2 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and contribute to large-scale, real-time distributed decisioning components with strict latency requirements.
- Own features and subsystems through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production iteration.
- Develop a working mental model of a complex, highly distributed production system and identify opportunities to improve its architecture and tooling.
- Partner with engineers and applied scientists on distributed systems and statistical or ML-driven decision-making.
- Diagnose and resolve timing-, statistics-, and concurrency-related issues in multi-region business-critical systems.
- Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across engineering, product, and business teams.
- Promote development, testing, and operational best practices.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale, low-latency distributed systems.
- Strong command of Java and foundations in algorithms, data structures, concurrency, multithreading, and performance optimization.
- Experience with distributed caching, high-throughput messaging or streaming systems, and SQL or NoSQL datastores.
- Experience operating at scale in GCP or AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Experience owning production features or subsystems through design, build, testing, deployment, and iteration.
- Ability to work in complex unfamiliar codebases and contribute to live business-critical systems while maintaining uptime and correctness.
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 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 or recommendation, matchmaking, risk, or fraud systems is also valued.
- Experience using AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor, or similar tools.
Benefits
- Benefits may include healthcare, dental, vision, life, accident, disability, commuter, retirement, mental health, and financial wellness support, subject to location and role eligibility.
- Employees receive time off according to local leave policies and personal needs.
- The role generally works in the office Monday through Thursday, with Fridays generally flexible for remote work unless the role or location requires five-day attendance.
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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.