Responsibilities
- Design, build, optimize, and maintain large-scale data-stream pipelines for Live and VOD video encoding workflows in cloud environments.
- Develop high-throughput, low-latency containerized services for video ingestion, decoding, transcoding, packaging, transport, delivery, and ad avail marker management.
- Architect systems that consume continuous 24/7 video and audio streams from thousands of providers in real time.
- Design resilient worker-to-worker streaming and transport mechanisms that handle network instability, packet loss, retransmission, and continuous data flow at scale.
- Build scalable orchestration and container-management systems supporting autoscaling, fault tolerance, service recovery, and rolling deployments.
- Develop real-time monitoring, telemetry, logging, and alerting systems for operational visibility and rapid failure detection.
Requirements
- Experience building distributed backend systems and cloud-native infrastructure at scale.
- Deep understanding of container orchestration, worker lifecycle management, autoscaling, resiliency, and cloud infrastructure patterns.
- Experience designing systems that continuously process high-throughput data streams with strict reliability and uptime requirements.
- Experience debugging networking issues, packet loss, transport instability, and distributed-system failures in real-time streaming environments.
- Strong programming skills in one or more of Go, Java, Rust, C, C++, or Python.
- Hands-on experience with media frameworks and libraries such as GStreamer, FFmpeg, or MediaMTX.
- Experience with GPU-accelerated encoding or hardware media pipelines.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, ECS, Nomad, or other orchestration platforms.
- Experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, or Datadog.
- Experience building fault-tolerant ingest or transcoding platforms operating across multiple regions.
- Experience using AI or automation tools such as coding harnesses, MCP servers, custom skills, or agent frameworks is valued.
Benefits
- Hybrid work generally consists of Monday through Thursday in the office, with Fridays generally flexible for remote work unless the role or location requires five-day attendance.
- Benefits may include healthcare coverage, mental health and financial wellness support, life, accident, disability, commuter, retirement options, and paid time off according to local policies.
- Roku provides reasonable accommodations and adjustments during the hiring process.
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About Roku
With the #1 platform for streaming television in the U.S., Roku wants to revolutionize the way the world watches TV. Our Roku-branded TVs, Roku TV models, Smart Home system, streaming players, audio equipment, and the purpose-built operating system that powers it all can turn any home into a home theater, with seamless integration of hardware and software. Our commitment to our users extends to our brand studio, which creates innovative Roku Originals exclusively for The Roku Channel, a free channel that reaches approximately 80 million households in the U.S. and Mexico. Join us and you'll have the chance to delight millions of TV streamers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines. Be a part of shaping the future of streaming at weareroku.com.