Senior Director of Product Management, Infrastructure as a Service - 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.
Roblox is building a cloud for the metaverse and in this role, you’d be responsible for the strategy, vision, and execution of the infrastructure layer of this platform. The teams that build this platform are responsible for the availability, cost, and productivity of Roblox’s business. Operating across dozens of data centers globally, serving nearly 90 million daily active users every day.
This role will partner with our Compute, Datacenter, and Network engineering teams to build our vision of a “multi Kubernetes cluster data center architecture”, everything including physical server, the rack and cluster design, the network (cluster, datacenter, and WAN), the Kubernetes based infrastructure APIs presented to users, the public cloud extension of these capabilities, and the systems we use to operate that system every day.
In this role you’ll play a key role in the strategic direction of our business. You’ll be directly responsible for the bottom line of Roblox, determining how profitably we operate. You’ll be responsible for key technology evolutions, such as our embrace of GPUs, Kubernetes, Service Mesh and Edge Computing. You’ll enable Roblox to provide new capabilities like Generative AI at scale to our users and creators.
This role requires deep technical acumen across the entire cloud stack, combined with acute business insight. You’ll need to walk out of a meeting with our CFO to set financial guidance to our investors, and into a meeting with our engineering team to discuss how to double the efficiency of our data processing pipelines. You’ll be asked to help coordinate the roadmaps of multiple large engineering teams against multi year roadmaps. You’ll be responsible for the direction of massive investments of both time and money into the future of Roblox.
You will
- Be responsible for the strategy and vision across multiple large engineering teams
- Partner with Engineering, Data science, and Design to build exceptional infrastructure products
- Partner with Engineering and Finance to ensure Roblox achieves best in class economics and a profitable P&L
- Define the goals, work, and metrics that the team uses to execute against large engineering initiatives
- Be the champion and evangelist for our unique approach to infrastructure both within and outside of the company
You have
- 15+ years of experience leading infrastructure, developer, and operations tools / products
- Experience working at a senior level amongst cross functional executive teams leading cross organization initiatives
- Expertise in Infrastructure platform technology and a deep familiarity with industry state of the art
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.