Senior Software Engineer, Ad Serving

About the role

Roku is a public company that pioneers TV streaming and is expanding its advertising business. The Ad Engineering Team builds a real-time, scalable, and available advertising platform to support and grow Roku's ad business.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside a highly skilled engineering team to design, develop, and maintain large-scale, highly performing, real-time applications
• Own building features, driving directly with the product, and other engineering teams
• Deliver top-quality software in a timely fashion
• Be an evangelist for best practices across all functions – developers, QA, and infrastructure/ops
• Be an evangelist for platform innovation and reuse

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience building large-scale and low-latency distributed systems
• Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, performance optimization techniques, object-oriented programming, multi-threading, and real-time programming
• Experience with distributed caching, SQL/NoSQL, and other databases
• Experience with Big Data and cloud services such as AWS/GCP
• Experience in the advertising domain

Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
• Self-motivated individual with a high level of accountability and ownership
• Critical thinking and practical decision-making
• Can do, results-oriented mindset
• Nonpolitical, collaborative, and team-oriented
• Desire to win in a highly competitive industry
• AI literacy and curiosity

Skills

• Java or C++ proficiency
• Experience with distributed systems
• Experience with Big Data and cloud services
• Experience in the advertising domain

Benefits

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