About the position
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.
Responsibilities
- Work alongside a highly skilled engineering team to design, develop, and maintain large-scale, highly performing, real-time applications
- Own building features, driving directly with the product, and other engineering teams
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills in working with technical and non-technical audiences
- Be an evangelist for best practices across all functions - developers, QA, and infrastructure/ops
- Be an evangelist for platform innovation and reuse
- Deliver top-quality software in a timely fashion
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building large-scale and low-latency distributed systems
- Command of Java or C++
- Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, performance optimization techniques, object-oriented programming, multi-threading, and real-time programming
- Experience with distributed caching, SQL/NoSQL, and other databases is a plus
- Experience with Big Data and cloud services such as AWS/GCP is a plus
- Experience in the advertising domain is a big plus
- B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
- Self-motivated individual with a high level of accountability and ownership
- Critical thinking and practical decision-making
- Can do, results-oriented mindset
- Nonpolitical, collaborative, and team-oriented
- Desire to win in a highly competitive industry
- AI literacy and curiosity
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with distributed caching, SQL/NoSQL, and other databases
- Experience with Big Data and cloud services such as AWS/GCP
- Experience in the advertising domain
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Equity awards
- Life insurance
- Disability benefits
- Parental leave
- Wellness benefits
- Paid time off
- Global access to mental health and financial wellness support
