Roku

Senior Software Engineer, Observability

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Base Salary

$221k - $404k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build high-performance metrics-stack components in Go and Rust.
  • Use AI tools and agents for development, testing, operations, troubleshooting, and incident response.
  • Scale and optimize Roku’s observability platform and introduce AI-assisted capabilities.
  • Standardize and improve observability tooling with the Platform team.
  • Improve platform stability, performance, reliability, automation, and developer usability.
  • Build onboarding automation for dashboards, alerts, traces, and related observability workflows.
  • Contribute tools and improvements to the CNCF open-source ecosystem.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams and stakeholders to deliver tailored observability solutions.
  • Lead design discussions, mentor engineers and interns, and shape the platform’s technical direction.

Requirements

  • Typically around 8 years of infrastructure engineering and/or DevOps experience focused on observability platforms.
  • Typically around 4 years of programming experience in Go and/or Rust, preferably with performance-sensitive systems.
  • Experience using AI tools and agents in development and operations, including practical experience with LLM applications such as tool/function calling, agents, MCP, RAG, and LLM-output evaluation.
  • 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 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.
  • Global mental health and financial wellness support, plus local healthcare, commuter, retirement, and other statutory or voluntary benefits where applicable.
  • Hybrid work generally consists of working in the office Monday through Thursday, with Fridays generally flexible for remote work.
  • Roku provides reasonable accommodations and adjustments in accordance with applicable law.

Tech Stack

AmbassadorAWSAzureGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaIstioKubernetesPrometheusRust

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About Roku

1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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