Engineering Manager (App Performance)

As the Engineering Manager for Consumer Apps - Performance, you will lead a team focused on making Roblox more performant, responsive, and resilient across all supported platforms - mobile, desktop, console.

You’ll drive research of performance optimization opportunities, and long-term strategy for regression defense and architecture improvements. Your work will directly influence company-level goals around monetization, engagement and retention

Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team. Support engineers, ranging from junior to senior, in their development

Foster a team culture of collaboration, innovation, and engineering excellence; while getting things done

Define and execute the product and technical strategy for performance improvements and regression defense across all supported platforms

Own the team’s mission and outcomes. Work with stakeholders to define the team’s roadmap, and ensure execution

Partner with PM, Data, and stakeholders across Roblox, to identify opportunities, analyze impact, create novel solutions and establish processes aimed to improve application performance

Experience solving difficult problems involving both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders

8+ years of experience building large client applications with a deep technical expertise in at least one of the client platforms - Android, iOS, Windows, or MacOS

Team Oriented: You are constantly looking at how to make the team stronger – both the team you directly manage, and the team of peers you collaborate with

2+ years of experience as an engineering manager or tech lead manager

Proactive: You operate with a sense of urgency, initiating conversations and workflow that pushes product strategy and the team forward

You Are:

Solution Oriented: You start with the problem to be solved, and stay laser-focused on getting it solved. You can tackle anything that comes your way, whether it’s a technical problem, a business problem, or a people problem

A proven track record of technical delivery in high-scale environments with complex constraints

Excellence in collaborating with others, and in developing software engineers. You have demonstrated outcomes of facilitating team success and leading by example

A product owner: You champion for changes that align with the needs of our users and closely collaborate with Product Managers to build into the roadmap