About The Role 

With millions of users worldwide, our products have earned a reputation for "just working" seamlessly right out of the box, almost like magic. This seamless experience is no accident; it's a testament to our commitment to creating products that are not just intuitive but downright obvious. At the heart of this commitment is the Roku OS QA Team, dedicated to rigorously testing every product and feature to ensure we deliver the most reliable streaming media platform in the industry.

Our mission is simple: help people effortlessly find and stream the content they love. We achieve this through cutting-edge technology and engineering, always putting the customer at the center of everything we do.

About the Team

As part of our team, you'll leverage your diverse skills to support both Software Engineers and QA Engineers, tackling the daily challenges of their roles. Your specialist knowledge, combined with the use of AI technologies, will be invaluable in suggesting improvements to enhance quality and streamline workflows, ensuring we continue to exceed our customers' expectations.

What you'll be doing

• Contribute to tools and technology
• Design, develop, and maintain AI-driven automation systems
• Collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, and product teams to understand and deliver AI-based solutions.
• Build new tools and technology
• Debug failing tests to improve the quality of automated test tools and frameworks
• Conduct code reviews for improve code quality and optimization
• Promote coding conventions and standards for code re-usability and cleanliness
• Assist in monitoring and maintenance of critical systems

We're excited if you have

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with automation systems
• 3+ years of Python programming experience
• 2+ years of experience developing test plans and test cases
• Ability to write simple Python scripts to preprocess data or interact with ML APIs.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience working with remote teams
• Some knowledge of continuous integration tools (Jenkins/Hudson, TeamCity, Maven, Gradle)
• Hands on experience and proficiency in Linux/Unix systems
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly
• A self-directed professional able to work independently
• Previous experience with Non-Functional Testing (Performance Testing, Stress Testing)

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About the Team 

Enterprise Engineering builds integrated, scalable platforms that power Roku’s core Finance, Accounting, Payments, Supply Chain, and HR processes. We use API-first, data-driven, and increasingly AI-enabled designs to automate complex workflows, improve control and compliance, and reduce manual work for our partners.

About the Role 

We’re hiring a Senior Product Manager to lead finance and payouts platforms within Enterprise Engineering, with a strong focus on AI-driven automation. You will own products that support order-to-cash, revenue accounting, financial close, reconciliations, and partner payouts, working across Controllership, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Payments, Ads Revenue Operations, and Business Systems. 

You’ll define the vision, roadmap, and execution for capabilities that combine robust finance controls with modern engineering and AI - e.g., ML-assisted reconciliations, anomaly detection, intelligent exception routing, and Gen-AI powered tools for finance users. This is a high-impact senior IC role; you will regularly influence senior stakeholders across regions, while partnering closely with engineering leads and architects.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Own strategy & roadmap for finance and payouts platforms, including AI-enabled capabilities (classification, matching, forecasting, GenAI assistants) 
• Deep-dive workflows across revenue, close, reconciliations, payouts and compliance; map pain points and define automation opportunities 
• Write clear, structured product requirements (data contracts, controls, SLAs, UX) that Engineering and Finance can execute on 
• Partner daily with engineering and architecture to make pragmatic design tradeoffs on platforms, integrations, and AI usage 
• Define and track success metrics (automation %, cycle time, error rates, payout and reconciliation accuracy), and iterate based on results 
• Drive change management: clear comms, training, and adoption plans for new platform and AI features 
• Keep a close pulse on team and stakeholder “vibe” – building trust, surfacing risks early, and fostering a low-ego, high-ownership way of working 

We’re Excited If You Have

• 8+ years of product management, including substantial time on internal platforms or business systems 
• Strong experience in Finance/Accounting technology (e.g., ERP, revenue systems, sub-ledger / journal automation, reconciliations, payouts) 
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex accounting and regulatory requirements into scalable product designs 
• Hands-on experience with AI / ML or intelligent automation in business processes (e.g., matching, anomaly detection, NLP/GenAI assistants, rules + ML hybrids) 
• Strong systems thinking: comfortable with APIs, data models, integrations, monitoring and controls 
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to tell a crisp story to executives, Finance stakeholders, and engineers 
• Proven track record working effectively across time zones and cultures, maintaining a healthy and productive team “vibe” 
• Experience in media, advertising, or digital platforms with complex revenue and payout models 
• Background in Finance/Accounting (e.g., CPA, Chartered Accountant, or MBA with finance emphasis)

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About the team

With so many people using Roku’s products globally, we’ve become well-known for products that “just work” right out of the box and integrate almost by magic.  That doesn’t happen by accident, which is why we are committed to making sure our products aren’t just intuitive; they’re obvious.  To support that commitment, the Roku’s Automation support and Tools team focuses on providing innovative and impactful tools that improve efficiency, enhance productivity of all engineering to test Roku products, from industry’s most reliable streaming media platform to smart home products that seamlessly integrate with Roku entertainment OS for a great connected home user experience. We accomplish this using state of the art technology and engineering to make it happen, with consideration for the customer as the centre of all that we do.

