Engineering Manager, Storage Platform (Cache)

Job Description

The Cache Infrastructure team ensures the availability of in-memory data services (including Redis and Memcached), caching content from the foundation storage platform. We run one of the largest distributed services in Roblox: The system serves millions of real-time concurrent users from multiple continents, and can reach hundreds of millions of RPS.

As a Engineering Manager, Storage Platform (Cache), you'll lead the Cache Infrastructure team to establish the roadmap and architecture of the next-gen distributed cache system spanning the global, improve the performance and reliability, and provide services and APIs to both Roblox engineers and Roblox developers.. If you are passionate about solving large distributed system problems and building world-class infrastructure to power the Roblox metaverse, join us!

You Are:

• Experienced Engineering Manager, with at least 5+ years of managerial experience managing technical teams.
• A leader with experience with people management skills and an ability to hire and grow an accomplished team of engineers.
• Able to contribute to architecture and implementation discussions across large distributed systems such as distributed database, in-memory storage. Experience with Redis/Memcached.
• Passionate about working on large-scale storage platforms.
• Effective at driving projects and comfortable getting your hands dirty when needed.
• Data-driven quality metrics and monitoring.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field.

You Will:

• Directly responsible for defining and implementing the cache infrastructure strategy to power Roblox for the next five years
• Work with engineers and other leaders to improve our cache infrastructure, in the areas of availability, performance, security, and developer experience.
• Oversee and achieve complex technical projects from the planning stage through execution.
• Provide guidance on architecture and design processes for launching products and features.
• Provide mentoring to both junior and senior engineers in their progress on business and personal career goals.
• Develop and track key metrics for quality and team performance, improve.
• agreement between product and feature teams on requirements, architecture decisions, and implementation details
• Resolve dependencies, schedules, and prioritization with an eye towards common and shared deliverables
• Report to Yawei Li