Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Job Summary

Roku pioneered TV streaming and continues to innovate and lead the industry. The Roku Channel has us well-positioned to help shape the future of streaming, and continued success relies on investing in the Roku Cloud TV Platform to deliver a high-quality streaming TV experience at a global scale. You will be part of the Roku Content Management System and Tools Engineering team, playing a key role in developing the next-generation content management systems that drive content ingestion, selection, management, and curation workflows. These systems are vital for empowering critical functions like Search and Recommendation on the Roku Platform, and your projects will have a direct impact on millions of Roku users globally. Throughout, you'll collaborate with key stakeholders across various Roku engineering teams and take the lead in designing our content management system. This is an excellent role for a senior professional who thrives on having a critical business impact, is able to make key decisions, and is excited to work on a core content pipeline component which is crucial for many streaming components at Roku.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement highly scalable and reliable web-scale applications, tools, and automation frameworks that power the Roku Content Management System
• Work closely with the product management team, content management services, and other internal product engineering teams to contribute towards evolving the Roku Content Management Systems and Tools
• Design and build data pipelines for batch, near-real-time, and real-time processing
• Translate functional specifications into logical, component-based technical designs
• Write and review code, and evaluate architectural tradeoffs for performance and security in high-performance systems
• Participate in architecture discussions, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables with limited supervision

Requirements

• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities
• 5+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer
• Proficiency in Java, Scala, or Python
• Strong technical competency and experience in building high-performance, cloud-based, scalable microservices
• Experience with microservice and event-driven architectures
• Experience with design and implementation of modern microservices architectures and API frameworks (REST/JSON)
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS (preferred), GCP, or similar
• Experience with NoSQL data storage technologies such as Cassandra, DynamoDB, or Redis, as well as RDBMS like Oracle or MySQL
• Ability to handle periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science plus 5 years of experience or equivalent; Masters degree preferred
• AI literacy and curiosity - you have either used generative AI in your previous work or outside of work, or are curious about generative AI and have explored it