Responsibilities
- Extend and integrate open-source observability systems and overhaul storage layers and query paths when needed.
- Build services that improve observability performance, usability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Implement pre-aggregation, downsampling, and sampling to reduce load and accelerate queries.
- Create developer-facing capabilities for metrics, logs, traces, data quality, and cost management.
- Automate onboarding, dashboards, alerting, and tracing.
- Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to integrate observability into Roku’s cloud-native stack and contribute improvements to the open-source community.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience building distributed, high-throughput systems or observability platforms.
- 4+ years of experience with Go.
- Experience with or strong interest in Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, ELK/OpenSearch, and ClickHouse.
- Experience with observability standards including OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, and OpenMetrics.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and data models.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud platforms including AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Benefits
- Healthcare benefits may include medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus life, accident, disability, commuter, and retirement options such as 401(k) or pension.
- Global mental health and financial wellness support and resources are available.
- Paid time off is available for vacation and personal reasons.
- Benefit availability varies by location and role.
Tech Stack
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.