Senior Software Engineer, Roku
Cloud Infrastructure & Observability
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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
- Extensive experience with software engineering with a track record of architecting distributed systems or platforms at scale
- Strong hands‑on experience in Golang and one scripting language (e.g., Python or Shell)
- Experience operating observability at pb-scale ingestion and hundreds of millions of series
- Expertise in observability platforms and tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, ELK/OpenSearch, ClickHouse) and standards (OpenTelemetry, OpenMetrics)
- Deep experience building systems of scale and operating cloud infrastructure with Kubernetes; strong proficiency with service mesh technologies (Istio/Envoy), infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform) and experience in multi‑cloud (AWS, GCP)
- Demonstrated ability to evolve storage and query architectures for cost, scale, and latency (e.g., TSDB, Parquet, distributed processing)
- Proven experience integrating security as part of infrastructure and platform development
- Exceptional cross‑functional communication; effective collaboration with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
- Culture fit: independent thinker, pragmatic problem‑solver, low‑ego collaborator who moves fast and focuses on company success
- Experience integrating AI tools to improve processes and reduce toil
- Open‑source contributions in CNCF projects is preferred but not mandatory
What the job involves
- We are building a next-generation observability and cloud platform that is high-performance, cost-efficient, secure, and scalable across multi-region, multi-cloud clusters. You will lead the architecture and evolution of Roku’s observability and cloud infrastructure stack
- This includes metrics, logs, traces, telemetry pipelines, service mesh, developer experience, and reliability of systems that power thousands of services and millions of devices
- You will drive a vision where developers gain deep visibility with minimal overhead, onboarding is seamless, and insights are available in real time. Your work will directly help Roku scale efficiently while maintaining reliability, cost control, and performance
- Architect and lead Roku’s observability platform across metrics, logs, and traces; evolve data pipelines and storage layers optimized for high throughput, performance, and cost at Roku scale (TSDBs, Parquet, distributed processing)
- Extend and harden open‑source observability systems; overhaul core components (e.g., storage layers, query paths) to improve performance, reliability, and usability at scale
- Implement features such as pre‑aggregation, down-sampling, and sampling to reduce load and accelerate queries across the platform
- Collaborate across platform, SRE, and product teams to migrate hundreds of workloads to our common platform; augment and automate CI/CD flows and onboarding
- Integrate security into infrastructure and platform services; ensure robust multi‑tenant, multi‑cluster, and multi‑cloud designs
- Contribute improvements back to open source and CNCF‑aligned projects; shape standards adoption (OpenTelemetry, OpenMetrics) across the company
- Mentor engineers; establish best practices for reliability, efficiency, and cost management across service mesh and observability domains
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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