Roku’s embedded software automation and tools team has an excellent opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer with strong experience in building automation framework and tools for embedded devices. The role involves developing and maintaining software and tools that help various internal teams to test and manage Roku’s products. Working closely with internal stakeholders to enhance existing automation toolset with new capabilities and advanced features that empower all engineering and accelerate validation efforts for SW releases. 

About the role

You will work cross-functionally with various engineering teams, using your automation tooling expertise to help both firmware developers and QA to create and deliver the highest quality products that provide valuable end-user feedback to improve customer experience. This position requires Python expertise with strong experience using web frameworks, excellent debugging, written, and organizational skills. You will be joining a talented, high-performance team of developers with a history of delivery. We are looking for someone who can help us maintain this pace and continue delivering high quality as we grow. 

We are looking for a keen problem solver and a self-motivated individual with excellent communication and collaborative skills who is eager to learn and grow in the consumer electronics space. As an engineer on the team, you will require the skills and confidence to undertake the challenges of working in a fast-paced environment, frequently be taken out of your comfort zone, and relish getting your hands dirty working with user-facing products. 

What you will be doing:

• Develop and release new E2E automation support and tools 
• Debug issues to improve the quality of automated test tools and frameworks 
• Conduct code reviews to improve code quality and optimization 
• Promote coding conventions and standards for code re-usability and cleanliness 
• Document feature guides, identify and formulate user requirements, and define product behavior 
• Support and maintain existing automation tools and technology 
• Mentor less experienced engineers and drive automation development 
• Assist in monitoring and maintenance of critical systems 
• Champion the adoption of AI tools and technologies to enhance automation capabilities and team productivity. 
• Review and provide technical feedback on design documents and high-level architecture diagrams across multiple tools and teams, with a focus on evaluating design trade-offs, scalability, maintainability, and alignment with overall system architecture. 

We're excited if you have:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience with automation systems 
• 10+ years of programming experience, preferably with Python 
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field 
• Proficient in Linux, Python-based test automation frameworks, and tools using REST APIs 
• Hands-on experience in development/integration of E2E test automation frameworks and tools for embedded software devices 
• Proficient use of AI tools and technologies with a proven track record as a promoter and advocate for AI adoption in software development and testing automation. 
• Agentic workflow familiarity: Working knowledge of multi-step AI orchestration frameworks and the practical use of AI agents to support and streamline day-to-day development workflows. 
• Experienced in developing and maintaining web-based tools using JavaScript and React/Next.js 
• Experience with DevOps and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Docker, and Kubernetes) 
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline development and deployment via AWS or GCP cloud technologies 
• Experience with unit testing frameworks – pytest/pyunit and Cypress for UI testing 
• Experience developing web applications using Flask, FastAPI, Django, and Nginx 
• Knowledge in using AI for increasing test automation coverage and productivity 
• Experience with retail Consumer Electronic (CE) devices, ideally in the Over The Top (OTT) streaming domain 
• Expert problem-solving and technical troubleshooting skills 
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly 
• A self-directed professional able to work independently 
• Ability to work through ambiguous requirements and be flexible/adaptable to change 
• Comfortable and experienced working with cross-functional peers and internal stakeholders across European and US time zones 
• Excellent communication and collaborative skills 

Additional nice to have skills: 

• Previous experience with Non-Functional Testing (Performance Testing, Stress Testing) 
• Knowledge of network technologies and libraries such as TCP/IP and HTTP 
• Experience with database technologies (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis) for test data management 
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK stack, Datadog) 
• Knowledge of streaming protocols and technologies (HLS, DASH, RTMP, WebRTC) 
• Experience with API testing tools (Postman, REST Assured, GraphQL) 
• Understanding of security testing principles and tools (OWASP, penetration testing) 
• Experience with mobile testing frameworks and cross-platform testing 
• Familiarity with test reporting and analytics platforms (Allure, TestRail, ReportPortal) 
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation) 
• Knowledge of machine learning concepts for test optimization and predictive analysis 
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and project management tools (Jira, Confluence) 
• Basic understanding of hardware debugging tools and techniques for embedded systems 

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About the Team

The International TV Software team at Roku develops and delivers software for television platforms across international markets, with a focus on Europe and Australia. The team works closely with SOC partners to bring new TV products to market, develops software to meet regional broadcast standards, and supports certification with organizations such as ETV, the BBC, and DTG. The team operates across both new platform development and common software development projects, contributing to greenfield features as well as the ongoing evolution of Roku’s international TV software ecosystem. It is a collaborative, cross-functional team that values engineers who are curious, adaptable, and motivated to understand the full breadth of the systems they work on.

