Senior Software Engineer, Roku
Application Security
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
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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
- This position requires expertise in designing and implementing secure cloud infrastructure and platforms
- Security consulting experience, including extensive hands on implementation
- Experience securely running and operating web applications, web services, and service-oriented architecture in production environments
- 5+ years deploying software and applications using managed Native AWS Services and Kubernetes in a production environment
- Experience managing Linux environments
- Ability and desire to lead the design and implementation of backend services, coupled with a deep understanding of different application platforms
- A breadth of security knowledge and best practices, including network isolation, least privilege, zero trust, and secrets management
- Experience with various protocols and data formats such as REST, WebSockets, HTTPS, JSON, and Protobuf
- Rust/C++ as bonus coding experience
- Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
What the job involves
- As a Senior Security Engineer, Cloud, on the Advanced Development team, your role involves architecting, designing, and implementing end-to-end security controls to impact the global user base
- A key focus is on developing automated, scalable security solutions to enhance efficiency and protect Roku
- The Advanced Development organisation pushes beyond the boundaries of product lines to build new things
- We think independently of standard shipping cadences and timelines, working on foundational technologies that will impact every Roku device in the future, and on ideas that no one has seen before in their living room
- As this is an exceptional team, we are seeking unusual talent
- As part of Advanced Development, the Developer Experience team specifically focuses on driving internal changes in tooling to improve developer satisfaction and productivity
- The team listens to their customers, determines the most impactful opportunities and executes on delivering those changes
- The team works in technologies including modern Linux embedded C++, CI systems, complex AWS cloud backend systems, and web platforms
- Using your prior knowledge of Terraform, Kubernetes, Linux, and Native AWS components to securely design and deploy virtual devices for partner collaboration, utilizing best practices to minimize costs, ensure protection of intellectual property, and maximize reliability
- Perform upgrades and deployments of software via infrastructure as code using Terraform to ensure auditability and consistency from release to release
- Developing supporting automation in Go and Python
- Lead efforts to evaluate new technologies and methodologies, pushing for best practices including secure code and design reviews and implementing automation to ensure high-quality code
- Self-managing project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Partnering with infrastructure, platform, and application teams to embed security into application architectures and deployment workflows as part of a robust Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC)
- Conducting security reviews and performing threat modeling for infrastructure, platform, and application initiatives
- Leverage AI to accelerate your learning and enhance your work products
- Driving security initiatives end-to-end — from identifying risks to delivering solutions — with high autonomy in a fast-moving environment
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
-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
(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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