Engineering Manager, Observability Infrastructure
At a glance
Manager-level Engineering Leadership role at roblox. San Mateo · full-time · $295,250–$345,040 base.
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What you'll do
- Set the direction and roadmap for observability infrastructure with partners across the company
- Lead and develop engineers building AI-based observability platforms and developer infrastructure
- Advance tooling for CI/CD, testing and DevOps, using AI to improve engineering workflows
- Drive work that boosts developer productivity, service reliability and operational effectiveness at scale
- Build an engineering team culture focused on ownership, delivery, collaboration and customer impact
What you bring
- At least three years managing engineers, including hiring, coaching and growing strong teams
- Experience building and operating distributed systems and data infrastructure at large scale
Who this fits
This manager role suits someone with strong technical judgment who can balance platform investment with near-term priorities and work across engineering, product and infrastructure teams. The San Mateo office schedule requires onsite attendance Tuesday through Thursday, with Monday and Friday optional. For U.S.-based applicants, some visa categories may affect eligibility, and future H-1B sponsorship may not be available.
From the employer
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 Observability team builds the infrastructure that empowers engineers to understand, operate, and improve the Roblox platform and ecosystem. Our team owns the end-to-end observability stack across telemetry, distributed tracing, logging, profiling, storage systems, and developer-facing visualization tools.
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the next generation of AI-powered observability platforms. In this role, you will help build intelligent systems that leverage AI to revolutionize CI/CD, testing, and DevOps workflows — enabling engineers to move faster, improve reliability, and operate large-scale distributed systems with greater efficiency and confidence.
This is a highly impactful leadership role at the center of Roblox infrastructure. Your work will directly improve developer productivity, platform reliability, and operational excellence across the company. You will partner closely with infrastructure, product engineering, and AI platform teams to shape the future of developer tooling and autonomous operations at scale.
You Have
- 3+ years of engineering management experience with a proven track record of hiring, mentoring, and growing high-performing teams.
- Strong experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems and data infrastructure.
- Experience with observability platforms or AI/ML-powered infrastructure is a plus.
- Strong technical judgment and execution skills, with the ability to balance long-term platform investments with near-term business priorities.
- Passion for developer experience, platform engineering, and applying AI to improve engineering productivity and operational excellence.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills across engineering, product, and infrastructure teams.
You Will
- Partner with stakeholders across the company to define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the next generation of observability infrastructure at Roblox.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers building AI-powered observability platforms and intelligent developer infrastructure.
- Foster a strong engineering culture centered on ownership, execution, innovation, collaboration, and customer impact.
- Drive initiatives that improve developer productivity, operational excellence, and platform reliability at scale.
- Help shape the future of AI-driven developer tooling, CI/CD, testing, and DevOps experiences across Roblox.
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 as described on this page.
Annual Salary Range$295,250—$345,040 USDRoles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
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 to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.
For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.