About the Role

As a Software Engineer on the Regional TV Software team, you will contribute to the development and delivery of software for regional TV platforms, working on both new TV platform projects and new software development projects. You will collaborate with SOC vendors, support certification processes with UK and European broadcast organizations, and help define and build new software features. This is a great opportunity for an engineer early in their career who is curious, collaborative, and motivated to grow across multiple areas of a complex software system.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Developing and maintaining software for regional TV platforms, with a focus on markets in Europe and Australia
• Collaborating with SOC vendors to support new TV projects and resolving Roku-specific technical issues
• Supporting certification processes with organisations such as ETV, the BBC, and DTG
• Contributing to new software projects, including requirements definition, software design, and implementation
• Developing primarily in C++, with contributions in C, Python and Javascript as-needed
• Porting and adapting software to meet regional standards and specifications, including HbbTV
• Troubleshooting technical issues across the software stack and working cross-functionally to resolve them
• Participating in greenfield feature development as part of new TV platform launches

We’re Excited If You Have

• 6+ years Experience with C and/or C++ in a commercial environment
• Familiarity with Python
• An interest in or exposure to embedded systems or low-level software development
• A systems-level mindset — curiosity about how different parts of a system interact and a desire to learn broadly
• Exposure to Linux environments (a plus, but not required)
• Familiarity with HTML or browser-based development (a plus, but not required)
• 6+ years of commercial software engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through projects, internships, or academic work
• Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative approach to working through technical challenges

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About the team

With so many people using Roku’s products globally, we’ve become well-known for products that “just work” right out of the box and integrate almost by magic. That doesn’t happen by accident, which is why we are committed to making sure our products aren’t just intuitive, they’re obvious.  To support that commitment, the Roku’s Automation support and Tools team focuses on providing innovative and impactful tools that improve efficiency, enhance productivity of all engineering to test Roku products, from industry’s most reliable streaming media platform to smart home products that seamlessly integrate with Roku entertainment OS for a great connected home user experience. We accomplish this using state of the art technology and engineering to make it happen, with consideration for the customer as the centre of all that we do.

About the role

The Roku’s software automation and tools team has an excellent opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer with strong experience in building automation framework and tools for SW embedded devices. The role involves developing and maintaining software and tools that help various internal teams to test and manage Roku’s products. Working closely with internal stakeholders to enhance existing automation toolset with new capabilities and advanced features that empower all engineering and accelerate validation efforts for SW releases.

You will work cross-functionally with various engineering teams, using your finest automation expertise to help both FW developers and QA to create and deliver highest quality product that help in provide valuable end-user feedback to improve customer’s experience.  This position requires python expertise with strong experience of using web frameworks, excellent debugging, written and organizational skills. You will be joining a talented, high-performance team of developers with a history of delivery.  We are looking for someone who can help us keep up this pace and continue delivering high quality as we grow.

We are looking for a keen problem solver and a self-motivated individual with excellent communication and collaborative skills who is eager to learn and grow in consumer electronics space. As an engineer on the team you will require skills and confidence to undertake the challenges of working in a fast-paced environment, frequently be taken out of your comfort zone and relish getting your hands dirty working with user facing products

What you'll be doing

• Support and maintain existing automation tools and technology
• Develop and release new E2E automation support and tools
• Debug issues to improve the quality of automated test tools and frameworks
• Conduct code reviews to improve code quality and optimization
• Promote coding conventions and standards for code re-usability and cleanliness
• Document Feature guides, identify and formulate user requirements, product behavior
• Mentor less experienced engineers and driving automation development
• Assist in monitoring and maintenance of critical systems

We're excited if you have

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with automation systems
• 5+ years of programming experience, preferably with Python
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related
• Proficient in linux, Python based test automation frameworks and tools using REST APIs
• Hands on experience in development/integration of E2E test automation framework and tools for embedded software devices
• Experienced in developing and maintaining web based tools using Javascript, React
• Proficiency with DevOps, continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Gitlab CI, Teamcity, Docker and Kubernetes)
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline development and deployment via AWS or GCP cloud technologies
• Experience with Unit Testing frameworks – pytest/pyunit and cypress, playwright for UI testing
• Experience of developing web applications using Flask, FastAPI, Django, Nginx
• Experience and knowledge of using generative AI
• Expert problem-solving and technical troubleshooting skills
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly
• A self-directed professional able to work independently
• Ability to work through ambiguous requirements and being flexible/adaptable to change
• Comfortable and experienced working with cross-functional peers and internal stakeholders across European and US timezones
• Excellent communication and collaborative skills
• Experience with retail Consumer Electronic (CE) devices, ideally in the Over The Top (OTT) streaming domain
• Previous experience with Non-Functional Testing (Performance Testing, Stress Testing)
• Knowledge of network technologies and libraries such as TCP/IP and HTTP
• Previous experience and knowledge of image processing and inferencing, creating computer vision capabilities for visual testing

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About the Team 

The DMP team plays a critical role in Roku’s Advertising organization, leading initiatives around audience management that power decision-making across the advertising ecosystem. We develop and manage products that enable advanced segmentation and audience management for advertisers while meeting the operational needs of internal teams. 

