Senior Software Engineer

About the role

Teamwork makes the stream work.

Roku is changing how the world watches TV

Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and we've set our sights on powering every television in the world. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. Our mission is to be the TV streaming platform that connects the entire TV ecosystem. We connect consumers to the content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers unique capabilities to engage consumers.

From your first day at Roku, you'll make a valuable - and valued - contribution. We're a fast-growing public company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of TV streamers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines.

What you'll be doing

- Develop software that powers Roku's content browse and discovery experiences on and off-platform.

- Responsible for building services at scale, and for full software lifecycle from development to deployment in production, to monitoring and troubleshooting.

- Design and code services that offer low latencies for our users and that aim to operate reliably despite underlying failures.

- Responsible for database selection and storage design that works across AWS regions.

- Use understanding of cloud cost allocation and optimization to deliver a great user experience at reasonable cost to our cloud teams.

- Build large scale cloud services in AWS.

- Appropriate selection of data stores and analysis of tradeoffs.

- Responsible for in-memory caching layers such as Redis, Redis Cluster, and Memcached.

- Monitor quality of deployments and troubleshooting of productions systems.

- Understand the end-to-end architecture of the web, from end user device to a service in a datacenter.

You are required to have

- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.

- 5 years of progressive experience in the position or a related occupation.

Must have at least 1 year of prior work experience in the following:

- Building large scale cloud service in private or managed cloud providers.

- Selection of data stores and analysis of tradeoffs.

- In-memory caching layers to accelerate application performance.

- Monitoring quality of deploys and troubleshooting of production systems.

- End-to-end architecture of the web, from end user device to a service in a datacenter.

Up to one day per week telecommuting may be permitted.

For California Only - The annual salary for this position is $442,000 - $527,000.

Compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, certifications, and specific geographical location.