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 Engineering Acceleration team at Roblox delivers a world-class internal engineering experience to the 2,000+ engineers who write, build, and ship the most incredible platform for creativity in the world. The
Foundations pod owns the systems at the heart of how Roblox builds software: source control, code search, code review, artifact management, continuous integration, and cloud development environments.
As the
Engineering Manager for the pod, you will lead a growing team of 6 engineers responsible for these critical engineering tools. You will own both the day-to-day operational excellence of our core engineering infrastructure and the strategy to scale these systems for AI-powered development. This is an impactful role supporting the entire company; it is ideal for a people-first leader energized by operational ownership who cares deeply about the engineering experience.
You Will:
- Lead, coach, and grow a team of world-class engineers, hiring, onboarding, regular 1:1s, performance, and active career development that supports each engineer's growth at Roblox.
- Own the reliability and operational health of Tier 0 infrastructure, including GitHub (Enterprise & Cloud), Artifactory, Sourcegraph, GitHub Actions, the CI runner fleet, and cloud development environments.
- Develop deep cross-functional partnerships across the company, supporting all engineering groups and roles. Interact directly with your customers day in and day out.
- Define and drive the roadmap, balancing operational excellence with strategic investments in automation, modernization, and AI-integrated workflows.
- Champion data-driven priorities, such as CI/CD success rates, PR cycle times, and engineer satisfaction, while regularly communicating productivity insights to leadership.
You Have:
- 3+ years managing or leading engineering teams, on top of a strong individual-contributor engineering background (BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience).
- A track record of owning and delivering developer-facing or infrastructure systems at scale.
- Strong working knowledge of source control and CI infrastructure; experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, Artifactory, or Sourcegraph is a strong plus.
- Familiarity with common cloud and container technologies like AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Hashistack (Nomad, Vault, Terraform).
- Demonstrated operational leadership: incident response, sustainable on-call, and a reliability- and compliance-minded approach to critical systems.
- A proven ability to hire, grow, and retain engineers, and to coach their career development.
You Are:
- Passionate about every engineer’s daily experience, informed by deep technical knowledge and a customer-focused mindset.
- A calm, decisive operational leader who works well with whatever comes their way.
- A thoughtful manager and strong communicator who champions the personal and professional growth of their team.
Bonus Points
- Experience scaling or migrating git, artifact systems, CI platforms, or cloud development environments.
- Hands-on experience bringing LLM-powered tooling into engineering workflows.
- Background partnering on secure SDLC, artifact hygiene, and modern compliance practices.
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 as described on
this page.
Annual Salary Range
$295,250-$345,040 USD
Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
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. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.
For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.