Senior Product Manager, Inference Platform
Roblox · San Mateo, United States · 3mo ago
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.
About the Role
Inference Platform is Roblox's multi-tier orchestration system for microservices, powering AI Inference across Roblox. Through a simple developer API, we deliver a "deploy and forget" runtime, hiding the complexity of scheduling, scaling, and reliably running services across our on-prem and multi-cloud footprint at global scale. As Senior Product Manager, Inference Platform, you'll take the helm at a defining moment - leading the charge as we scale the platform to become the default runtime for critical Roblox services worldwide.
You Will
- Own Inference Platform end-to-end - set the multi-year vision for how Roblox engineers deploy, run, and scale AI and other services across our Core and Edge Datacenters, and cloud.
- Power Roblox's AI future - build the platform that brings frontier models and next-gen AI workloads to life, with the primitives, scheduling guarantees, and resource classes AI teams need to move fast.
- Evolve the platform's technical core - define how Roblox prioritizes, isolates, and preempts workloads across shared fleet, and shape the entire system across global control plane, multi-region orchestration, distributed systems primitives, capacity/state management, DR/failover, and operator-based Kubernetes extensions.
- Make developer experience the reason teams choose Jobs Platform - by delivering integrated tooling (CI/CD, telemetry, profiling, tracing) and managing robust SLOs via real-time fleet signals (health, queue depth, scheduling efficiency)—all while engineering a frictionless, effortless onboarding experience for teams.
- Architect intelligent, predictive scaling - advance Multi-Cloud Bursting from reactive to proactive with AI-powered prediction, and partner with Data Science and Finance on demand forecasting, cost-to-serve analytics, and AI-driven resource optimization.
- Own the trade-off calls across efficiency, latency, cost-to-serve and time-to-ship, while maintaining reliability.
- Lead cross-functionally, acting as the connective tissue between Jobs Platform Users, and Jobs Platform, AI, and infrastructure engineers.
You Have
- 7+ years of product management experience building resource orchestration, workload management platforms or large-scale distributed systems
- Track record of building developer-facing platforms that engineers genuinely love to use. You have a deep understanding of modern software development lifecycle and developer tooling with a history of abstracting complex infrastructure into clean, maintainable platform schemas.
- Built and operated Kubernetes and enterprise-grade service mesh at scale, and you understand the developer pain points around control plane mechanics like etcd scaling and API server bottlenecks. You've shipped custom Operators, Controllers, and CRDs, going beyond vanilla Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with GPU/accelerator architecture and the complex scheduling challenges that come with it.
- Background in AI model development, training, inference
- A builder mindset - you are passionate about prototyping, evolving products through rapid iteration, and leveraging AI for ideation and unlocking value for users.
- Experience building workload management or resource orchestration platforms in AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure or other cloud providers. (preferred)
- Kernel-level experience or familiarity with custom kernel drivers. (preferred)
- Experience building agentic systems for workload management or infrastructure. (preferred)
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.
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