About the teamRoku pioneered streaming to the TV and continues to innovate and lead the industry. As we strive to influence the future of television globally, including TV advertising, the ongoing success depends heavily on our investment in the Content Management System. With Roku providing millions of movies, episodes, news, and channels, the Content Management System plays a vital role in managing content ingestion, selection, enrichment, and curation. We are seeking engineers capable of developing, designing, and deploying highly scalable, reliable applications, tools, and automation frameworks to efficiently handle the vast volume of content in our pipeline.
About the roleWe are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help design and build large-scale video infrastructure powering Roku's Live and VOD streaming workflows. In this role, you will collaborate with video engineers to build systems that ingest, process, and deliver large volumes of video content. You will design and maintain resilient, cloud-native services that operate continuously at scale, solving complex distributed systems challenges across high-throughput media pipelines. This position requires hands-on software development, including writing new code and maintaining critical video infrastructure codebases. The ideal candidate brings deep experience in backend systems engineering and a passion for building reliable, performant services that directly impact how millions of users stream content. This is an opportunity to make meaningful contributions to the infrastructure that powers Roku's streaming platform.
For California Only - The estimated annual salary for this position is between $285,000 - $345,000 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- p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Design, build, optimize, and maintain large-scale data-stream pipelines for Live and VOD video encoding workflows running in cloud environments such as AWS or GCP
- p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Develop high-throughput, low-latency containerized services for video ingestion, decoding, transcoding, packaging, transport, delivery, and ad avail markers management
- p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Architect systems capable of consuming 24/7 video and audio streams from thousands of providers in real time
- p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Design resilient worker-to-worker streaming and transport mechanisms capable of handling network instability, packet loss, retransmission, and continuous data flow at scale
- p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Build scalable orchestration and container-management systems supporting autoscaling, fault tolerance, service recovery, and rolling deployments
- p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Develop advanced real-time monitoring, telemetry, logging, and alerting systems to provide operational visibility and rapid failure detection
We're excited if you have- p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Experience building distributed backend systems and cloud-native infrastructure at scale
- p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Deep understanding of container orchestration, worker lifecycle management, autoscaling, resiliency, and cloud infrastructure patterns
- p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Experience designing systems that continuously process high-throughput data streams with strict reliability and uptime requirements
- p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Experience debugging networking issues, packet loss, transport instability, and distributed system failures in real-time streaming environments
- p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Strong programming skills in one or more of the following: Go, Java, Rust, C, C++, or Python
- p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Hands-on experience with media frameworks and libraries such as GStreamer, FFmpeg, MediaMTX, or similar technologies
- p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Experience with GPU-accelerated encoding or hardware media pipelines
- p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Familiarity with Kubernetes, ECS, Nomad, or other orchestration platforms
- p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, or Datadog
- p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Experience building fault-tolerant ingest or transcoding platforms operating across multiple regions
#LI-JC5What'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.
