Roku

Senior Software Engineer

Roku$442K — $500K+*
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
  • 5 years of progressive experience in a related position.
  • Experience building large scale cloud services in cloud providers.
  • Proficiency in data storage selection and tradeoff analysis.
  • Experience with in-memory caching layers to enhance application performance.

Responsibilities

  • Develop software for Roku's content browsing and discovery experiences.
  • Build large-scale services and manage the full software lifecycle.
  • Design and implement low latency, reliable services.
  • Select databases and design storage solutions for AWS regions.
  • Optimize cloud service costs while ensuring user experience.
  • Manage in-memory caching layers to improve system performance.
  • Monitor deployment quality and troubleshoot production systems.

Benefits

  • Health insurance including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Equity awards and life insurance options.
  • Disability benefits and parental leave.
  • Wellness benefits and paid time off.
  • Global access to mental health and financial wellness resources.
Full Job Description
What you'll be doing
  • Develop software that powers Roku's content browse and discovery experiences on and off-platform.
  • Responsible for building services at scale, and for full software lifecycle from development to deployment in production, to monitoring and troubleshooting.
  • Design and code services that offer low latencies for our users and that aim to operate reliably despite underlying failures.
  • Responsible for database selection and storage design that works across AWS regions.
  • Use understanding of cloud cost allocation and optimization to deliver a great user experience at reasonable cost to our cloud teams.
  • Build large scale cloud services in AWS.
  • Appropriate selection of data stores and analysis of tradeoffs.
  • Responsible for in-memory caching layers such as Redis, Redis Cluster, and Memcached.
  • Monitor quality of deployments and troubleshooting of productions systems.
  • Understand the end-to-end architecture of the web, from end user device to a service in a datacenter.
You are required to have
  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
  • 5 years of progressive experience in the position or a related occupation.

Must have at least 1 year of prior work experience in the following:
  1. Building large scale cloud service in private or managed cloud providers.
  2. Selection of data stores and analysis of tradeoffs.
  3. In-memory caching layers to accelerate application performance.
  4. Monitoring quality of deploys and troubleshooting of production systems.
  5. End-to-end architecture of the web, from end user device to a service in a datacenter.

Up to one day per week telecommuting may be permitted.

For California Only - The annual salary for this position is $442,000 - $527,000.

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.
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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.

Accommodations

Roku welcomes applicants of all backgrounds and provides reasonable accommodations and adjustments in accordance with applicable law. If you require reasonable accommodation at any point in the hiring process, please direct your inquiries to [redacted].

About Roku

Roku is an American consumer electronics company founded in 2002. The company is best known for its streaming devices that allow users to access internet-based video content on their televisions. Roku's devices are available in several models and are sold in the United States and other countries. The company also offers a streaming service called The Roku Channel that features a selection of movies and TV shows. Roku went public in 2017 and is traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
Learn more about Roku
Size
3,000 employees
Market Cap
$5.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$17.5 million
Founded
2002
5 Year Trend
+47.3%
Revenue
$1.7 billion
NASDAQ

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