We work closely with Product Managers, Machine Learning, Ad Sales, Ads Operations, and multiple groups within Advertising Engineering to deliver high-impact solutions.  

Looking ahead, we are exploring AI-driven capabilities to further enhance the effectiveness of advertising campaigns and improve operational efficiency of our platforms. 

About the Role 

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with deep expertise in big data technologies, including Apache Spark and Apache Airflow. This hybrid position bridges software engineering and data engineering, requiring the ability to design, build, and maintain scalable systems for both application development and large-scale data processing. 

In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect and manage robust, production-grade data products and APIs that power critical capabilities across the advertising platform. You will work with technologies such as Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, ScyllaDB/Cassandra, Aerospike, Kubernetes, and SpringBoot to deliver reliable, high-performance solutions. 

The ideal candidate is a proactive, self-motivated professional with a strong track record in building high-scale data services and a dedication to delivering exceptional results. 

What You’ll Be Doing 

Software Development 

• Design and build APIs and backend services using Spring Boot to support data products and audience management workflows. 

• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, ensuring adherence to best practices through code reviews. 

Big Data Engineering 

• Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines and ETL workflows using Apache Spark and Apache Airflow. 

• Optimize data storage, retrieval, and processing systems to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance. 

• Develop and fine-tune complex queries using Apache Spark for large-scale datasets. 

• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve data systems to minimize downtime and maximize efficiency. 

API and Platform Development

• Design, Development, and maintain large scale, low latency API systems using SpringBoot and Kubernetes

• Maintain NoSQL Infrastructure including ScyllaDB and Aerospike

Collaboration & Mentorship 

• Partner with the machine learning team, software engineers, and other teams to deliver integrated, high-quality solutions. 

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, promoting best practices in software and data engineering. 

We’re Excited If You Have 

• 8+ years of experience in software and/or data engineering with expertise in big data technologies such as Apache Spark, Apache Airflow. 

• Expertise with at least one of the following ScyllaDB and Aerospike (preferred). 

• Strong understanding of SOLID principles and distributed systems architecture. 

• Proven experience in distributed data processing, data warehousing, and real-time data pipelines. 

• Advanced SQL skills, with expertise in query optimization for large datasets. 

• Exceptional problem-solving abilities and the capacity to work independently or collaboratively. 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes. (preferred) 

• Experience in AdTech, in advertising data platforms and audience management. (preferred)

• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, and/or Scala. (preferred) 

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Jenkins & Terraform). (preferred) 

• Expertise in data modeling, schema design, and data visualization tools. Experience with building Agentic AI systems to automate decision-making and enhance analytics workflows. (preferred) 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience). 

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About the Team 

The Ads Analytics team plays a critical role in Roku’s Advertising organization, leading measurement and analytics initiatives that power decision-making across the advertising ecosystem. We develop and manage products that deliver actionable insights for advertisers while meeting the operational and analytical needs of internal business teams. 

We work closely with Product Managers, Ad Sales, Ad Operations, Data Science, and multiple other software teams within the Advertising Engineering organization to deliver high-impact solutions.  

Looking ahead, we are exploring AI-driven measurement capabilities to further enhance the effectiveness of advertising campaigns and strengthen internal analytics. 

About the Role 

We are seeking a high skilled Senior Software Engineer with deep expertise in API Development using Spring Boot while also possessing knowledge of Apache Spark-based Big Data pipelines using Airflow. This hybrid position bridges software engineering and data engineering, requiring the ability to design, build, and maintain scalable systems for both application development and large-scale data processing. 

You will communicate and collaborate heavily with both business and engineering to ensure high quality standards and overall project delivery success. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect and manage robust, production-grade data products that power critical analytics and measurement capabilities. You will work with technologies such as Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, Trino, Druid, Spring Boot, StarRocks, and Looker to deliver reliable, high-performance solutions. 

The ideal candidate is a proactive, self-motivated professional with a strong track record in building applications and services with a dedication to delivering exceptional results. 

What You’ll Be Doing 

Software Development 

• Design and build APIs and backend services using Spring Boot to support data products and analytics workflows. 

• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code and tests, ensuring adherence to best practices through code reviews. 

