Roku

Senior Software Engineer, Ad Serving

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8 hours ago
Boston, MA, USASenior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$196k - $352k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain large-scale, highly performant real-time applications.
  • Build and own features in collaboration with product and engineering teams.
  • Promote best practices across development, QA, and infrastructure/operations functions.
  • Advocate for platform innovation and reuse.
  • Deliver high-quality software in a timely manner.
  • Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences and mentor teammates.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience building large-scale, low-latency distributed systems.
  • Strong command of Java or C++.
  • Understanding of algorithms, data structures, performance optimization, object-oriented programming, multithreading, and real-time programming.
  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.
  • Experience with distributed caching, SQL/NoSQL databases, big data, AWS, or GCP is a plus.
  • Advertising-domain experience is a plus.
  • AI literacy or curiosity, including prior use or exploration of generative AI.
  • Strong accountability, ownership, critical thinking, practical decision-making, collaboration, and communication skills.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work generally includes office attendance Monday through Thursday and flexible remote work on Fridays, subject to role and location requirements.
  • Benefits may include health, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, parental leave, mental health and financial wellness support, commuter benefits, retirement options, wellness benefits, and paid time off.
Roku

About Roku

1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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