Sr. SW Engineer

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Roku is changing how the world watches TV

Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., 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 worldwide while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines.

About The Role

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 and streaming media worldwide, continued success stems from experienced software engineers like you developing core features for the Roku platform.

Our new Senior Software Engineer will be contributing extensively to our container orchestrated platform, bringing together some of the latest client and server-side technologies to develop a truly scalable and robust solution. To be successful you’ll need extensive experience of building reliable and scalable cloud-based solutions, a strong background in software engineering and an appetite to keep on top of modern software practices. This is a great role for a senior professional who enjoys a high level of visibility and thrives on great business impact.

The features and performance improvements you implement directly impact millions of users every day. This is a great role for an experienced professional who has innovative ideas for complex problems and can translate these ideas into ultra-reliable software.

What you’ll be doing

• Design, develop and deliver high-quality web applications and back-end services
• Work as a part of a high functioning team consisting of UX designers, software engineers, dev-ops, quality assurance and product management
• Work both independently and paired with other team members to ensure efficient delivery of prioritised features
• Take part in the planning and refinement of features along with the team to come up with innovative and collaborative designs
• Work with CI/CD tools to ensure that all software developed adheres to both quality and scaling requirements
• Take a role in continuously improving our software delivery process, making it as efficient as possible, reducing wasteful activities and creating value
• See a feature go all the way from design stage to being deployed into customer facing environments
• Demonstrate the ability to dig deep to find solutions to challenging problems affecting our users
  

We’re excited if you have

• 7+ years of experience building large scale, low latency, real-time distributed systems
• 5+ years of working with cloud-based technology, AWS preferred
• Command of Java, including multi-threading and real-time programming
• Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, performance optimization techniques and object-oriented programming
• Experience with distributed caching, SQL/NO SQL, and other databases is a plus
• Experience with Big Data is a plus
• Experience in advertising domain is a big plus
• Understanding of container-based orchestration, preferably Kubernetes
• Experience using infrastructure as code software tools such as Terraform
• In-depth understanding of CI/CD and the tools used to implement them such as Jenkins
• Experience of build systems such as Pants and Bazel
• A good understanding of Agile practices
• Ability to accurately estimate software tasks and work to schedule
• B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
  

The Roku culture

Roku is a great place for people who want to work in a fast-paced environment where everyone is focused on the company’s success rather than their own. We try to surround ourselves with people who are great at their jobs, who are easy to work with, and who keep their egos in check. We appreciate a sense of humour. We believe a fewer number of very talented folks can do more for less cost than a larger number of less talented teams. We’re independent thinkers with big ideas who act boldly, move fast and accomplish extraordinary things through collaboration and trust. In short, at Roku you’ll be part of a company that’s changing how the world watches TV.

We have a unique culture that we are proud of. We think of ourselves primarily as problem-solvers, which itself is a two-part idea. We come up with the solution, but the solution isn’t real until it is built and delivered to the customer. That penchant for action gives us a pragmatic approach to innovation, one that has served us well since 2002.