Engineering Manager- Application Networking

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 reimagining the way people come together to connect, create, and express themselves. To support our massive scale, we are powered by microservices. The Application Networking team connects and secures these services.

Within this group, the Gateway Team is responsible for the "Front Door" of Roblox. We own the critical infrastructure that manages all traffic entering Roblox (Ingress) and traffic crossing major architectural boundaries.

You will:

• Lead the Gateway team to deliver best-in-class traffic management infrastructure.
• Drive the design and implementation of major "Moonshot" initiatives.
• Lead the consolidation of our ingress stack (migrating NGINX to Envoy) and the "Platformization" of the gateway to enable extensibility for developer teams.
• Own the reliability of Tier-0 systemsMentor engineers and team leads, ensuring sustainable on-call rotations and continuous career growth.

You have:

• 3 years of engineering management experience, specifically managing teams responsible for high-scale distributed systems or networking platforms
• Strong technical background in Layer 7 networking, HTTP/HTTPS, Reverse Proxies (Envoy, NGINX), and API Gateway patterns
• Experience guiding teams through major architectural migrations (e.g., monolith to microservices, legacy proxy to modern mesh/gateway)
• A track record of hiring and nurturing a high-performing engineering team
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and handle complex product requirements.

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

$289,460-$338,270 USD

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

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