - Ads and Commerce, you will be instrumental in crafting and driving a winning strategy for Roblox's advertising ambitions, significantly contributing to the company's growth and market leadership. This role will be based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA (hybrid with Tues-Thurs onsite). You Will: Define and Lead Strategy: Guide the overall product strategy and roadmap for Roblox’s performance based ad platform focusing on delivering to KPIs or game developers and brands. Be a Creative Thinker: Spearhead the creation of new formats that are organic to the user experience on the Roblox platform but can also deliver value to the advertisers Be a Cross-Functional Leader: Collaborate extensively with engineering, DSA, and design teams to develop features that accelerate Roblox's growth, ensuring the highest stan

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Roblox
📍 San Mateo• Full-time• $293.8K – $343.3K/yr
10mo 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. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Engineering Manager to join our Engine UI team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the development of our state-of-the-art game engine, building out User Interface capabilities across all of Roblox. No matter the platform, be it mobile, desktop or consoles, you will help enable our game developers to unlock, accelerate, and promote the creation of high quality, performant UI that empowers meaningful interaction. You Will: Lead the development on our C++ engine code that powers the foundational UI features in the world’s most popular games, as well as the Roblox App and Roblox Studio Take lead in authoring and reviewing API proposals to expose UI capability to Luau; our fast, Lua-derived scripting language that powers user-generated creation Manage Senior Engineers and provide technical guidance Work closely with our game developer community to help achieve their creative vision Have fun learning about what makes Roblox an amazing platform and place to work, while supplying to industry leading technologies You have: 8+ years of professional development experience and 5+ years of management experience Fluent programmin

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Roblox
📍 San Mateo• $63 – $77/hr
6 days 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. As a Technical Developer Connections Manager on the Developer Connections team, you’ll play a critical role in supporting and scaling Roblox’s creator ecosystem. You’ll act as a trusted technical partner to high-impact creators across strategic genres (RPG, FPS, Sports) , supporting their growth, technical execution, and long-term success on the platform. You’ll support priority escalations and collaborate closely with product and engineering teams during platform incidents, while also designing internal tools and automation to improve operational efficiency and support quality. With deep expertise in Roblox Studio, performance optimization, and live-operations troubleshooting, you’ll help creators build stable, high-performing experiences while strengthening long-term relationships across the platform. You will: Serve as a technical point of contact for creators, providing hands-on support, guidance, and best practices. Diagnose and resolve performance, stability, and scalability issues in live games and experiences. Own and manage high-priority creator escalations, including participation in an on-call rotation covering weekends and holidays (with flexible scheduling and compensatory time

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Roblox
📍 San Mateo• Full-time• From $399.4K/yr
2mo 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. Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital games – 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 game 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 games for everyone. About the role: Roblox Studio is the creation engine behind millions of immersive 3D games built by creators around the world. It serves everyone from first-time developers to large professional studios, combining a powerful real-time engine with a deeply expressive toolchain. Studio is a demanding piece of software in its own right—a high-performance desktop application and IDE that must stay fast and responsive while creators build, script,

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Roblox
📍 San Mateo• Full-time• From $146.1K/yr
2mo 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. At Roblox, we are growing and looking for a Technical Sourcer (short-term) to help build, scale, and influence our recruiting landscape. We are a fun and collaborative team focused on recruiting engineering talent. This person is a strong communicator, collaborator, and leads by example. Successful Builders embrace change and we encourage bringing in fresh ideas and a culture of feedback. You will directly impact the growth of the company and support our scaling efforts. The role is 6-12 month, with extensions possible depending on performance and business needs. We follow a hybrid schedule out of our San Mateo office, requiring in-office presence Tuesday–Thursday. You Will: Partner closely with Roblox recruiters and business leaders to deeply understand each team’s goals and talent needs, then identify, attract, and engage top candidates who will drive our mission forward Proactively source and engage top talent through Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOut, and other platforms Influence and improve processes to help the team work smarter, faster, and at scale Share talent market insights with hiring managers to guide decisions on leveling, compensation, and candidate profiles Mentor and coach

