Roku · 11 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer, Subscriptions Platform
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$186K/yr - $388K/yr
10+ years expRoku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, aiming to power every television in the world. In this role, you will lead the architecture and implementation of a subscriptions platform that scales to billions of viewers, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver resilient services.
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Responsibilities
Lead the evaluation and implementation of new technologies and designs. Evaluate emerging technologies and seek innovative solutions to address existing and new challenges
Engage in architectural discussions across multiple teams, influence the roadmap, and take ownership of key projects and initiatives
Providing technical leadership and expertise to drive platform capabilities to ensure high availability and scalability
Demonstrate engineering excellence practice by setting expectations and leading by hands-on examples
Own building platform features, driving directly with product and other engineering teams
Own design and implementation of shared architectural layers (e.g., queuing, event systems, shared memory clusters) and libraries that can be used across teams
Review technical specification documents, provide feedback, and collaborate for best in class solution
Be an evangelist for best practices across all functions – developers, QA, and infrastructure/ops
Be an evangelist for platform innovation and reuse
Be actively involved in code/design reviews and expected to code 80% of the time
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in architecting, implementing, and running large-scale services, specifically in subscriptions, purchase, and billing domains
Experience building systems of various workloads - streaming, API, notifications, batch, etc
Expertise in various subscription flows, including tax, payment, purchase, renewal, dunning, cancellation, repurchase, and invoicing
Strong architectural design experience, great track record of building a highly available and scalable subscription platform
Strong expertise with cloud solutions/systems across cloud with AWS or GCP is a must
Strong experience in designing and leading the implementation of highly complex transactional systems, collaborating with teams across the organization
Strong passion for technology and adding value to the bottom line through technology
Strong passion & expertise with automation, including building and adopting CI/CD pipelines
Experience integrating with various streaming and subscription platforms like Amazon, Apple, Google, and Samsung is a plus
Preferred
Experience with multi-cloud solutions is a plus, and the ability to offer technical guidance to design, deploy, and scale applications across multiple cloud environments
Benefits
Health insurance
Equity awards
Life insurance
Disability benefits
Parental leave
Wellness benefits
Paid time off
Healthcare (medical, dental, and vision)
Life
Accident
Disability
Commuter
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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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$220.61MKey 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
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