Data Engineer, Roku
Ads Auction Platform
More information about location
4+ days a week in office
Convenient & affordable TV streaming players
Open for applications
Convenient & affordable TV streaming players
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
4+ days a week in office
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
- Experience designing and operating production data pipelines at scale
- Strong SQL and Python skills and hands-on Airflow experience
- Experience with both batch and streaming data architectures
- Familiarity with cloud data platforms and distributed processing systems
- Experience modeling event-driven data for analytics and experimentation
- Knowledge of ad tech data concepts such as auctions, bids, pacing, and yield
- Strong fundamentals in data quality, lineage, monitoring, and governance
- Ability to partner effectively with cross-functional technical and business teams
What the job involves
- In this role, you will build and maintain data pipelines and analytics infrastructure that power Roku’s CTV advertising auction platform
- You will support marketplace optimization by delivering high-quality datasets for advertiser performance, publisher yield, and revenue analysis across batch and near real-time workflows
- You will partner with product, analytics, and data science teams to translate business needs into well-modeled, reliable data products
- You will contribute to experimentation, simulation, and reporting foundations that inform bidding strategy and monetization decisions
- This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys high-scale data systems, strong data quality practices, and measurable business impact
- Design and maintain data pipelines and analytics infrastructure supporting Roku’s CTV advertising auction platform
- Build ETL/ELT workflows in Airflow to process auction events including delivery, bids, impressions, pricing, budget usage, and frequency cap signals
- Create scalable batch and streaming pipelines for billions of daily ad events with strong freshness, accuracy, and schema consistency
- Model datasets for multi-objective optimization and marketplace analytics across advertiser, publisher, and platform outcomes
- Design aggregated tables and materialized views to support closed-loop analysis of auction results and bidding behavior
- Own integrations from DSPs, programmatic exchanges, and direct campaigns and standardize schemas for unified reporting
- Partner with data scientists, analysts, and product teams to deliver clean, discoverable, and trusted datasets
- Enable yield and gross profit analysis through dimensional models, win-rate metrics, demand health indicators, and experiment measurement tables
- Build data foundations for A/B testing analysis, auction simulation, offline replay, and post-campaign reporting
- Implement data quality checks, monitoring, and observability while supporting privacy and governance requirements
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. Then, after successful collaborations with TCL and Hisense, the first in-house "Roku Television" was released. In 2026, it was announced that media giant FOX would acquire Roku, which the companies say will create the third largest player in US TV by share of viewing.
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Insights
-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
Company HQ
Newhall, San Jose, CA
Leadership
Anthony Wood
(Founder & 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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