Software Engineer, Roku
Golang/Python
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4-5 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
4-5 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
- 3-5 years of professional experience building and supporting backend services in production, with attention to reliability, performance, and operational readiness
- Experience designing or contributing to distributed systems (e.g., service-oriented architectures, event-driven systems, or microservices)
- Proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language such as Java, Go or Python
- Ability to communicate clearly with partner teams to define requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver iteratively
- Experience deploying services on Kubernetes and using infrastructure tooling such as Helm and/or Terraform
- Experience with streaming and batch data processing technologies such as Kafka, Kafka Streams, Flink, Spark Streaming, or Spark
- Experience working with large-scale data platforms and storage systems (e.g., Hadoop, Hive, Spark, and/or NoSQL data stores)
- Experience building or operating data pipelines (batch and/or streaming)
What the job involves
- Our team’s mission is to build technology that supports and helps grow a sustainable advertising business
- We own server-side services, data, tools, and cloud services that power Roku’s advertising capabilities
- The Advertising Engineering team is looking for a Software Engineer with experience building large-scale, low-latency distributed services and data pipelines to improve delivery, performance, and reliability across our advertising systems
- Roku pioneered TV streaming and continues to innovate and lead the industry
- The Roku Channel has us well-positioned to help shape the future of streaming
- Continued success relies on building products and services that deliver relevant experiences and measurable outcomes for customers and partners
- In this role, you will design, build, and operate software that supports advertising delivery and associated data flows
- You will work closely with engineering peers, product partners, and business stakeholders to clarify requirements, make well-reasoned trade-offs, and deliver improvements iteratively
- You enjoy learning and improving systems over time, and you balance near-term delivery with long-term maintainability
- Design and develop large-scale, low-latency systems to optimise advertising delivery and related user experiences
- Design, develop, and maintain large-scale data applications and data pipelines
- Build and maintain full-stack features, contributing to both backend services and UI components as needed
- Improve reliability through monitoring, automation, and operational best practices, including clear observability and well-documented operational procedures
- Partner with product and business stakeholders to define, build, and maintain features and components
- Ramp quickly on unfamiliar systems, domains, or technologies as our stack and needs evolve
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
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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