Senior Engineering Manager, Communications
Core
Lead the engineering team and technical vision for Roblox's in-game text chat platform, serving hundreds of millions of users with billions of daily messages.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager (Communications)
Builds
Real-time text messaging systems for 2D and 3D immersive experiences across mobile, console, and desktop.
Domain
Consumer social platform / Real-time distributed systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Software engineering leadership, distributed systems architecture, product strategy, team building, cross-functional collaboration, operational excellence, high-throughput system design
Preferred skills
Real-time messaging protocols, presence systems, trust & safety, content moderation, cross-platform product development
Responsibilities
Lead and develop a team of software engineers for the chat platform; Own the technical roadmap balancing scale, latency, and reliability; Drive architecture for high-volume message delivery; Partner with product and design to shape user experience; Collaborate with Trust & Safety and ML teams; Establish engineering practices for quality and observability.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities
