Responsibilities
- Design and build components of Roku’s real-time ad auction and marketplace systems.
- Develop multi-objective optimization logic that balances advertiser, publisher, viewer, and Roku outcomes.
- Own software development end to end from problem framing through production rollout.
- Build and operate low-latency, reliable JVM services.
- Use probability, statistics, and experimentation to evaluate changes before and after launch.
- Use AI tooling throughout design, development, testing, and code review.
- Communicate technical trade-offs to engineering and cross-functional partners.
Requirements
- Around six or more years of experience building production software.
- Production experience with Java or another JVM language, or strong experience with C#, C++, or Go and willingness to learn Java.
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale and with low latency.
- Strong grounding in mathematics, algorithms, probability, and statistics applied to real systems.
- Demonstrated fluency with AI and agentic tooling, including the ability to verify agent output and use agents to work effectively in unfamiliar codebases.
- Ad tech, auction, or marketplace experience is preferred.
- Comparable experience solving mathematically rigorous or optimization-heavy problems in another domain is acceptable.
Benefits
- Hybrid working generally consists of office attendance Monday through Thursday, with Fridays generally flexible for remote work unless the role or location requires five days onsite.
- Benefits may include mental health and financial wellness support, healthcare, life and disability coverage, commuter benefits, retirement options, and paid time off according to local policies.
- Reasonable accommodations and adjustments are available in accordance with applicable law.
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.