About the Role

A highly scalable, highly available, real-time advertising platform is critical to supporting and growing Roku's rapidly expanding ad business. The mission of the Ad Engineering team is to build this platform. The Ad Serving team designs, builds, deploys, and operates Roku's Supply-Side, Ad Mediation, and Demand-Side platforms, which sit at the core of Roku's ad monetization and are critical to the business. We are looking for a transformational leader to drive the Ad Mediation area - delivering broad strategic, architectural, and cross-functional impact across Roku's advertising platform.

For California Only - The estimated annual salary for this position is between $360,000 and $440,000 annually. Compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, certifications, and specific geographical location. This role is eligible for health insurance, equity awards, life insurance, disability benefits, parental leave, wellness benefits, and paid time off.

How will I use AI at Roku?

At Roku, we don't just use AI, we work with it. AI agents and smart tools help power drafts, analysis, and repetitive workflows, while our people bring direction, judgment, and accountability. We're looking for curious, adaptable builders who can show how they've used AI or automation to move faster, raise the bar, and scale their impact.

We value your AI skills if you have built fluency across the agentic engineering toolchain - coding harnesses like Claude Code or Cursor, MCP servers, custom skills, or agent frameworks. And you can describe projects where you shipped real work with these tools. You know how to drive an agent, verify its output, and ramp on an unfamiliar codebase with an agent helping you.

What You'll Be Doing

• Define and drive a multi-year technical strategy, influencing architecture across multiple teams
• Set the long-term technical vision and take end-to-end ownership of the scalability, stability, and performance of Roku's ad serving mediation platforms - systems operating at massive scale with significant revenue impact
• Shape product direction by deeply understanding Roku's advertising business, marketplace dynamics, and long-term monetization strategy
• Lead and grow high-performing engineering teams to execute ambitious product and technical roadmaps
• Hire, grow, and retain top talent, fostering a healthy environment where individuals can do their best work
• Lead initiatives to significantly improve developer productivity by streamlining development workflows, modernizing tooling, and reducing operational load

We're Excited If You Have

• 10+ years of experience architecting and building large distributed systems, with a proven track record of leading complex systems in dynamic, high-growth environments
• Track record of building and leading high-performing senior and staff+ engineering teams
• Perform as a staff+ technologist on complex, low-latency, revenue-critical, large-scale distributed backend systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication and collaboration skills
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams and initiatives
• Experience fostering AI-first thinking within engineering teams to drive innovation
• Expertise in advertising is a plus
• AI literacy and curiosity. You have either 1) tried Gen AI in your previous work or outside of work or 2) are curious about Gen AI and have explored it

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What's Roku's approach to hybrid working?

Roku fosters an inclusive and collaborative environment where teams generally work in the office Monday through Thursday. Fridays are generally flexible for remote work, except for employees whose specific roles or assigned office location require five days' a week attendance.

What are some of the benefits?

Roku is committed to offering a diverse range of benefits as part of our compensation package to support our employees and their families. Our comprehensive benefits include global access to mental health and financial wellness support and resources. Local benefits include statutory and voluntary benefits which may include healthcare (medical, dental, and vision), life, accident, disability, commuter, and retirement options (401(k)/pension). Employees are supported in taking time off, in accordance with local leave policies and other personal needs to support their evolving work and life needs. It's important to note that not every benefit is available in all locations or for every role. For details specific to your location, please consult with your recruiter.