Senior/Principal Product Manager (Engine Networking)

Location: San Mateo, California, United States; hybrid with onsite work Tuesday–Thursday. Monday and Friday presence is optional unless otherwise noted.

Base pay: $280,540–$330,950 USD annually. Additional equity compensation and employee benefits are available.

Company

Roblox develops a platform and tools for creating and experiencing 3D immersive digital experiences.

What you will do

• Define the long-term vision and strategy for the Engine Networking stack and high-performance real-time connected game engine.
• Drive execution of architectural systems, including the upcoming offline play feature.
• Partner with Infrastructure and Matchmaking to optimize networked gameplay KPIs such as latency and support future data center initiatives.
• Work with Data Science to define metrics, identify opportunities, and measure product effectiveness.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to build and successfully deploy roadmap features, applying advances in AI and architecture.
• Mentor product professionals and strengthen a culture of rigorous experimentation and customer empathy.

Requirements

• 6+ years of product management experience, including significant experience with technically deep products.
• Strong technical background, such as a computer science degree or equivalent experience, with the ability to discuss networking stacks with engineering partners.
• Experience defining multi-year product visions and leading large cross-functional teams across Engineering and Data Science.
• Ability to make high-stakes decisions under ambiguity and drive products from concept to global launch.
• Strong analytical, written, verbal, and executive communication skills, including explaining technical topics to non-technical audiences.
• For this US-based role, certain US visa-based work authorizations may not be supported, and future H-1B sponsorship may not be available.

Nice to have

• Experience with competitive game engines, low-latency networking systems, or user-generated content platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on networking systems serving more than 130 million daily players.
• Collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, matchmaking, and data science disciplines.
• Full-time employment includes equity compensation and employee benefits.
• Roblox provides equal employment opportunities and reasonable recruiting accommodations for qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs.