3 months ago
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.
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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.