4 hours 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 subsystems end to end across architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, on-call operations, and long-term evolution.
- Develop expertise in a complex distributed production system and identify opportunities to improve its architecture and tooling.
- Diagnose and resolve timing-, statistics-, concurrency-, and reliability-related issues in a multi-region 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.
- Communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders and drive alignment across engineering, product, and business teams.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale, low-latency distributed systems, preferably including a system built substantially from the ground up.
- Demonstrated ownership of complex systems across design, implementation, operations, on-call, and production-driven iteration.
- Strong command of Java and foundations in algorithms, data structures, concurrency, multithreading, and performance optimization.
- Experience with distributed caching, high-throughput messaging or streaming systems, and SQL or NoSQL datastores.
- Experience operating cloud infrastructure at scale using GCP or AWS.
- Ability to evolve business-critical live systems while maintaining uptime and correctness.
- Exposure to statistical, control-theory, or ML-driven techniques in production decision-making is a plus.
- Real-time bidding or ad-tech experience is a plus; adjacent experience in trading, ranking or recommendation, matchmaking, risk, or fraud systems is 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 in production work, with sound judgment about verifying and applying their output.
- Strong ownership, critical thinking, collaboration, communication, adaptability, and comfort with ambiguity.
Benefits
- Annual base salary for New York applicants is $195,000–$408,000, with eligibility for health insurance, equity awards, life insurance, disability benefits, parental leave, wellness benefits, and paid time off.
- Additional benefits may include medical, dental, vision, accident, commuter, retirement, mental-health, and financial-wellness support, subject to location and role.
- Hybrid work generally involves working in the office Monday through Thursday, with Fridays generally flexible for remote work unless the role or location requires five-day attendance.
- Roku provides reasonable 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.