Senior Software Engineer, Roku
Tableau
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4+ days a week in office
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
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Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
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
- If you’re endlessly curious, comfortable working across infrastructure and user experience, can balance long-term architecture with day-to-day delivery, and enjoy making complex data feel simple, this role is for you
- Typically, 8 years or more of experience in BI, data engineering, or data visualization roles, including significant hands-on ownership of Tableau environments
- Certification as a Tableau Consultant or Architect
- Deep expertise with Tableau Cloud, including configuration, performance tuning, and content governance at scale
- Strong experience working with large datasets and big data technologies, ideally in a GCP environment
- Familiarity with common database and query technologies such as Trino connector, MySQL and cloud-based data warehouses/data lakes
- Proven track record in performance tuning for Tableau dashboards, workbooks, and underlying queries
- Strong knowledge of Tableau extracts, scheduling, and optimization strategies
- Hands-on experience with Tableau Bridge for hybrid connectivity scenarios
- Experience using the Tableau REST API or similar APIs for automation, monitoring, and administrative tasks
- Demonstrated experience with Tableau content publishing and lifecycle management. User, group, and permission management, access reviews and audit support
- Strong skills in dashboard and report design, with an understanding of UX, accessibility, and visual best practices
- Good understanding of data modelling for analytics, and familiarity with data warehouse and data lake architectures
- Advanced SQL skills for data preparation, transformation, and validation
- Clear communication skills and the ability to work closely with engineering, analytics, and business stakeholders
What the job involves
- Our team’s mission is to make data at Roku usable, trusted, and actionable for everyone. We build and operate the BI platforms that power data-driven decisions across the company, from self-service dashboards to governed, high-scale reporting on top of our cloud data platforms
- We provide an end-to-end solution: resilient data connectivity, performant and secure Tableau Cloud environments, and thoughtfully designed visual experiences that help Roku quickly understand what’s happening and what to do nexT
- We are a globally distributed team with presence in the US and Europe. We value technical depth, pragmatism, a strong sense of ownership, and a collaborative mindset
- In this role, you will own and evolve our Tableau Cloud environment and related BI capabilities
- You’ll design and optimize how Tableau connects to our data platforms on AWS and GCP, lead migrations, and drive best practices for performance, governance, and usability
- You will partner closely with data engineering, analytics, and product teams to ensure our BI stack scales with Roku’s growth and supports confident, data-driven decision-making
- Own the Tableau Cloud platform across configuration, architecture, and connectivity to backend systems on AWS and GCP
- Design and implement high-performing dashboards and reports, using best practices for usability, scalability, and maintainability
- Optimize Tableau data extracts, live connections, and refresh strategies to support large and complex datasets
- Configure and operate Tableau Bridge for secure hybrid connectivity to on-prem and VPC-hosted data sources
- Troubleshoot and resolve data source, connectivity, and version compatibility issues across environments
- Use the Tableau REST API and related tooling to automate administrative workflows, deployments, and monitoring
- Lead Tableau environment migrations, including on-premises to Tableau Cloud and Cloud site to cloud site migrations and consolidations
- Perform key Tableau administrative activities, including publishing and curating data sources, workbooks, and dashboards. Managing permissions, groups, projects, and folder structures and conducting user analysis, license reviews, and access audits
- Partner with data engineering teams to align data models, warehouses, and data lakes with reporting and visualization requirements
- Write and review SQL for data preparation, transformation, and performance optimization
- Help define and promote BI and data visualization standards, including documentation, governance, and design guidelines
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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
- Free snacks and access to the company fitness center
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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