Roblox
Software Engineering Manager - Network Transport
$294K–$343K
San Mateo, CA, United States · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of total software engineering experience, including experience managing or leading high-performing systems, networking, or content-delivery engineering teams.
- Visa sponsorship
- For US-based roles, the company may be unable to employ candidates whose work authorization is related to certain U.S. visa categories or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
About the job
Leads the Engine Networking team in building and delivering real-time state synchronization and asset-streaming systems for Roblox experiences.
What you'll do
- Lead team architecture and execution across real-time state synchronization and end-to-end asset delivery.
- Drive technical strategy and roadmaps for networking and content delivery systems.
- Support engineers’ career growth and coordinate execution across platform, engine, content, and infrastructure teams.
What they ask for
- Experience managing, leading, or mentoring engineering teams working on high-performance, low-latency network infrastructure or content-delivery/asset-streaming systems in client/server environments.
- Experience driving execution and architectural roadmaps for complex multithreaded systems connecting millions of concurrent users worldwide.
- Experience delivering systems for desktop, mobile, and console deployments, accounting for platform bandwidth, storage, and memory constraints.
- Highly proficient in C++; knowledgeable in transport-level optimizations, Linux networking, QoS, and Congestion Control Algorithms.
Nice to have
- Background in game engine development, game networking, asset pipelines, or content streaming, with familiarity in game loop architecture, state synchronization, and asset loading.
- Experience with asset delivery systems, including CDNs, caching, download scheduling, prefetching, compression/decompression, and streaming under memory constraints.
Pay
$293,800–$343,340 USD annual base salary (San Mateo headquarters roles)
Tools
C++, Linux
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