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Roblox
📍 San Mateo• Full-time• $399.4K – $458K/yr
3mo 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. About the role: Roblox Studio is the creation engine behind millions of immersive 3D games built by creators around the world. We are entering a major platform transition, evolving Studio into an AI-Native IDE where intelligent systems plan, act, validate, and iterate alongside creators to amplify their output. We are seeking a Technical Director, Applied AI to own the technical direction of the agentic AI systems embedded deeply into Roblox Studio. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role operating at the intersection of platform engineering, AI systems, and developer experience, where you will set the technical direction, design the architecture, and write the code. You will: Design and build the agentic AI systems at the core of the AI-Native IDE (planning, execution, validation, evaluation) so they are production-grade and reliable. Decide how Studio uses coding models, agents, retrieval, tool calling, and context management across the Assistant and the broader creator workflow. Own the quality bar and evaluation strategy , standing up quantitative and qualitative eval pipelines, including human-in-the-loop, so we ship with confidence. Optimize these systems for latency, throughpu

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Roblox
📍 San Mateo• Full-time• From $280.5K/yr
2mo 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. As the Senior/Principal Product Manager for Engine Systems Foundations, you will drive the vision and strategy for the most foundational parts of the Roblox game engine and be hands-on with the execution and delivery of products that impact over 130 million players every day. This team is responsible for the core performance, reliability, and efficiency of the engine, and it owns key features like our memory allocation library, thread/work dispatch system, and the backing APIs that power our creator performance tooling. If you are a visionary product leader who thrives on deeply technical challenges to improve the speed and quality of a system, you’ll be a great fit! The role is based in San Mateo, CA (hybrid with Tues-Thurs onsite). You will: Define the long-term vision and strategy for Systems Foundations, ensuring we have plans in place to continually invest in the core pieces of a high-performance, realtime game engine. Take ownership of the engine-related content in the public Creator Analytics creators use to monitor the experiences on Roblox, ensuring we’re delivering actionable insights. Work with the Creator organization to define and drive end-to-end performance workfl

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Roblox
📍 San Mateo• $280.5K – $331K/yr
2mo 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. As the Senior/Principal Product Manager for Engine Networking, you will drive the vision and strategy for the game engine networking stack/server aspect of our client-server architecture and be hands-on with the execution and delivery of products that impact over 130 million players every day. This team is responsible for the fundamental competitive game networking stack, from replication and streaming to asset delivery and caching, and our cloud game servers. This includes close partnerships with our broader Infrastructure and Matchmaking teams to ensure our systems are getting the most out of our infrastructure and our players the best experience possible. If you are a visionary product leader who thrives on deeply technical challenges and loves networks, you’ll be a great fit! The role is based in San Mateo, CA (hybrid with Tues-Thurs onsite). You will: Define the long-term vision and strategy for Engine Networking, ensuring we have plans in place to continually invest in the core pieces of a high-performance, realtime connected game engine. Drive execution of new architectural systems, such as our upcoming offline play feature. Work with the Infrastructure organ

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Roblox
📍 San Mateo• Full-time• From $248.7K/yr
5mo 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. WHY DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS? The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency, and acumen of our business decisions and to empower and scale product innovations. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum, including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling, economics, and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product groups, we use this vast tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products and measure the impact / incrementality on our community of players, developers, and advertisers. WHY ADVERTISING SCIENCE? Advertising at Roblox is new, facing critical scale, effectiveness, and implementation challenges, while operating in our civility and user focused experiences. As a new strategic area, work will be innovative and impactful. Scientific rigor will be critical in success as we organize our data model, design principled measurement systems, and architect the future of incrementality measurement and actioning, to enable our communities. In this role, you will contribute to the new A

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26 days 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. Roblox Premium is the subscription product that gives our most engaged users an upgraded experience on the platform.It is one of the biggest growth opportunities in our economy. As Principal Product Manager for Subscriptions and Revenue Growth, you will own the long-term strategy and roadmap for subscriptions: what subscribers get, why they join, why they stay, and how the subscription business compounds over time. You will work across nearly every team at Roblox, and directly with our developer community, to build benefits that only a subscription can deliver. This is a player-coach role for a product leader who wants scope and influence, and who is energized by owning a business outcome end to end. This role is based in San Mateo, CA (no remote option) and reports to the Sr. Director Product, Economy. You will: Own the long-term strategy and roadmap for Roblox subscriptions, including the subscriber value proposition, tiering, pricing, and the multi-year vision for where the product goes next. Drive acquisition and retention as a business owner : grow the subscriber base, improve conversion through the funnel, reduce churn, and expand internationally. Define and ship new subscriber benefi

