Senior Engineering Manager, Communications

📋 Description

• Lead, grow, and develop a team of software engineers building the in-game text chat platform, setting a high bar for engineering excellence, ownership, and career growth.
• Own the technical vision and multi-quarter roadmap for real-time text messaging, balancing new product capabilities against scale, latency, reliability, and cost.
• Drive the architecture and evolution of messaging systems that reliably deliver billions of messages per day at low latency to a global, cross-platform audience.
• Partner with product and design to shape a compelling communication experience — treating chat as a product, not just infrastructure — and translate ambiguous goals into concrete plans and shipped features.
• Collaborate closely with Trust & Safety, Policy, and ML teams to ensure every messaging experience is safe and civil by design for a young, global user base.
• Establish strong engineering practices around quality, observability, on-call health, and operational excellence for systems that must always be available.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years software eng exp, incl 3+ years leading and growing teams.
• Shipped consumer-facing products at scale—messaging or real-time.
• Strong product intuition balancing UX, complexity, and speed.
• Deep experience designing/operating large-scale distributed systems with reliability and latency focus.
• Proven ability to attract and retain strong engineers; builds healthy teams.
• Excellent cross-functional leadership and communication across product, design, and engineering.

🎁 Benefits

• Equity compensation for all full-time employees.
• Benefits described on the Roblox careers page.
• On-site Tue-Thu; optional Mon/Fri.