Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Content PlatformRoku • San Jose, Arizona, United States
Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Content Platform
Roku
- San Jose, Arizona, United States
- San Jose, Arizona, United States
À propos
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 streaming to the TV and continues to innovate and lead the industry. While we are well-positioned to help shape the future of television – including TV advertising – around the world, continued success relies on its investment in our machine learning capabilities. Roku offers millions of options to our users: movies, episodes, news, sports, and channels from all around the world. The Roku Content Platform is key to onboarding content into the Roku ecosystem, delighting our customers. Building a content knowledge platform that provides insights to downstream systems like Search, Recommendations, Ads, and Voice to shape customers' experiences.
About the role 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.
For California Only - The estimated annual base salary for this position is between $300,000 - $360,000 annually. Compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, certifications, and specific geographical location. This role is eligible for health insurance, equity awards, life insurance, disability benefits, parental leave, wellness benefits, and paid time off.
What you’ll be doing
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
We're excited if you have
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
Our Hybrid Work Approach Roku fosters an inclusive and collaborative environment where teams work in the office Monday through Thursday. Fridays are flexible for remote work except for employees whose roles are required to be in the office five days a week or employees who are in offices with a five day in office policy.
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 supported in taking time off, in accordance with local leave policies and other personal needs to support their evolving work and life needs. It's important to note that not every benefit is available in all locations or for every role. For details specific to your location, please consult with your recruiter.
Accommodations Roku welcomes applicants of all backgrounds and provides reasonable accommodations and adjustments in accordance with applicable law. If you require reasonable accommodation at any point in the hiring process, please direct your inquiries to EmployeeRelations@Roku.com.
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Compétences linguistiques
- English
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