Engineering Manager - Application Platform

Key Skills

JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, ASP.net, ExpressJS, Flask

Job Description

WHY ROBLOX?

We are on a mission to bring the world together through play. Come work with the most passionate, team-oriented, visionary, and crazy-smart people you’ll ever meet in your life. At Roblox, the Community is the heart and soul of Roblox - we have over 100 million active players engage on our platform every month playing over 57 million games built by over 2 million developers worldwide. How cool is that?

Roblox is not just a game company and not just a social network. We are building a universe that encompasses the future of connecting with each other through the democratization of the gaming world by inspiring people to play, socialize, create, and engage - across all devices.

What that means is that the impact that you can have at Roblox is powerful and long-lasting.

Come join the Roblox team where play rules and the possibilities are endless - literally.

Application Platform

The Application Platform Team manages the core infrastructure and API stack that powers https://www.roblox.com. In addition, the team owns shared libraries, infrastructure microservices, and the JavaScript frameworks used by all other Roblox full-stack feature teams. We ship on a daily cadence with testable and configurable features that allow for rapid experimentation, data collection, and optimize for performance and user engagement.

Here are a few quick highlights of how we power Roblox:

• CDN - we push hundreds of petabytes of data through our CDNs each month
• Microservices - we own 50+ microservices, the most of any Roblox fullstack engineering team
• API Scale - we run services that hit 500K - 700K RPS, the highest load of any Roblox fullstack engineering team.
• Thumbnails - our system generates 20,000 - 50,000 thumbnails at peak. Perfect for viewing all your avatar clothing options!

Here are a few things you will work on:

• Manage the team that design and implement features in our backend server and API stack that power https://www.roblox.com and mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Amazon platforms.
• Build new microservices in a modern development process using Docker, .net Core Linux, and container orchestration.
• Enhance and extend our Telemetry system for the charting and visualization of Roblox events and metrics.
• Write code in a diverse ecosystem that can be a mix of HTML, mobile web, JavaScript, Amazon Web Services, and C#.
• Bring your full experiences of rapid daily releases so that we can delight our customers every week with improvements and new features!
• Technical leadership: be a gatekeeper for a high code quality bar, architectural designs, and pragmatic vs. long-term approaches
• Build consensus and alignment between product and feature teams on requirements, architecture decisions, and implementation details
• Resolve dependencies, schedules, and prioritization with an eye towards common and shared deliverables
• Track data, where possible, on changes/improvements so they can be measured, and so that we can continually improve.
• Work effectively within a team environment and be an inspiration to the people around you.

You Are:

• Someone that likes to figure things out, and a hands-on manager who loves to code.
• Someone that has architected, designed, and developed a wide-array of software products.
• An experienced, full-stack, technical engineer who has shipped multiple versions of products at different companies.
• An Engineering Manager with 5+ years of management experience.
• You’ve managed teams of 10+ individual contributors reporting to you
• An expert in building web applications in frameworks such as ASP.NET, SpringMVC, Express, Rails, or Flask.
• Well-versed in front-end development with modern JavaScript architectures such as React, AngularJS, Vue, or other frameworks.
• Knowledgeable with REST, API design patterns, and scalable containerized systems and microservices.

You'll Love:

• Working on unique projects that are seen - and enjoyed - by millions of active Roblox users every day
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• A rewarding 401k program
• Flexible vacation policy
• Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks (Nom nom nom.)
• Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
• Annual CalTrain Go Pass
• A super-cool Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
• Rockstar status with our community (No autographs, please.)