Engineering Manager, Ad Serving

About the role

A highly scalable, highly available, real-time advertising platform is critical to supporting and growing Roku’s rapidly expanding ad business. The mission of the Ad Engineering team is to build this platform. The Ad Serving team designs, builds, deploys, and operates Roku’s Supply-Side, Ad Mediation, and Demand-Side platforms, which sit at the core of Roku’s ad monetization and are critical to the business.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive a multi-year technical strategy, influencing architecture across multiple teams
• Set the long-term technical vision and take end-to-end ownership of the scalability, stability, and performance of Roku’s ad serving mediation platforms - systems operating at massive scale with significant revenue impact
• Shape product direction by deeply understanding Roku’s advertising business, marketplace dynamics, and long-term monetization strategy
• Lead and grow high-performing engineering teams to execute ambitious product and technical roadmaps
• Hire, grow, and retain top talent, fostering a healthy environment where individuals can do their best work
• Lead initiatives to significantly improve developer productivity by streamlining development workflows, modernizing tooling, and reducing operational load

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience architecting and building large distributed systems, with a proven track record of leading complex systems in dynamic, high-growth environments
• Track record of building and leading high-performing senior and staff+ engineering teams
• Perform as a staff+ technologist on complex, low-latency, revenue-critical, large-scale distributed backend systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication and collaboration skills
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams and initiatives
• Experience fostering AI-first thinking within engineering teams to drive innovation
• Expertise in advertising is a plus
• 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

Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale distributed systems
• Strong understanding of advertising and ad tech
• Ability to lead and mentor a team
• Experience with cloud technologies and infrastructure
• Experience with data analytics and machine learning

Skills

• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Experience with agile methodologies
• Knowledge of advertising and ad tech
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with cloud technologies and infrastructure
• Experience with data analytics and machine learning

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Equity awards
• Life insurance
• Disability benefits
• Parental leave
• Wellness benefits
• Paid time off

Pay

The estimated annual salary for this position is between $360,000 and $440,000 annually. Compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, certifications, and specific geographical location.

Schedule

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.