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Roblox
📍 San Mateo• Full-time• From $196.8K/yr
4mo 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. 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 and proactively detect, remove, and prevent problematic content and behavior, and we make Roblox accounts secure and free from compromise. We also keep the platform compliant for changing regulations and growth markets. We cover a broad area of the tech spectrum, including machine learning, experimentation, automation, highly scalable distributed backend systems, 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 CONTENT SUITABILITY? Join the Content Suitability team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of content on Roblox. Our team is at the forefront of building tools and systems that enable creators to launc

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Roblox
📍 San Mateo• Full-time• $233.6K – $269.2K/yr
5mo 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. As a Senior Security Software Engineer for Infrastructure Security you will be a part of the Information Security organization and report to the Senior Manager of Infrastructure Security. You will help shape the future of Platform Security at Roblox. We work closely with Production IAM, Network Security, and Cloud Security at Roblox. You Will: Identify security gaps and threats in our cloud and on premise infrastructure, partnering with Governance Risk and Compliance teams to create standards and policies along the way. This will help Roblox meet regulatory and compliance requirements. Harden our infrastructure by introducing secure by default configurations, designs and guardrails for all developers at Roblox. Own and drive solutions that enable Roblox engineers to design, build, and use infrastructure securely at scale. Work closely with other InfoSec teams (AppSec, D&R, GRC, CorpSec, CloudSec, NetSec) and partner with engineering teams across Roblox, specifically the Infrastructure organization, to ensure the secure outcomes of security and product driven initiatives. You Have: 5+ years of experience writing code and/or relevant technical experience. Experience with

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Roblox
📍 San Mateo• Full-time• $280.5K – $331K/yr
5mo 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. Roblox is a rich ecosystem encompassing varied product categories across nearly all platforms (mobile, desktop, console, VR, etc.). Keeping our app performant, scalable, and reliable requires a robust technical architecture to empower thousands of engineers to build at scale. As the Senior Product Manager for this space, you’ll drive the creation of foundational systems like our multi-process architecture, resource management systems, and key observability frameworks that power the heart of the Roblox App. You will: Define the capabilities and inner workings of critical systems like our process lifecycle manager, asset download orchestrator and critical observability frameworks like our sessionization system. Drive a multi-year roadmap to modernize our App Architecture across key themes like modularization, network resiliency, and resource efficiency. Dive deep into problem spaces with Engineering to ideate new systems to scale our App. Drive the roadmap for Observability & Logging Systems. Dive deep into monitoring & triage workflows, identifying gaps to create new features and systems that extend our capabilities Empower our customers. Every feature team across Roblox

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5mo 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. About the role: Roblox is a rich ecosystem encompassing varied product categories across nearly all platforms (mobile, desktop, console, VR, etc.). Keeping our app performant, scalable, and reliable requires a robust technical architecture to empower thousands of engineers to build at scale. As the Senior Product Manager for this space, you’ll drive the creation of foundational systems like our multi-process architecture, resource management systems, and key observability frameworks that power the heart of the Roblox App. You will: Understand, influence, and expand the company’s thinking on central themes like Performance, Reliability, and Maintainability, working together with partner teams on App Performance and Infra Reliability to accomplish shared goals. Define the capabilities and inner workings of critical systems like our process lifecycle manager, asset download orchestrator and critical observability frameworks like our sessionization system. Drive a multi-year roadmap to modernize our App Architecture across key themes like modularization, network resiliency, and resource efficiency. Dive deep into problem spaces with Engineering to ideate new systems to scale our App.&nbsp

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Roblox
📍 San Mateo• $278.5K – $345K/yr
7 days 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. Why Roblox & Agent Infra The Agent Infra team builds the infrastructure that runs autonomous AI agents at Roblox for millions of creators building experiences on our platform, and for thousands of Roblox engineers shipping production code every day. Agent workloads break the assumptions most infrastructure is built on. They run for hours instead of milliseconds, they’re non-deterministic, they execute code nobody wrote, and they need real credentials against real systems to be useful at all. Making that safe, durable, and cost-effective at Roblox’s scale is the hard problem our team is solving. As an early member of the Agent Infra team, you’ll work alongside an experienced engineering team on systems that are already in front of real users, at scale, in a field that didn’t exist two years ago. You Are Demonstrated experience: 8+ years building and operating backend, distributed, or infrastructure systems in production, including systems you designed that held up at scale for years. Deep expertise in at least one of our core domains: workflow orchestration, scalable backend infrastructure, agentic runtimes, or secure sandboxing and access. Hands-on: You spend most of your time building,

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