Senior Engineering Manager, Ads Data Platform

Overview

Lead a team of engineers building the data platform that powers advertising on Roblox, spanning core data infrastructure, identity, measurement, audience targeting, and feature engineering for ML. This is a hands-on leadership role at the center of Roblox's monetization strategy.

What you'll do

• Build and lead a team of high-caliber software engineers, including hiring, performance management, career development, and fostering an inclusive, high-output team culture.
• Set and communicate a multi-quarter technical roadmap across core data, identity, measurement, targeting, and the ML feature platform, and make prioritization and buy-vs-build decisions.
• Partner with product management, data science, ML engineering, privacy/legal, and adjacent Ads and Data Platform teams to translate business goals into a coherent engineering plan.
• Raise the bar on engineering quality across system design, data correctness, reliability (SLAs/SLOs), and operational excellence for systems running continuously at massive scale.
• Champion privacy-by-design and responsible data handling as a first-class requirement in every system your team builds.
• Represent your team's work and trade-offs to senior leadership, and communicate technical risk and progress to both technical and non-technical audiences.

What you'll need

• 8+ years in software engineering with 3+ years managing engineers, including hiring and performance management.
• Experience delivering large-scale distributed data systems, data pipelines, streaming/batch processing, and data stores handling high volume and low latency.
• Strong foundation in at least one of: identity resolution, ad measurement/attribution, audience targeting/segmentation, or feature/data pipelines for ML.
• Demonstrated ability to set technical direction and successfully lead teams through ambiguity.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.
• Working knowledge of data privacy principles and regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, COPPA) and a genuine commitment to building privacy-safe systems.

Details

• Location: San Mateo, CA, United States (headquarters).
• Office presence: onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday.
• Annual base salary range: $345,040 to $399,420 USD, plus equity eligibility and benefits. Actual pay depends on job-related factors and may fall outside this range.
• For US-based roles only: the Company may not be able to employ candidates who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.