Senior Software Engineer, Roku
Observability
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
Open for applications
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
1001+ employees
Open for applications
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
- Are you interested in contributing to the development of Roku’s next-generation observability platform?
- We are seeking individuals with expertise in the CNCF open-source ecosystem of observability tools for metrics, logs, and tracing
- If you enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance their observability experience and managing large-scale operations involving high-volume data and requests across multiple regions and clusters, we encourage you to apply for this role
- 8+ years of experience in Infrastructure engineering, DevOps, and Software Engineering
- Recent experience designing and building unified observability platforms that enable companies to use the sometimes overwhelming amount of available data (metrics, logs, and traces) to determine quickly if their application or service is operating as desired
- Expertise in deploying and using open-source observability tools in large-scale environments, including Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Thanos, or similar tools such as Cortex, Mimir, ELK (Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana) stack, etc
- Expertise in at least one of the observability pillars; (distributed) tracing, logs, metrics, profiling/APM
- Familiarity with the open standard OpenTelemetry
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and Istio as the architecture on which the observability platform runs, and how they integrate and scale. Additionally, the ability to contribute improvements back to the joint platform for the benefit of all teams
- Demonstrated customer engagement and collaboration skills to curate custom dashboards and views, and identify and deploy new tools, to meet their requirements
- The drive and self-motivation to understand the intricate details of a complex infrastructure environment
- Hands-on experience working with AWS and/or GCP
- Experience with Go
- B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- The observability team is an integral part of Roku’s central Infrastructure Engineering team, which oversees the service mesh hosting architecture and observability platform that lives on that platform
- Together, we are tasked with developing and scaling both the Platform (Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, operators, etc.) and the Observability stack (OSS/CNCF-supported observability projects)
- Our goal is to facilitate Roku’s shift towards a unified, cloud-agnostic infrastructure where all teams benefit from a common framework with out-of-the-box features
- Within the observability team, we are dedicated to creating a world-class observability platform
- We customize and optimize OSS projects to meet our needs and actively contribute to upstream projects, promoting positive changes and engaging with the broader ecosystem. We even write software ourselves when there isn’t a good OSS option
- Work closely with the Service Mesh team to identify and standardize existing and new observability tools as part of a holistic solution
- Work on, enhance, and expand our diverse stack of components that operate across multiple clouds, regions, and clusters, managing all observability data. You will have the freedom and tools to drive improvements and make changes
- Perform feature/functionality/usability trials of new observability tools that can benefit Roku
- Contribute new open-source tools and improvements to existing open-source tools back to the CNCF ecosystem
- Design and build automation and custom features in and around the chosen tools to make onboarding new services easy, improve UIX and the general experience for developers
- Demonstrate great communication skills in working with technical and non-technical audiences
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
Some 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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