Base Salary
$195k - $408k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate core components of a large-scale real-time distributed decisioning system with strict latency requirements.
- Own specific subsystems end to end, including architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, on-call, and long-term evolution.
- Develop a working model of a complex production system and make high-leverage contributions to its architecture and tooling.
- Diagnose and resolve timing-, statistics-, and concurrency-related issues in a multi-region distributed system.
- Partner with engineers and applied scientists on distributed systems and statistical or ML-driven decision-making.
- Mentor engineers and raise standards for engineering rigor, testing discipline, and operational excellence.
- Drive alignment and communicate with engineering, product, business, and technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale, low-latency distributed systems.
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of complex systems, including design, implementation, operations, on-call, and iteration from production feedback.
- Strong command of Java and foundations in algorithms, data structures, concurrency, multithreading, and performance optimization.
- Practical experience with distributed caching, high-throughput messaging or streaming systems, and SQL/NoSQL datastores.
- Experience operating cloud infrastructure at scale using GCP or AWS.
- Experience evolving and refactoring live, business-critical systems without compromising uptime or correctness.
- 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, with adjacent experience in trading, ranking/recommendation, matchmaking, risk, or fraud systems also valued.
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience using AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor, or similar tools in production work.
- Strong ownership, critical thinking, collaboration, communication, adaptability, and comfort with ambiguity.
Benefits
- Health insurance, equity awards, life insurance, disability benefits, parental leave, wellness benefits, and paid time off.
- Additional benefits may include medical, dental, vision, commuter, retirement, mental health, and financial wellness support.
- Hybrid work is generally Monday through Thursday in the office, with Fridays flexible for remote work unless the role or location requires five days onsite.
Tech Stack
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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.