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Engineering Manager, Observability Infrastructure

Roblox is hiring an Engineering Manager, Observability Infrastructure in San Mateo, United States. It pays $295k-$345k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Roblox.

Level's read on this job

  • On Level's scale, this role is Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
  • Roblox mentions visa sponsorship in this posting.
  • Tools and skills the posting cites include CI/CD, distributed systems and observability.
  • Level classifies it as a lead role.
  • Level lists 268 other open roles at Roblox.

AI in this role

Lead an engineering team building AI-powered observability platforms to revolutionize CI/CD, testing, and DevOps workflows.

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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.

The Observability team builds the infrastructure that empowers engineers to understand, operate, and improve the Roblox platform and ecosystem. Our team owns the end-to-end observability stack across telemetry, distributed tracing, logging, profiling, storage systems, and developer-facing visualization tools.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the next generation of AI-powered observability platforms. In this role, you will help build intelligent systems that leverage AI to revolutionize CI/CD, testing, and DevOps workflows — enabling engineers to move faster, improve reliability, and operate large-scale distributed systems with greater efficiency and confidence.

This is a highly impactful leadership role at the center of Roblox infrastructure. Your work will directly improve developer productivity, platform reliability, and operational excellence across the company. You will partner closely with infrastructure, product engineering, and AI platform teams to shape the future of developer tooling and autonomous operations at scale.

You Have

  • 3+ years of engineering management experience with a proven track record of hiring, mentoring, and growing high-performing teams.
  • Strong experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems and data infrastructure.
  • Experience with observability platforms or AI/ML-powered infrastructure is a plus.
  • Strong technical judgment and execution skills, with the ability to balance long-term platform investments with near-term business priorities.
  • Passion for developer experience, platform engineering, and applying AI to improve engineering productivity and operational excellence.
  • Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills across engineering, product, and infrastructure teams.

You Will

  • Partner with stakeholders across the company to define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the next generation of observability infrastructure at Roblox.
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers building AI-powered observability platforms and intelligent developer infrastructure.
  • Foster a strong engineering culture centered on ownership, execution, innovation, collaboration, and customer impact.
  • Drive initiatives that improve developer productivity, operational excellence, and platform reliability at scale.
  • Help shape the future of AI-driven developer tooling, CI/CD, testing, and DevOps experiences across Roblox.

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$295,250—$345,040 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.

How we rate this

Engineering Manager, Observability Infrastructure at Roblox rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Distributed SystemsObservabilityInfrastructureEngineering ManagementCI/CD

Questions you could be asked

  1. Tell me about a project where distributed systems was part of your work. What did you do?
  2. Tell me about a project where observability was part of your work. What did you do?
  3. Tell me about a project where infrastructure was part of your work. What did you do?
  4. Tell me about a project where engineering management was part of your work. What did you do?
  5. Walk me through how you've used CI/CD in your day-to-day work.

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  • List these exact terms on your resume: Distributed Systems, Observability, Infrastructure, Engineering Management, and CI/CD. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
  • Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
  • Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.

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