Engineering Manager, Social Play — Lead -Scale Engagement

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience as an engineering manager or tech lead manager
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• 8+ years of experience building full-stack systems, including backend, APIs, frontend applications, and user-facing features
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• Excellence in collaborating with others, and in developing software engineers. You have demonstrated outcomes of facilitating team success and leading by example
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• A proven track record of technical delivery in high-scale environments with complex constraints
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• Experience solving difficult problems involving both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders
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• Proactive:
  You operate with a sense of urgency, initiating conversations and workflow that pushes product strategy and the team forward
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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 key moment on Roblox is when users play games with their friends — it's what keeps players coming back for more. As the Engineering Manager for Social Play, you will lead a team focused on deepening those connections through features that make every session better with friends.
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• You'll drive co-play, help players discover new games, through their social graph, and shape how players find and join each other in real time. Your team owns high-scale features used by hundreds of millions of users, while also building new zero-to-one experiences. Your work will directly influence company-level goals around engagement and retention
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• You'll partner across product and engineering to shape both the technical platform and the player-facing surface — building a richer, more social Roblox
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• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team. Support engineers, ranging from junior to senior, in their development
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• Foster a team culture of collaboration, innovation, and engineering excellence; while getting things done
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• Define and execute the product and technical strategy for enabling identity and expression on the platform
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• Own the team’s mission and outcomes. Work with stakeholders to define the team’s roadmap, and ensure execution
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• Partner with PM, Design, Data, and stakeholders across Roblox, to develop innovative solutions