Senior Software Engineer, Roku
Distributed Backend
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
Be an early applicant
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide its users with a more convenient and cost effective way of watching the programs they love.
Role
Who you are
- If you bring extensive experience building complex systems, love great technology at scale, enjoy mentoring, jumping in, and figuring things out in any system, this role is for you!
- The ideal candidate will have endless curiosity and can pair a global mindset with locally relevant execution
- The successful candidate will display a balance of hard and soft skills, including the ability to respond quickly to changing business needs
- 10+ years of experience building large-scale and low-latency distributed systems
- Command of Java or C++
- Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, performance optimization techniques, object-oriented programming, multi-threading, and real-time programming
- Experience with distributed caching, SQL/NO SQL, and other databases is a plus
- Experience with Big Data and cloud services such as AWS/GCP is a plus
- Experience in the advertising domain is a big plus
- B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
- Self-motivated individual with a high level of accountability and ownership
- Critical thinking and practical decision-making
- Can do, results-oriented mindset
- Nonpolitical, collaborative, and team-oriented
- Desire to win in a highly competitive industry
What the job involves
- A highly scalable, highly available, real-time advertising platform is critical to support and grow Roku's ad business
- It is the mission of the Ad Engineering Team to build this platform
- We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Advertising Platform, to be a vital part of this mission
- Roku pioneered TV streaming and continues to innovate and lead the industry
- The Roku Channel has us well-positioned to help shape the future of streaming
- Continued success relies on investing in Advertising Engineering
- Building a real-time, highly scalable-available advertising platform is critical for our success
- Our team’s mission is to build a best-in-class advertising platform to support and grow Roku’s exploding ad business
- Our platforms are highly performant, deployed at scale, and set new standards for enabling effective advertising while protecting user privacy
- Work alongside a highly skilled engineering team to design, develop, and maintain large-scale, highly performing, real-time applications
- Own building features, driving directly with product and other engineering teams
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills in working with technical and non-technical audiences
- Be an evangelist for best practices across all functions – developers, QA, and infrastructure/ops
- Be an evangelist for platform innovation and reuse
- Deliver top-quality software in a timely fashion
Our take
According to Nielsen data, the average streamer spends over seven minutes searching for something to watch. Streaming services use customers' viewing history to make suggestions, but these are limited to programs licensed for that particular service.
Roku provides an integrated streaming service that offers TV channels, movies and third-party streaming services, resulting in an all-in-one streaming platform. The service can be accessed through a variety of customized subscription packages and fees.
Roku stands out in the streaming industry by bringing many competitors together in one package. The startup provides further innovative services such as a weekly TV series named 'Roku Recommends' which uses first-party data to recommend essential viewing to users. Alongside funding filmmakers through its "Change Makers Program", Roku also acquired its own original library of shows through its acquisition of now-defunct Quibi's library in 2021. After successful collaborations with TCL and Hisense, the first in-house "Roku Television" was released in 2023, further exemplifying the streaming company's wider ambitions in the media sector.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2016
$45.5m
LATE VC
Nov 2015
$45.5m
SERIES H
Total funding: $247.8m
Company benefits
- Medical, wellness and financial benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Free snacks and access to the company fitness center
Company HQ
Newhall, San Jose, CA
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Leadership
Anthony Wood
(CEO)Studied Engineering at Texas A&M before founding their first company in 1986. They held VP roles at both Adobe and Netflix.
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