Senior Software Engineer, Roku
Cloud Services
$300-360k
+ Equity
More information about location
4-5 days a week in office (San Jose, CA)
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
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Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$300-360k
+ Equity
More information about location
4-5 days a week in office (San Jose, CA)
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
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with significant time in technical leadership roles
- Proven expertise in building scalable, distributed, and streaming solutions in production environments
- Deep experience with content management systems, media processing, or publishing platforms
- Expert-level proficiency in Java or Scala required; Python experience is a strong plus
- Strong expertise in distributed systems architecture, microservices, and event-driven architectures
- Deep understanding of streaming technologies (Kafka, Redpanda, or similar
- Advanced knowledge of databases (SQL/NoSQL), vector databases (eg, Milvus), caching strategies, and data modeling at scale
- Track record of leading complex technical projects from conception to production in high-scale environments
- Excellent communication skills and ability to influence technical decisions across teams and organizations
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) at enterprise scale
- Extensive experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes
- Experience with search technologies (Elasticsearch, Solr, etc) or recommendation systems
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly experienced and skilled Lead Engineer to join our backend and data team
- This role is crucial for designing, building, and optimizing distributed data pipelines, real-time data processing systems, and backend solutions that effectively handle large-scale data
- The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Java, distributed systems, and big data technologies, and a passion for solving complex problems and delivering robust solutions
- We’re always in “build mode” because we’re a company of data-focused builders
- Every day, you’ll look at what exists and find ways to make it better and help drive innovation
- Define architecture and technical strategy, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance at scale
- Provide technical guidance, conduct code reviews, and mentor engineers to elevate team capabilities and foster engineering excellence
- Design and implement robust distributed systems, streaming solutions, content management systems, APIs, and data pipelines that handle high-volume content operations
- Partner with Product, Operations, Business, and other engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions
- Remain significantly hands-on with critical features and architectural components
- Drive technical planning, prioritization, and execution aligned with business objectives
- Act as a key technical partner to the Engineering Manager in driving team success and technical decisions
- Champion a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and continuous. improvement; establish engineering best practices
- Lead efforts in monitoring, observability, performance optimization, and production reliability at scale
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
(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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