Engineering Manager, Notifications

Roblox Roblox · Consumer · San Mateo, CA · Software Engineering

Engineering Manager for the Notifications team at Roblox, responsible for backend, relevance, and client systems that deliver hundreds of millions of notifications across various surfaces. The role involves leading a team, fostering culture, owning high-scale systems, defining roadmaps, and partnering with stakeholders. Requires experience in engineering management, technical delivery in high-scale environments, and architectural discussions around ML systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Shape and grow a high-performing engineering team. Support engineers, ranging from junior to principal, in their development.
  2. Foster a team culture of collaboration, innovation, and engineering excellence; while getting things done.
  3. Take responsibility for high-scale systems to deliver Notifications to users on Roblox. Operate creatively to serve the needs of the community and Roblox.
  4. Own the team’s mission and outcomes. Work with stakeholders to define the team’s roadmap, and ensure execution.
  5. Partner with PM, Design, Data, and stakeholders across Roblox, to develop innovative solutions..

Skills

Required

  • 2+ years of experience as an engineering manager or tech lead manager
  • Excellence in collaborating with others, and in developing software engineers
  • proven track record of technical delivery in high-scale environments with complex constraints
  • Ability to contribute to architecture and implementation discussions around high-scale ML systems
  • Experience solving difficult problems involving both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders

What the JD emphasized

  • high-scale ML systems