Senior Software Engineer, Roku
Observability
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
- Extensive Experience: 8+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering and/or DevOps, with a focus on observability platforms
- Large-Scale Expertise: Proven experience designing and operating observability platforms that process massive amounts of data (metrics, logs, and traces) to provide actionable insights
- Tool Mastery: Expertise in deploying and operating open-source observability tools at scale, such as Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Loki, Tempo, or similar solutions like Cortex, Mimir, or the ELK stack
- Standards Knowledge: Familiarity with open standards like OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, and OpenMetrics
- Kubernetes & Istio: Deep understanding of Kubernetes and Istio architectures, and the ability to contribute improvements for scalability and integration
- Collaboration Skills: Strong ability to engage with customers and stakeholders to deliver tailored observability solutions
- Cloud Expertise: Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, and/or Azure
- Development Proficiency: 4+ years of experience with programming languages such as Go, Python, or similar. While we primarily use Go, we welcome experience with other languages if you're open to focusing on Go in this role
- Education: B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- As a Tech Lead on Roku’s Observability team, you will take ownership of a platform that ingests terabytes of telemetry data daily and supports hundreds of millions of active time series.
- This role offers the opportunity to lead engineering efforts that directly impact the stability, performance, and usability of our observability stack.
- You’ll drive the technical direction for integrating open-source observability tools at scale, standardise monitoring practices across teams, and collaborate closely with platform and application engineers to ensure seamless, efficient, and tailored solutions.
- Your work will include building automation to simplify onboarding, contributing to the CNCF ecosystem, and delivering high-quality, scalable infrastructure that empowers developers across Roku. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who thrives in a fast-moving environment and is passionate about solving complex challenges with clarity and purpose
- Scaling and Innovating: Enhance and optimise Roku's observability stack to handle terabytes of data daily and hundreds of millions of active series, while introducing Roku-specific features and innovations
- Tooling and Standardisation: Work with the Platform team to identify, standardise, and improve observability tools as part of a cohesive solution
- Stability and Performance: Invest in making the observability platform more stable, performant, and reliable for all users
- Open Source Contributions: Contribute new open-source tools and improvements back to the CNCF ecosystem
- Automation and Usability: Build automation around observability tools to simplify onboarding for developers (dashboards, alerts, traces, etc.)
- Collaboration and Engagement: Partner with engineering teams to build solutions that assist in a better ‘out of the box’ experience and drive innovation
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
(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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