Senior Product Manager, Compute Infrastructure - Roblox
San Mateo, CA
About the Job
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 Infrastructure Group at Roblox is responsible for designing, building, and operating the core systems that power Roblox, including storage, compute, networking, security, and engineering efficiency. These systems are built to scale, supporting 88.9 million daily active users, delivering exabytes of content, and handling over 250 million concurrent connections.
Every day, Roblox engineers deploy thousands of different microservices to power Roblox, our website, AI/ML, currency transactions, and many other use cases. The serverless computing infrastructure is a key part of Roblox’s core infrastructure providing us flexibility in managing dynamic workloads, maintaining resilience to failures, reducing latency to our global users, and optimizing cost. As we continue to grow as a team and as a company, we are looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy for our serverless compute architecture. While the impact of this role extends beyond internal engineering teams, this is an internal facing role with your direct customers being Roblox engineers.
You will:
- Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the serverless computing infrastructure and its features/components
- Collaborate with design, engineering, and other team members to prioritize features and drive product development from concept to launch
- Leverage metrics to iterate on the strategy and improve features and user experience
- Stay informed about industry trends and new technologies to advise product decisions
- Communicate product updates, achievements, and priorities effectively to team members across the organization
- Ensure a seamless and intuitive user experience for our users by leveraging your experience in user-centered design principles
You have:
- 5+ years of Product Management experience in compute infrastructure, developer tooling/platforms, with expertise in shipping high-quality products
- Experience defining, managing or driving adoption of infrastructure and developer products
- Expertise in navigating platform product development, with deep experience in internal stakeholder management
- The ability to clearly communicate complex concepts, including roadmaps, priorities, experiments and decisions across a wide spectrum of audiences
- Demonstrated technical proficiency and effectiveness working closely with engineers
- Proven ability to unite cross-functional teams, driving cohesive collaboration to deliver on ambitious goals, align products with stakeholder expectations, and conduct rapid experimentation to achieve measurable outcomes
- Experience leading cross-functional execution with various teams including engineering, data science, security and design to conceptualize, develop, test, and launch impactful tools tailored to user needs and preferences
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.
Roles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
You’ll Love:
- Industry-leading compensation package
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- A rewarding 401k program
- Flexible vacation policy (varies by exemption status)
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- At Roblox HQ:
- Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
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 for all candidates during the interview process.
