Roku · 4 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer, DevOps - Data Platform
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$186K/yr - $340K/yr
8+ years expRoku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, aiming to power every television in the world. The role involves automating and scaling Big Data and Analytics technology stacks on Cloud infrastructure, building CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring the monitoring and maintenance of production infrastructure.
AdvertisingAdvertising PlatformsConsumer ElectronicsDigital EntertainmentDigital MediaHardwareMedia and EntertainmentSoftwareVideo Streaming
Hiring Manager
Shelby Ruff
Responsibilities
Develop best practices around cloud infrastructure provisioning, disaster recovery, and guiding developers on the adoption
Scale Big Data and distributed systems
Collaborate on system architecture with developers for optimal scaling, resource utilization, fault tolerance, reliability, and availability
Conduct low-level systems debugging, performance measurement & optimization on large production clusters and low-latency services
Create scripts and automation that can react quickly to infrastructure issues and take corrective actions
Participate in architecture discussions, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects
Collaborate and communicate with a geographically distributed team
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
8+ years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering
Experience with Cloud infrastructure such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, or other Public Cloud platforms. GCP is preferred
Experience with at least 3 of the technologies/tools mentioned here: Big Data / Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Presto, Druid, Opensearch, HA Proxy, or Hive
Experience with Kubernetes and Docker
Experience with Terraform
Strong background in Linux/Unix
Experience with system engineering around edge cases, failure modes, and disaster recovery
Experience with shell scripting, or equivalent programming skills in Python
Experience working with monitoring and alerting tools such as Grafana or PagerDuty, and being part of call rotations
Experience with Chef, Puppet, or Ansible
Experience with Networking, Network Security, and Data Security
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
Benefits
Health insurance
Equity awards
Life insurance
Disability benefits
Parental leave
Wellness benefits
Paid time off
Global access to mental health and financial wellness support and resources
Statutory and voluntary benefits which may include healthcare (medical, dental, and vision), life, accident, disability, commuter, and retirement options (401(k)/pension)
Company
Roku
Roku develops video streaming devices that provide users access to Internet-streamed video or audio services.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (120)
2024 (166)
2023 (81)
2022 (279)
2021 (195)
2020 (107)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$212.01MKey Investors
News CorpFidelityGlobespan Capital Partners
2017-09-28IPO
2015-11-09Series H· $45.5M
2015-11-01Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Preston Smalley
VP of Viewer Product
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Thomas Dodson
Vice President of Platform Operations
Recent News
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