Senior Product Manager, App Performance & Architecture
Roblox
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San Mateo, CA · Posted April 23, 2026
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About the job
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.
About the role:
Roblox is a rich ecosystem encompassing varied product categories across nearly all platforms (mobile, desktop, console, VR, etc.). Keeping our app performant, scalable, and reliable requires a robust technical architecture to empower thousands of engineers to build at scale. As the Senior Product Manager for this space, you’ll drive the creation of foundational systems like our multi-process architecture, resource management systems, and key observability frameworks that power the heart of the Roblox App.
You will:
• Understand, influence, and expand the company’s thinking on central themes like Performance, Reliability, and Maintainability, working together with partner teams on App Performance and Infra Reliability to accomplish shared goals.
• Define the capabilities and inner workings of critical systems like our process lifecycle manager, asset download orchestrator and critical observability frameworks like our sessionization system.
• Drive a multi-year roadmap to modernize our App Architecture across key themes like modularization, network resiliency, and resource efficiency. Dive deep into problem spaces with Engineering to ideate new systems to scale our App.
• Drive the roadmap for Observability & Logging Systems. Dive deep into monitoring & triage workflows, identifying gaps to create new features and systems that extend our capabilities
• Empower our customers. Every feature team across Roblox builds on top of the foundation we build. Work closely with them to evangelize, integrate, and migrate teams to the latest standards.
• Write product and technical specifications to communicate requirements & behaviors of the systems we build and unblock the team to relentlessly execute.
• Work closely with many passionate internal stakeholders, engineers, designers, data scientists, and product team members.
• Present and debate nuanced and difficult decisions with our highly engaged and visionary leadership.
• Dive into the technical nitty-gritty, helping make the right decisions on a complex app that is shipping across every major consumer platform.
• Grow your career with a company that is growing rapidly.
You have:
• 5-7+ years of experience including as a PM building platforms or highly technical products.
• Experience owning and driving roadmaps for teams that span multiple feature areas
• Experience as an engineer or engineering manager building platform products, managing migrations and designing complex systems.
• A degree or equivalent experience in a highly technical field like computer science, software engineering
• Experience building complex systems 0 to 1 or driving client performance optimizations is a plus
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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
$280,540—$330,950 USD
Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.
For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.