TLM (Tech Lead Manager) - Recommendation Systems (Homepage)

Engineering Manager, Home Infrastructure:

The Home Infrastructure team builds the mission-critical backend and data systems that power Roblox’s Homepage and Experience Details Page, two of the highest-traffic surfaces on Roblox. These surfaces reach the vast majority of Roblox’s daily active users and are core drivers of discovery, engagement, retention, and platform growth.

We are a full-stack product infrastructure team responsible for content distribution across Roblox. Our systems support exploratory browsing, directed discovery, and personalized content recommendations across the Roblox ecosystem.

This team sits at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems, machine learning-powered personalization, data infrastructure, and product experimentation. We partner closely with Machine Learning, Data Science, Product, Design, Frontend, Ads, Marketplace, Virtual Economy, and other teams across Roblox.

As Engineering Manager for Home Infrastructure, you will lead a team of Backend and Data Engineers responsible for the end-to-end infrastructure powering Roblox’s most important discovery surfaces. You will guide the team’s technical strategy, grow engineering talent, and drive execution on high-impact systems that operate at massive scale.

You Will:

• Lead and grow a high-performing team of Backend and Data Engineers responsible for infrastructure powering Roblox’s Homepage and other Discovery product surfaces.
• Define and execute the technical roadmap for large-scale content discovery, personalization, ranking, data, and backend-serving systems.
• Drive initiatives such as Personalization-as-a-Platform, full-page personalization, real-time user signal infrastructure, and ranking observability.
• Partner with Machine Learning, Data Science, Product, Design, Frontend, Ads, Marketplace, Economy, Search, and Core Infrastructure teams.
• Build an engineering culture focused on technical excellence, reliability, experimentation, operational health, and talent development.

You Have:

• 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager or Tech Lead Manager, ideally leading backend, data, ranking, recommendation, search, ads, or personalization teams.
• Strong technical depth in distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, high-throughput backend platforms, data infrastructure, or ML-powered serving systems.
• Experience leading teams that build and operate large-scale, consumer-facing production systems with high reliability and performance requirements.
• A track record of delivering complex, ambiguous, cross-functional technical initiatives with measurable product or business impact.
• Experience growing engineers, developing technical leaders, and building healthy, high-performing engineering teams.

You Are:

• Technical and strategic: Able to guide architecture, roadmap, and execution across complex backend, data, and personalization systems.
• Impact-oriented: Focused on building systems that improve user experience, creator success, and Roblox’s long-term growth.
• Data-driven: Comfortable using metrics, experimentation, and evidence to guide product and engineering decisions.
• Collaborative: Effective at partnering across Product, ML, Data Science, Design, and engineering teams.
• A talent multiplier: Invested in coaching engineers, raising the engineering bar, and creating an environment where the team can do its best work.

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

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment.

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.