Big Data Engineering 

• Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines and ETL workflows using Apache Spark and Apache Airflow. 

• Optimize data storage, retrieval, and processing systems to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance. 

• Develop and fine-tune complex queries and analytics solutions using Druid, Trino, and StarRocks for large-scale datasets. 

• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve data systems to minimize downtime and maximize efficiency. 

Collaboration & Mentorship 

• Partner with data scientists, software engineers, and other teams to deliver integrated, high-quality solutions. 

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, promoting best practices in software and data engineering. 

We’re Excited If You Have 

• 8+ years of experience in software and/or data engineering with expertise in big data technologies such as Apache Spark, Apache Airflow. 

• Expertise with at least one of the following: Apache Druid, StarRocks, and Trino. 

• Strong understanding of SOLID principles and distributed systems architecture. 

• Proven experience in distributed data processing, data warehousing, and real-time data pipelines. 

• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, or Scala.

• Advanced SQL skills, with expertise in query optimization for large datasets. 

• Expertise in data modeling, schema design, and data visualization tools.

• Experience building highly scalable, low-latency, APIs.

• Exceptional problem-solving abilities and the capacity to work both independently and collaboratively as needed. 

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. 

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes. (preferred) 

• Experience in AdTech, in advertising data platforms and campaign measurement. (preferred)

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform). (preferred) 

• Experience with building Agentic AI systems to automate decision-making and enhance analytics workflows. (preferred)  

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience). 

About the team

The Advertising Performance group focuses on performance for all participants in the Advertising ecosystem - Advertisers, Publishers and Roku. The systems and solutions span across different disciplines and technologies to perform realtime multi-objective optimization with distributed systems at large scale and low latencies. We use Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, AI, Control and Optimization Systems and Auction Dynamics to solve a large set of complex problems. At the core of this is our Machine Learning, Experimentation and Inference Platform that powers the entire landscape which we continuously evolve over time.

About the role 

In this role you will build teams focused on the Ads Auction and Marketplace to optimize yield, gross profit, perform realtime multi-objective optimization across various short and long term objectives, build control and simulation systems, design and run experiments and extend the experimentation framework. 

You will partner closely with other Engineering, Inventory and Product teams to define the vision and strategy for your group and to build and deliver the roadmap.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of real-time ads auction systems powering Roku’s CTV advertising across The Roku Channel and the Roku platform.
• Own and enhance core auction capabilities including ad pod construction, bid evaluation, ranking, pricing, pacing, budget enforcement, and frequency capping.
• Build low-latency, highly reliable distributed services that operate at massive scale, serving billions of ad opportunities with strict latency and uptime requirements.
• Design auction logic that balances viewer experience (ad load, relevance, repetition) with advertiser performance, publisher yield, and platform revenue.
• Develop and optimize SSP-side auction mechanisms, integrating with multiple DSPs, programmatic demand sources, and direct-sold campaigns.
• Partner closely with product managers, data science, ads research teams to translate marketplace and monetization goals into scalable technical solutions.
• Drive yield optimization through auction design, demand shaping, floor strategies, and pricing experiments.
• Lead experimentation using A/B testing, auction simulations, and offline replay frameworks, and make data-driven decisions based on performance metrics and statistical rigor.
• Ensure auction correctness, fairness, explainability, and transparency, while maintaining compliance with privacy, regulatory, and brand-safety requirements.
• Influence the long-term technical roadmap for Roku Ads by proposing architecture improvements, scalability strategies, and performance optimizations.

We are excited if you have

• 5+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems
• 5+ years working with cloud-based platforms and infrastructure
• Deep experience in building microservices using Java for container platforms such as Docker or Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of databases SQL and NoSQL
• Hands-on Experience working with AWS, GCP or similar cloud services
• Experience with a breadth of protocols and data formats such as REST, WebSockets, HTTPS, JSON, and Protobuf
• Demonstrated ability to drive timely consensus in design with other senior team members
• Bachelors or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

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About the team

The Advertising Performance group focuses on performance for all participants in the Advertising ecosystem - Advertisers, Publishers and Roku. The systems and solutions span across different disciplines and technologies to perform realtime multi-objective optimization with distributed systems at large scale and low latencies. We use Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, AI, Control and Optimization Systems and Auction Dynamics to solve a large set of complex problems. At the core of this is our Machine Learning, Experimentation and Inference Platform that powers the entire landscape which we continuously evolve over time.

About the role 

In this role you will build teams focused on the Ads Auction and Marketplace to optimize yield, gross profit, perform realtime multi-objective optimization across various short and long term objectives, build control and simulation systems, design and run experiments and extend the experimentation framework. 

