Senior DevOps Engineer, Roku
Machine Learning
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
Open for applications
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
1001+ employees
Open for applications
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
- We’re looking for engineers who thrive in collaborative environments, enjoy working across teams, and are passionate about automation, security, and data-driven metrics like SLOs and SLAs
- If you're well-versed in Kubernetes, the CNCF ecosystem, and love optimizing workloads and simplifying debugging for teams, this role is ideal for you
- Extensive experience years in Infrastructure engineering, DevOps and/or Software Engineering, with a focused towards cross-team engagement
- Familiarity with ECS, Kubernetes and Istio as the architecture on which the platform runs, and how they integrate and scale
- Expertise in using open-source observability tools in large scale environments, including (but not limited to) Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK (ElasticSearch + Logstash + Kibana), Jaeger, Kiali, and/or Loki
- Past success in supporting a large, talented engineering team in utilizing a central common platform. Patience, a friendly, helpful approach, and constructive communication are key traits. You must be a "people person" to succeed
- The drive and self-motivation to understand the intricate details of a complex infrastructure environment
- Independently driven in a highly distributed, multi-national team spread across numerous time zones
- Hands on experience working with AWS and/or GCP
- Experience with a high-level scripting or infra language (such as Terraform, Helm, Shell, and/or Python) and being part of on call rotations
- B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experienceTeamwork makes the stream work
What the job involves
- The Advanced Development team pushes the boundaries beyond product lines to build genuinely new things
- We think independently of standard shipping cadences and timelines, working on foundational technologies that could impact every Roku device in the future and on ideas that no one’s seen in their living room yet
- We are now seeking a skilled Sr DevOps Engineer to join the Advance Development Team
- This team is pivotal in building and scaling our platform, utilisng technologies such as Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, and other OSS/CNCF-supported tools
- You will be crucial in driving Roku’s transition to a unified, cloud-agnostic system, maintaining and enhancing our service mesh architecture, observability platform, and CI tooling
- Work on AWS ECS, Kubernetes & Service Mesh to manage our growing fleet of clusters globally
- Identify key feature gaps, bugs, scalability issues, and other challenges when working with internal customers
- Collaborate with the internal team, stakeholders, and partners to implement effective solutions
- Provide daily support to customers as they onboard and use our platforms, helping them optimize value, performance, and reliability for their workloads
- Contribute to enhancing our platforms' capabilities, prioritizing reliability and scalability
- Conduct feature, functionality, and usability trials for new tools that could benefit Roku
- Exhibit strong communication skills and maintain a support-oriented approach when interacting with both technical and non-technical audiences
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
(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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