Senior Data Engineer, Roku
$301.8-318.8k
Offers equity
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
Be an early applicant
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$301.8-318.8k
Offers equity
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
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or related field
- 5 years of progressive experience as a Data Engineer, Software Engineer, or related occupation
- Will also accept Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or related field and 3 years of experience as a Data Engineer, Software Engineer, or related occupation
- Must have at least 1 year of prior work experience in each of the following:
- SQL coding
- Object-oriented software development using Python, Java, and Scala
- Working with large-scale, high-throughput, and multi-tenant distributed systems using the following Big Data technologies: Spark, HDFS, YARN, Hive, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, ElasticSearch, Looker, and Presto
- Designing and building real-time data pipelines and online validation frameworks capable of handling millions of events per minute
- Solving large-scale data quality problems
- Data contracts, data validation frameworks & tools, data governance tool Datahub or Alation
- Data access controls, data privacy implementation, and data security standards
- Cloud Technologies AWS, GCP, and Snowflake
- Kubernetes-based deployments, Spark on Kubernetes, and Airflow on Kubernetes
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams of developers, analysts, and operations to execute deliverables
What the job involves
- Develop, create, and modify computer applications software
- Scratch-build a highly scalable, available, fault-tolerant data processing systems using AWS, GCP cloud technologies, HDFS, YARN, Map-Reduce, Hive, Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Flink, Trino, Snowflake, and other big data technologies. These systems should handle batch and real-time data processing over 10s of terabytes of data ingested every day and petabyte-sized data warehouse
- Build quality data solutions and refine existing diverse datasets into simplified models encouraging self-service
- Build data pipelines that perfect data quality and are resilient to inadequate data sources
- Partner with upstream teams to build test automation for data logging
- Define scalable schema design and custom validators for both offline and online data validations
- Design and develop data governance and data validation tools, frameworks, and infrastructure
- Build a high throughput online validation framework to minimize "bad" data flowing downstream that can handle millions of events per minute
- Support downstream teams with data quality discovery and resolution
- Build data discovery frameworks that help with an accurate lineage of data elements and metrics. Low level systems debugging, performance measurement & optimization on large production clusters
- Participate in architecture discussions, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects
- Maintain and support existing platforms and evolve to newer technology stacks and architectures
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
(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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