# Software Engineering Manager - Engine Networking at Roblox

- Company: Roblox
- What the company does: Roblox is a global platform where millions of people gather together every day to imagine, create, and share experiences with each other in immersive, user-generated 3D worlds. Backed by First Round.
- Company website: https://hbr.org/2022/03/the-ceo-of-roblox-on-scaling-community-sourced-innovation
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Mateo, CA, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-30
- Apply by: 2026-12-14
- Apply: https://careers.roblox.com/jobs/8338380?gh_jid=8338380&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/roblox-software-engineering-manager-engine-networking/

## About the role

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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in engineering leadership
- A track record of leading teams that build high-performance, low-latency systems, such as network infrastructure, real-time state sync, or content delivery, at the scale of millions of concurrent users
- Deep experience with low-level systems programming in resource-constrained, multi-platform environments (desktop, mobile, console)
- Exceptional skills working and communicating cross-functionally with peer teams, internal and external customers, partners, and executives
- Nice to have: a background in game engine development, game networking, asset streaming and caching, or transport-level networking (custom protocols, congestion control, QoS, Linux networking)
- Driven to understand how systems work at every layer, from the network stack to the game engine, and to find the root cause of problems

Tags: Software Engineering

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