You will partner closely with other Engineering, Inventory and Product teams to define the vision and strategy for your group and to build and deliver the roadmap.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of real-time ads auction systems powering Roku’s CTV advertising across The Roku Channel and the Roku platform.
• Own and enhance core auction capabilities including ad pod construction, bid evaluation, ranking, pricing, pacing, budget enforcement, and frequency capping.
• Build low-latency, highly reliable distributed services that operate at massive scale, serving billions of ad opportunities with strict latency and uptime requirements.
• Design auction logic that balances viewer experience (ad load, relevance, repetition) with advertiser performance, publisher yield, and platform revenue.
• Develop and optimize SSP-side auction mechanisms, integrating with multiple DSPs, programmatic demand sources, and direct-sold campaigns.
• Partner closely with product managers, data science, ads research teams to translate marketplace and monetization goals into scalable technical solutions.
• Drive yield optimization through auction design, demand shaping, floor strategies, and pricing experiments.
• Lead experimentation using A/B testing, auction simulations, and offline replay frameworks, and make data-driven decisions based on performance metrics and statistical rigor.
• Ensure auction correctness, fairness, explainability, and transparency, while maintaining compliance with privacy, regulatory, and brand-safety requirements.
• Influence the long-term technical roadmap for Roku Ads by proposing architecture improvements, scalability strategies, and performance optimizations.

We are excited if you have

• 5+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems
• 5+ years working with cloud-based platforms and infrastructure
• Deep experience in building microservices using Java for container platforms such as Docker or Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of databases SQL and NoSQL
• Hands-on Experience working with AWS, GCP or similar cloud services
• Experience with a breadth of protocols and data formats such as REST, WebSockets, HTTPS, JSON, and Protobuf
• Demonstrated ability to drive timely consensus in design with other senior team members
• Bachelors or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

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About the team

This team spends most of its time working on customer focused features that improve the user experience, from content discovery and search to Roku pay and subscription to embedded software and firmware, and much more. Our product roadmap helps us accelerate our growth and scale, putting surprising new features into the hands of tens of millions of Roku users worldwide.
Our developers and engineers are owners. They are motivated from within, finding and taking on a feature or project simply because that problem needs to be solved and shipped. But that individual must work together with different engineering teams, UI design, product teams, and business leadership to make things happen, which means that engineers succeed here because they can maintain that independent spirit and motivation within a deeply collaborative environment. We are the pragmatic dreamers inventing and re-inventing the world of streaming media.

About the role

Roku pioneered streaming to the TV and continues to innovate and lead the industry. While we are well-positioned to help shape the future of television and streaming media worldwide, continued success stems from experienced software engineers like you developing core features for the Roku platform.
Our new Senior Software Engineer, Embedded will be contributing extensively to our embedded UI development, algorithm implementation for complex features to make it more user intuitive and underlying architecture. You will be working closely with product management to understand new features or extending current features for international market needs, development using modern C++ libraries/frameworks, scripting language and integration of third-party code. You will also be engaged in developing tools which can help larger development community within Roku. A proven track record of shipping high-quality software on embedded platforms is essential. This is a great role for a senior professional who enjoys a high level of visibility and thrives on great business impact.
The features and performance improvements you implement directly impact millions of users every day. This is a great role for an experienced professional who has innovative ideas for complex problems and can translate these ideas into ultra-reliable software.

What you’ll be doing

• Creating C++ and Embedded Linux and Native Applications
• Developing UI applications using popular frameworks such as JavaScript, BrightScript and similar languages
• Working closely with Cross Functional teams to contribute to our application development
• Developing core features for the Roku OS Application framework
• Investigating, diagnosing and resolving issues
• Writing functional and integration tests
• Designing and shipping high-quality software on the Roku embedded platform

We’re excited if you have

• Extensive experience with C or C++ and Embedded Linux or Native Application Development
• In-depth understanding of Linux, tools, libraries, and open source development
• Experience developing UI applications using popular frameworks such as ReactJS
• Experience with Python, JavaScript, BrightScript, or similar languages
• Proven track record of designing and shipping high-quality software on an embedded platform
• Experience with OpenGL, DirectX, or any other graphics APIs
• Experience writing functional and integration tests
• Good understanding of Core OS concepts like memory management and multi-threading
• A good understanding of API design, considerations and trade-offs
• Consumer electronics experience building Media/Content and/or Ad product
• Strong verbal and written communication skills (this role involves frequent communication with teams throughout Roku)
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or related fields

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About The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, Android on the Roku Mobile App team, you will help shape the future of how millions of users interact with their Roku Streaming Devices. You’ll work on building intuitive, reliable, and highly performant Android experiences that allow customers to monitor and control Roku streaming devices from TVs to Players and beyond.

This role offers the opportunity to work across a modern, evolving tech stack including Kotlin, Compose, and Googles’s latest frameworks. You’ll collaborate closely with design, product, and cross-functional engineering teams to bring innovative features to life, improve performance, and make every day smart home interactions seamless.

