Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Services

The revolution won’t be televised. It will be streamed. We’re re-inventing the way the world watches TV, and that’s a story we’d like your help telling.

About the role

Roku pioneered TV streaming and continues to innovate and lead the industry. The Roku Channel has us well-positioned to help shape the future of streaming. Continued success relies on investing in the Roku Cloud TV Platform, so we deliver a high-quality streaming TV experience at a global scale.

We seek a candidate with boundless curiosity and a global mindset, coupled with the ability to execute locally. You should be a resilient problem solver and self-starter capable of driving programs in collaboration with product and commercial teams both within Roku and with external strategic partners. The ideal candidate will possess a blend of hard and soft skills, including agility in responding to evolving business needs. This role is perfect for a senior professional seeking high visibility, relishing critical business impact, and making pivotal decisions. Join us in working on a core content pipeline component crucial for many streaming aspects at Roku.

About the Team

The Content Management team at Roku is instrumental in developing vital systems for content ingestion, enrichment, management, and curation. Our focus lies in engineering scalable, reliable automation frameworks and content pipelines to streamline content delivery to customers, resulting in effectively slashing lead times. Our contributions directly impact millions of Roku users globally, empowering critical functions like Search & Recommendation on the Roku Platform. We take the lead in building and designing robust systems, fostering collaboration with key stakeholders across multiple engineering teams.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing and implementing highly scalable, reliable web-scale applications, tools, and automation frameworks to power the Roku Content Management System.
• Working closely with the product management team, content management services, and other internal product engineering teams to contribute to the evolution of the Roku Content Management Systems and Tools.
• Designing and building data pipelines for batch, near-real-time, and real-time processing.
• Translating functional specifications into logical, component-based technical designs.
• Writing and reviewing code, evaluating architectural tradeoffs for performance and security.
• Participating in architecture discussions, influencing the product roadmap, and taking ownership and responsibility over new projects.
• Managing individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables with limited supervision.

We're Excited if You Have

• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• 5+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer.
• Proficiency in Java/Scala/Python.
• Strong technical competency and experience in building high-performance, cloud-based scalable microservices.
• Experience with Microservice and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with design and implementation of modern microservices architectures and API frameworks (REST/JSON).
• Experience with cloud platforms: AWS (preferred), GCP, etc.
• Experience with NoSQL data storage technologies such as Cassandra, DynamoDB, Redis, etc., as well as RDBMS like Oracle or MySQL.
• Ability to handle periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests; strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science plus 8 years of experience or equivalent; Master's degree preferred.

Join our team and be a part of revolutionising content management systems, directly impacting the Roku experience worldwide!