4 hours ago
San Jose, CA, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$195k - $408k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate large-scale real-time distributed decisioning components with strict latency requirements.
- Own subsystems end to end, including architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, on-call, and long-term evolution.
- Diagnose and resolve timing-, statistics-, and concurrency-related issues in multi-region production systems.
- Evolve system architecture and tooling while maintaining uptime, correctness, and operational excellence.
- Partner with engineers and applied scientists on distributed systems and statistical or ML-driven decision-making.
- Mentor engineers, improve testing discipline, and raise engineering rigor across the team.
- Communicate and drive alignment with engineering, product, business, and technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale, low-latency distributed systems.
- Experience owning complex systems across design, implementation, operations, on-call, and iteration based on production feedback.
- Experience evolving and refactoring live, business-critical systems without compromising uptime or correctness.
- Strong command of Java, algorithms, data structures, concurrency, multithreading, and performance optimization.
- Practical experience with distributed caching, high-throughput messaging or streaming systems, and SQL or NoSQL datastores.
- Experience operating cloud infrastructure at scale using GCP or AWS.
- Exposure to statistical, control-theory, or ML-driven techniques in production decision-making systems is preferred.
- Real-time bidding or ad-tech experience is preferred; adjacent experience in trading, ranking, recommendation, matchmaking, risk, or fraud systems is also valued.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience using AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor, or similar tools in production work.
- Strong ownership, collaboration, communication, critical thinking, adaptability, and comfort with ambiguity.
Benefits
- Estimated California annual salary range is $195,000–$408,000.
- Eligible benefits include health insurance, equity awards, life insurance, disability benefits, parental leave, wellness benefits, and paid time off.
- Additional benefits may include medical, dental, vision, commuter, retirement, mental-health, and financial-wellness support, subject to location and role eligibility.
- Hybrid work generally consists of working in the office Monday through Thursday, with Fridays generally flexible for remote work unless the role or office requires five days onsite.
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About Roku
Roku builds streaming players, Roku-branded TVs and audio gear, and the Roku OS licensed to TV manufacturers. Its platform supports ad-supported and subscription streaming, including The Roku Channel and Roku Originals, and underpins a significant advertising business. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in San Jose, it is a public company trading on NASDAQ under the ticker ROKU.