You should be motivated by curiosity and initiative, eager to take ownership of features and run with them, while remaining grounded in a team-first, collaborative mindset.

About The Team

You will be joining a talented, high-performance team with a history of delivery. We are looking for someone who can help us keep up this pace and continue delivering high-quality app as we grow.

With so many people using our products globally, we’ve become well-known for products that “just work” right out of the box and integrate almost by magic. That doesn’t happen by accident, which is why we are committed to making sure our products aren’t just intuitive, they’re obvious

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design and build advanced applications and features for the Android platform
• Integrate with cloud APIs and local device communication protocols to control smart devices
• Write and maintain tests using frameworks such as JUnit and Espresso
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features for mobile devices, optimizing for touch experiences. Write well-designed, testable, and efficient code
• Debug, profile, and optimize app performance across a range of Android devices
• Participate in design and code reviews, helping elevate code quality across the team
• Stay up to date with Android platform capabilities, tools, and libraries, and propose how we can leverage them
• Contribute to roadmap planning, technical design, and release delivery

We’re Excited If You Have

• Professional Android development experience, ideally with Kotlin and/or Compose
• Strong experience shipping and maintaining production apps in the Play Store
• Proficiency in using AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT) and experience with prompt engineering
• Experience working with IoT or networked device interactions is a big plus
• Familiarity with BLE, webs sockets, or MQTT protocols is a bonus
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams in agile environments
• Proficient in the Android development toolset
• Strong understanding of Android architecture, UI/UX patterns, and app lifecycle
• Excellent communication and debugging skills
• Bachelor’s or Master’s/PHD in Computer Science or related technical field, or relevant professional experience. 

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About The Team

At Roku, the Viewer Product Team is connecting millions of viewers worldwide to their favourite entertainment, through a uniquely Roku experience. The International Product Team works with functional experts and strategic leaders, to help build and execute on roadmaps for all aspects of the Roku ecosystem in markets around the world. This team works cross-functionally to understand the needs of our consumers and partners, along with other market opportunities, analyses data to draw insights and learnings, collaborates on a thoughtful go-to-market plan to drive the success of the latest features, and works hand-in-hand across marketing, sales, merchandising, data science, engineering and other product teams.

About The Role

We are looking for a strategic, growth-focused, collaborative, and experienced product manager to lead Roku’s viewer (OS / platform) product management function in the UK. In this role, you will oversee our growth & engagement strategy, manage our product roadmap and identify key product priorities that advance Roku’s strategic goals in the UK.  You will play a critical role in accelerating the growth of the Roku business in the UK and work together with other leaders in market to cultivate a strategic plan that positions Roku as one of the future leaders in UK media & streaming.  You will be accountable for setting, and achieving key market goals that are in service of accomplishing our broader UK strategy, and have a hand amongst other key leaders in market in formulating said strategy.

The ideal candidate is a strong product thinker, highly strategic while tactically savvy and skilled at navigating a matrixed environment. They know how to build trust and alignment, manage & optimise a product roadmap, solve complex problems through communication, transparency & critical thinking, and thrive in a fast-paced and collaborative setting.

This position will be located at our office in London and will report to the Director of Product, Management, International Growth. This role will require the ability to travel internationally, as well as domestically (to our offices in Cambridge & Manchester).

What You'll Be Doing

• Manage & optimise Roku’s viewer (OS) product roadmap for the UK
• Own our product growth & engagement strategy across UK, partnering with other key leaders in the UK office
• Drive alignment on key market metrics / goals, and be accountable for achieving goals through product launches & initiatives led by partner teams
• Enable & design in-market experimentation to ensure our products fit the unique needs of the UK market
• Ensure that market-specific needs & opportunities are represented in cross-functional planning and that our product efforts drive tangible business outcomes
• Build and strengthen relationships between the International Product team and other UK based Roku teams (marketing, ad sales, content distribution & monetization)
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to optimize the delivery of new features and ensure strong execution
• Communicate progress and strategy clearly across multiple levels of the organisation, including executive stakeholders both in the UK and abroad

 We’re Excited If You Have

• Product management experience
• Significant experience working in the UK TV or streaming industry, with a deep understanding of the ecosystem, technologies, and customer expectations
• Experience working either for, or with key UK media leaders / partners
• Hands-on (product-led) growth experience
• Experience with lifecycle marketing / user engagement strategy & activation or hands-on experience in understanding and driving long-term consumer retention
• Strong strategic thinking, prioritisation, organisation and execution skills
• Experience working cross-functionally across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and other disciplines to drive projects through completion
• Excellent communication and stakeholder / executive management skills
• Ability to improvise when necessary and solve complex problems with simple, or unexpected solutions
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

