18 hours ago
Base Salary
$221k - $404k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build high-performance metrics-stack components in Go and Rust for terabyte-scale data volumes.
- Use AI tools and agents for coding, testing, operations, troubleshooting, and incident response.
- Scale, optimize, and improve the reliability and usability of Roku’s observability platform.
- Standardize observability tooling and build automation for dashboards, alerts, traces, and developer onboarding.
- Contribute tools and improvements to the CNCF and open-source communities.
- Collaborate with platform and engineering teams to deliver tailored observability solutions.
- Lead design discussions, mentor engineers and interns, and influence the platform’s technical direction.
Requirements
- Significant infrastructure engineering and/or DevOps experience, typically around 8 years, focused on observability platforms.
- Hands-on experience using AI tools and agents and building with Large Language Models, including agents, tool/function calling, MCP, RAG, and LLM evaluation.
- Approximately 4 years of programming experience in Go and/or Rust, ideally with performance-sensitive systems.
- 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 and their scalability and integration concerns.
- 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. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
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, dental and vision coverage, life, accident and disability insurance, commuter benefits, retirement options, mental health and financial wellness resources, parental leave, wellness benefits, and paid time off.
- Roku provides reasonable workplace accommodations and adjustments in accordance with applicable law.
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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.