ROBLOX Corporation

Principal Technical Program Manager

ROBLOX Corporation$277K — $330K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Technical leader with expertise in cloud and on-prem infrastructure
  • 7+ years in the software industry managing large-scale systems
  • Strong relationship-building with cross-disciplinary teams
  • Proven ability to identify and solve critical technical issues
  • Experience in delivering comprehensive technical programs through roadmapping
  • Adept at aligning solutions to benefit larger communities
  • Knowledgeable about user scoping, execution, and project delivery

Responsibilities

  • Build advanced infrastructure solutions for diverse user needs
  • Define problem space and drive teams to deliver large-scale systems
  • Communicate technology goals, requirements, and milestones clearly
  • Balance project efficiency with community impact and long-term objectives
  • Align key stakeholders with the program roadmap
  • Manage programs end-to-end focusing on long-term success
  • Unblock teams and maintain focus on top priorities
  • Enable teams to effectively manage all phases of projects
  • Utilize data-driven strategies to inform team directions
  • Manage interdependencies across teams and components
  • Influence and drive product roadmap to support innovation and strategic initiatives

Benefits

  • Eligible for equity compensation
  • Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
  • Flexible work schedule with partial remote options
Full Job Description
As a Technical Program Manager for Infrastructure, you will lead technical programs to develop and rollout next generation technology solutions to process a diverse spectrum of infrastructure workloads across Roblox services to enable users around the world to efficiently, reliably, and securely enjoy the Roblox Platform.

You Have:
  • Been a technical leader with domain expertise in systems and software used to process and manage Cloud and on-prem Infrastructure
  • 7+ years of experience in software industry driving the build of large-scale systems
  • Experienced with establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams
  • Experienced with identifying critical technical problems and opportunities
  • Experienced with delivering end to end technical programs through roadmapping and reliable execution
  • Able to turn specific solutions into systems that benefit the larger community in the long run
  • Knowledgeable about user needs, scoping, planning, execution and delivery
  • Flexible around process, using process as a tool when it makes sense for a team
  • Domain expertise in system or software engineering
  • Capability of establishing working relationships across diverse teams
  • Technical depth in infrastructure systems and experience in AI/ML infrastructure
  • Effective communications

You will:
  • Build advanced infrastructure solutions for Roblox developer and user needs
  • Define problem space, collect user requirements and drive engineering teams to plan and ship large-scale systems
  • Clearly communicate technology, requirements, goals, and milestones.
  • Balance efficiency, and priorities based on impact to the community and our long-term goals
  • Align senior leadership and key stakeholders around program roadmap
  • Manage programs from beginning to end, focusing on what is best for long-term success
  • Unblock teams and allow them to stay true to top priorities
  • Enable engineering teams to reliably manage all project phases
  • Use data-driven approach to inform teams' direction
  • Manage dependencies across teams and components
  • Influence, drive and deliver the product roadmap in support of innovation, cost-to-serve, scale, performance, quality and reliability and other strategic business initiatives


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

$277,350-$330,330 USD

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

About ROBLOX Corporation

Roblox Corporation is a video game company that operates a massively multiplayer online game platform. The platform allows users to create and play games in a virtual world, with a focus on user-generated content. Roblox was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California. The company has grown rapidly in recent years, and now has over 100 million monthly active users. In 2021, Roblox went public through a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
Learn more about ROBLOX Corporation
Size
960 employees
Market Cap
$15.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$242.8 million
Founded
2004
Revenue
$727 million
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