Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

Roku is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help power our content browse and discovery experiences on and off-platform.

Responsibilities

• Develop software that powers Roku's content browse and discovery experiences on and off-platform.
• Build services at scale, managing the full software lifecycle from development to deployment in production, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Design and code services that offer low latencies for users and 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.
• Manage in-memory caching layers such as Redis, Redis Cluster, and Memcached.
• Monitor quality of deployments and troubleshoot production systems.
• Understand the end-to-end architecture of the web, from end-user device to a service in a datacenter.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 5 years of progressive experience in the position or a related occupation.
• At least 1 year of prior work experience in:

* Building large-scale cloud services in private or managed cloud providers.
* Selection of data stores and analysis of tradeoffs.
* In-memory caching layers to accelerate application performance.
* Monitoring quality of deploys and troubleshooting production systems.
* End-to-end architecture of the web, from end-user device to a service in a datacenter.

Work Arrangement

Roku operates in a hybrid model where teams generally work in the office Monday through Thursday, with Fridays generally flexible for remote work (up to one day per week telecommuting permitted).