Base Salary
$195k - $408k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain large-scale, highly performant, real-time applications.
- Own platform features and work directly with product and engineering teams.
- Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Promote engineering best practices across developers, QA, and infrastructure/operations teams.
- Advocate for platform innovation and reuse.
- Deliver high-quality software in a timely manner.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building large-scale, low-latency distributed systems.
- Strong command of Java or C++.
- Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, performance optimization, object-oriented programming, multithreading, and real-time programming.
- Experience with distributed caching, SQL/NoSQL databases, big data, or AWS/GCP is valued.
- Advertising-domain experience is a plus.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Strong accountability, ownership, critical thinking, practical decision-making, collaboration, and results orientation.
- AI literacy or curiosity, including prior use or exploration of generative AI.
- Experience using AI engineering tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, MCP servers, custom skills, or agent frameworks is valued.
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.
- Generally hybrid work with office attendance Monday through Thursday and flexible remote work on Fridays, subject to role and location requirements.
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.