3 days ago
Base Salary
$221k - $404k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build high-performance metrics-stack components in Go and Rust for large-scale observability workloads.
- Use AI tools and agents for development, code review, testing, operational automation, troubleshooting, and incident response.
- Optimize and extend Roku’s observability platform and introduce AI-assisted capabilities for platform users.
- Standardize and improve observability tooling with the Platform team.
- Improve platform stability, performance, reliability, and usability.
- Build automation for developer onboarding, dashboards, alerts, and traces.
- Contribute tools and improvements to the CNCF and open-source community.
- Collaborate with engineering teams and mentor engineers and interns while leading design discussions and shaping technical direction.
Requirements
- Significant infrastructure engineering and/or DevOps experience focused on observability platforms, typically around 8 years.
- Hands-on experience using AI tools and agents and building with large language models, including areas such as tool/function calling, agents, MCP, RAG, and LLM output evaluation.
- Approximately 4 years of programming experience in Go and/or Rust, preferably with performance-sensitive systems experience.
- Experience designing and operating large-scale observability platforms for metrics, logs, and traces.
- Experience deploying, operating, and extending open-source observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Loki, Tempo, Cortex, Mimir, or the ELK stack.
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and OpenMetrics.
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes and Istio architectures, including scalability and integration improvements.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, and/or Azure.
- Ability to engage with customers and stakeholders to deliver tailored observability solutions.
- B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Health insurance, equity awards, life insurance, disability benefits, parental leave, wellness benefits, and paid time off.
- Additional benefits may include medical, dental, vision, accident, commuter, retirement, mental-health, and financial-wellness support, depending on location and role.
- Hybrid work generally consists of working in the office Monday through Thursday, with Fridays generally flexible for remote work.
Tech Stack
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.