Senior Software Engineer, Rokt
Compute & Network Infrastructure
$300-325k
OTE
$200-225k
BASE
+ Equity
4 days a week in office
eCommerce technology & software solutions
Be an early applicant
eCommerce technology & software solutions
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$300-325k
OTE
$200-225k
BASE
+ Equity
4 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make eCommerce smarter, faster, and better.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in platform, SRE, or DevOps engineering roles, with a focus on Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure
- Deep expertise in AWS EKS, ECR, container orchestration (Helm, Argo), and core Kubernetes addons
- Hands-on mastery of Spark on Kubernetes (Gateway, Operator) and workflow schedulers like Flyte or Airflow
- Strong scripting and automation skills (Bash, Python, Terraform) and proficiency with Linux administration
- Clear communicator who thrives in fast-paced, collaborative environments and can evangelize best practices across teams
- Familiarity with network topology (VPCs, peering, Istio)
What the job involves
- As our Compute & Network Engineer, you’ll architect and operate the foundational control plane and data services that power our containerized workloads—spanning EKS clusters, core addons, container registries, batch processing gateways, and inter-region networking
- You’ll ensure our platform delivers resilient compute, seamless streaming, and the tooling teams need to ship at peak velocity
- Design, deploy, and manage EKS clusters and ECR registries (supporting both Linux and macOS agents)
- Own the full suite of EKS core and observability addons—CSI/CNI/CoreDNS, Cert-Manager, Gatekeeper, Ingress controllers, Karpenter, KEDA, Argo Rollouts, External Secrets, Velero, YuniKorn scheduler, and image swapper
- Enable batch workloads on Kubernetes by operating our Spark Gateway API and Spark Operator, and support Spark RBAC, scheduling queues, and history servers
- Build and maintain our workflow engine and related automation for orchestration of complex data and ML pipelines
- Architect and maintain network foundations—VPCs, subnets, peering, edge gateways, and Istio service mesh—to ensure secure, high-performance connectivity across regions
Our take
eCommerce marketing company Rokt is helping brands leverage the power of good timing. With Rokt, brands can present their customers with AI-curated offers and messages at every stage in their transaction, at tailored times of the day, or to market themselves at the point of transaction on other major eCommerce sites.
The idea is that “transaction moments” are when shoppers are most inclined to engage further with the brand or its products - the success of Rokt’s clients, and the runaway success of Rokt itself, show that it's successfully cracked it.
Rokt has a strong client base that includes giants like Groupon, GoDaddy, and Disney, and after hitting Unicorn status, it is eyeing up a US IPO. This should come as no surprise - the surge in eCommerce trade over recent years has led to most companies investing in tools to stay competitive.
Rokt has expanded its tool suite since it first started up, and will be focused on continuing to innovate to keep ahead of the MarTech pack, and abreast of changing demand in the rapidly shifting market. The eCommerce marketing tech sector has ballooned to a $120B global operation - Rokt is positioned comfortably to keep ahead.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2021
$325m
SERIES E
Oct 2020
$80m
SERIES D
Total funding: $488.1m
Company benefits
- Interest groups, sports clubs, and social events
- Global training events & online training courses
- Stock options
- Global all-staff events in amazing locations (Phuket, Thailand in January 2020)
- Generous relocation packages
- Generous time off
- Parental leave
- Mental health and wellness days
- Paid Sabbatical for employees who have been with us 3 years or more
- £55 per month social/wellness allowance, 6 sessions with a licensed therapist, 6 coaching sessions and other mental health perks
- Gym membership
- Premium health insurance
- £25 per month telephone allowance
Company HQ
Hudson Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Bruce Buchanan
(CEO)Previously a Principal at Boston Consulting Group, before serving as Chief Commercial Officer, then Group Chief Executive Officer at Jetstar Airways.
Justin Viles
(Advisor)Previously worked on strategic partnerships in the APAC region for Google, before moving on to co-found and serve as CEO at Rocklive.
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