Senior Software Engineer - Backend and Data

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.

About the Team

Roku pioneered TV streaming and continues to innovate and lead the industry. Continued success relies on investing in the Roku Content Platform, so we deliver high quality streaming TV experience at a global scale. As part of our Content Platform team you join a small group of highly skilled engineers, that own significant responsibility in crafting, developing and maintaining our large-scale backend systems, data pipelines, storage, and processing services. We provide all insights in regard to all content on Roku Devices.

 About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with vast experience in backend development, Data Engineering and Data Analytics to focus on building next level content platform and data intelligence, which empowers Search, Recommendation, and many more critical systems across Roku Platform. This is an excellent role for a senior professional who enjoys a high level of visibility, thrives on having a critical business impact, able to make critical decisions and is excited to work on a core data platform component which is crucial for many streaming components at Roku.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Work closely with product management team, content data platform services, and other internal consumer teams to contribute extensively to our content data platform and underlying architecture.
• Build low-latency and optimized streaming and batch data pipelines to enable downstream services.
• Build and support our Micro-services based Event-Driven Backend Systems & Data Platform.
• Design and build data pipelines for batch, near-real-time, and real-time processing.
• Participate in architecture discussions, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects.

We’re excited if you have

• 8+ years professional experience as a Software Engineer.
• Proficiency in Java/Scala/Python.
• Deep understanding of backend technologies, architecture patterns, and best practices, including microservices, RESTful APIs, message queues, caching, and databases.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, data structures and algorithms, with the ability to translate complex technical requirements into scalable and efficient solutions.
• Experience with Micro-service and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with Apache Spark and Apache Flink.
• Experience with Big Data Frameworks and Tools: MapReduce, Hive, Presto, HDFS, YARN, Kafka, etc.
• Experience with Apache Airflow or similar workflow orchestration tooling for ETL.
• Experience with cloud platforms: AWS (preferred), GCP, etc.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• BS in Computer Science; MS in Computer Science preferred.
• AI literacy and curiosity.You have either tried Gen AI in your previous work or outside of work or are curious about Gen AI and have explored it.

What’s Roku’s approach to hybrid working?

Roku fosters an inclusive and collaborative environment where teams generally work in the office Monday through Thursday. Fridays are generally flexible for remote work, except for employees whose specific roles or assigned office location require five days’ a week attendance.

What are some of the benefits?

Roku is committed to offering a diverse range of benefits as part of our compensation package to support our employees and their families. Our comprehensive benefits include global access to mental health and financial wellness support and resources. Local benefits include statutory and voluntary benefits which may include healthcare (medical, dental, and vision), life, accident, disability, commuter, and retirement options (401(k)/pension). Employees are suppo…