Engineering Manager, Notifications

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span><strong> </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p></div><p><strong>WHY NOTIFICATIONS?</strong></p> <p>With Roblox’s daily active users growing at a record pace, we are seeking an Engineering Manager who thrives on solving complex challenges and designing scalable, ground breaking solutions. In this role, you will lead that team that owns the backend, relevance and client systems that power Notifications across the Roblox ecosystem. These systems are responsible for the delivery of hundreds of millions of notifications triggered by users, devs and the platform across various surface areas such as push notifications, email, toast, stream, and more.</p> <p><strong>You Will:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Shape and grow a high-performing engineering team. Support engineers, ranging from junior to principal, in their development.</li> <li>Foster a team culture of collaboration, innovation, and engineering excellence; while getting things done. </li> <li>Take responsibility for high-scale systems to deliver Notifications to users on Roblox. Operate creatively to serve the needs of the community and Roblox.</li> <li>Own the team’s mission and outcomes. Work with stakeholders to define the team’s roadmap, and ensure execution. </li> <li>Partner with PM, Design, Data, and stakeholders across Roblox, to develop innovative solutions..</li> </ul> <p><strong>You Have:</strong></p> <ul> <li>2+ years of experience as an engineering manager or tech lead manager.</li> <li>Excellence in collaborating with others, and in developing software engineers. You have demonstrated outcomes of facilitating team success.</li> <li>A proven track record of technical delivery in high-scale environments with complex constraints</li> <li>Ability to contribute to architecture and implementation discussions around high-scale ML systems</li> <li>Experience solving difficult problems involving both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders</li> </ul> <p><strong>You Are:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Resourceful: </strong>You're able to navigate tough constraints to find the best solution. You stay laser-focused on the end goal and are adaptable, creative, and strategic to achieve it. </li> <li><strong>Solution Oriented: </strong>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.</li> <li><strong>Team Oriented:</strong> 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.</li> <li><strong>Empathetic: </strong>You can put yourself in the shoes of anyone – a junior engineer, an executive, an adversarial attacker, a new user – and understand their needs. </li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>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 dependen ... (truncated, view full listing at source)