Engineering Manager - Developer Tooling & AI Ops

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect in 3D immersive digital experiences. Behind this global platform, the Observability team builds the core infrastructure that empowers engineers to operate, debug, and optimize Roblox’s massive distributed system.

As Engineering Manager for the Observability team, you will lead the next generation of AI-powered observability platforms. You will manage a high-performing engineering team building intelligent systems that leverage AI and machine learning to revolutionize CI/CD, testing, distributed tracing, profiling, and telemetry workflows. Sitting at the center of Roblox infrastructure, you will partner closely with Infrastructure, Product Engineering, and AI Platform teams to define the strategic roadmap for autonomous operations and developer productivity at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Development: Hire, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team, fostering an inclusive culture centered on technical execution, innovation, and customer impact.
• AI Observability Vision & Strategy: Define and execute the long-term vision, architectural roadmap, and operational strategy for AI-powered observability and telemetry infrastructure at Roblox.
• Intelligent Developer Infrastructure: Drive initiatives that integrate AI/ML models into CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, profiling, log analysis, and incident remediation workflows.
• Large-Scale Platform Reliability: Oversee end-to-end observability storage, distributed tracing engines, and developer visualization tools to maintain uptime across high-throughput global infrastructure.
• Cross-Functional Executive Partnership: Collaborate with leaders across Core Infra, AI Platform, and Application Engineering to align platform investments with company-wide reliability and velocity goals.

Requirements

Engineering Management & Infrastructure Depth

• 3+ years of direct engineering management experience with a track record of hiring, growing, and retaining senior systems and infrastructure engineers.
• Proven technical experience building, operating, and scaling large-scale distributed systems, cloud platforms, or data infrastructure.
• Strong technical judgment with the ability to balance long-term platform architecture investments with near-term developer velocity needs.
• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional leadership skills across infrastructure and product domains.

Education & Work Logistics

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical industry experience.
• Ability to work onsite at least 3 days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) at Roblox headquarters in San Mateo, CA.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct domain experience with observability platforms (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Datadog) or AI/ML-powered infrastructure (AIOps, anomaly detection, predictive scaling).
• Hands-on background in developer tooling, CI/CD orchestration, automated testing suites, or autonomous DevOps platforms.
• Experience managing multi-cluster infrastructure operating at massive scale (millions of concurrent users or petabytes of daily log ingestion).

Total Rewards & Benefits

• Compensation & Equity: Base salary of $295,250 – $345,040 USD + competitive equity grants.
• Comprehensive Healthcare: Premium medical, dental, and vision insurance options for employees and eligible dependents.
• Workplace Perks: Onsite collaboration at San Mateo HQ with flexible hybrid arrangements on Mondays and Fridays, plus dedicated learning and development budgets.