Job brief: Principal Product Manager, Content Platform

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Roblox's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-10 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-10.
• The apply link opens careers.roblox.com, the address Roblox's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $330,950 to $383,120 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: San Mateo, CA, United States · San Mateo, CA
• Posted: 2026-11-09

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Manager. The title says "Manager".

Must have

• Evolve our permissions and licensing model so creators and IP holders can share, license, and protect their content with confidence, across users, groups, experiences, and AI agen…
• Formal degree in a technical field such as: Computer Science, Software Engineering, or similar experience.

Main duties

• Own the vision and roadmap for the Content Platform, spanning ingest, storage, processing and transcoding, permissions, and delivery of every asset on Roblox.
• Scale a mission-critical service that stores and serves all content on Roblox reliably and performantly, across billions of daily requests and a globally dis…
• Make the platform ready for AI creation: scale the content backbone for orders of magnitude more content created by agents as well as people, and build the s…
• Support core developer workflows for creators, including drafts, versioning, branching and rollback, packages and dependencies, import and export from extern…
• Evolve our permissions and licensing model so creators and IP holders can share, license, and protect their content with confidence, across users, groups, ex…

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for manager jobs in San Mateo, CA: $277k a year (58 listings, 2 employers). This listing is 29% higher.
• Across Roblox's 253 open listings, 45% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Roblox hires

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