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About the Team 

The Advanced Development organisation pushes beyond the boundaries of product lines to build new things. We think independently of standard shipping cadences and timelines, working on foundational technologies that will impact every Roku device in the future, and on ideas that no one has seen before in their living room. As this is an exceptional team, we are seeking unusual talent. As part of Advanced Development, the Developer Experience team specifically focuses on driving internal changes in tooling to improve developer satisfaction and productivity. The team listens to their customers, determines the most impactful opportunities and executes on delivering those changes. The team works technologies including modern Linux embedded C++, build systems, cloud backend systems, and web platforms.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with an interest in driving our platform emulation product forward. You will be working on a software PAL version of the Roku OS which represents real hardware but facilities wider scale testing accessed via cloud hosting and web/API for internal users and Roku Partner development teams.

This is a very diverse role with exciting challenges and opportunities. One day you might be doing video decoding, or audio distribution, or tweaking docker, or testing app development or build tasks or cloud integration, or security or a ton of other things.  Every day is going to be a different problem and an opportunity to really learn about a lot of new tech and help design the infrastructure of a pretty complex system.

What You’ll be doing 

• Focus on the Native Build of Roku OS, which operates without physical hardware - drive forward the development and continue to keep the platform current and meeting the needs of internal and external users - covers both hand-on development and working with other teams to support them.
• Solve design problems in embedded software, application SDKs, networking, graphics, UIs, media and other areas across Advanced Engineering, always with an eye on the resource constraints of our players and TVs
• Write efficient software that can be easily ported to new or existing platforms
• Demonstrate excellence in C++ development and deliver high-performance, ultra-reliable software
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues to ensure optimal performance and user satisfaction. 
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices in software development.

We’re excited if you have 

• 10+ years in software development, architecture, and API design
• 5+ years Linux systems programming
• Excellent modern C++ programming skills
• An understanding of compilers and how code changes will impact resources and performance
• Proven track record of success developing software to operate within tight CPU, RAM, and storage constraints
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a team environment using agile processes.
• Excellent communication skills to effectively convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. 
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred. 

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About the Role 

We are building a next-generation observability and cloud platform that is high-performance, cost-efficient, secure, and scalable across multi-region, multi-cloud clusters. You will lead the architecture and evolution of Roku’s observability and cloud infrastructure stack. This includes metrics, logs, traces, telemetry pipelines, service mesh, developer experience, and reliability of systems that power thousands of services and millions of devices. 

You will drive a vision where developers gain deep visibility with minimal overhead, onboarding is seamless, and insights are available in real time. Your work will directly help Roku scale efficiently while maintaining reliability, cost control, and performance. 

What You’ll Be Doing 

• Architect and lead Roku’s observability platform across metrics, logs, and traces; evolve data pipelines and storage layers optimized for high throughput, performance, and cost at Roku scale (TSDBs, Parquet, distributed processing). 

• Extend and harden open‑source observability systems; overhaul core components (e.g., storage layers, query paths) to improve performance, reliability, and usability at scale. 

• Implement features such as pre‑aggregation, down-sampling, and sampling to reduce load and accelerate queries across the platform. 

• Collaborate across platform, SRE, and product teams to migrate hundreds of workloads to our common platform; augment and automate CI/CD flows and onboarding. 

• Integrate security into infrastructure and platform services; ensure robust multi‑tenant, multi‑cluster, and multi‑cloud designs. 

• Contribute improvements back to open source and CNCF‑aligned projects; shape standards adoption (OpenTelemetry, OpenMetrics) across the company. 

• Mentor engineers; establish best practices for reliability, efficiency, and cost management across service mesh and observability domains. 

What You'll have  

• Extensive experience with  software engineering with a track record of architecting distributed systems or platforms at scale. 

• Strong hands‑on experience in Golang and one scripting language (e.g., Python or Shell). 

• Experience operating observability at pb-scale ingestion and hundreds of millions of series. 

• Expertise in observability platforms and tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, ELK/OpenSearch, ClickHouse) and standards (OpenTelemetry, OpenMetrics).  

• Deep experience building systems of scale and operating cloud infrastructure with Kubernetes; strong proficiency with service mesh technologies (Istio/Envoy), infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform) and experience in multi‑cloud (AWS, GCP) 

• Demonstrated ability to evolve storage and query architectures for cost, scale, and latency (e.g., TSDB, Parquet, distributed processing). 

• Proven experience integrating security as part of infrastructure and platform development.   

• Exceptional cross‑functional communication; effective collaboration with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders. 

• Culture fit: independent thinker, pragmatic problem‑solver, low‑ego collaborator who moves fast and focuses on company success. 

• Experience integrating AI tools to improve processes and reduce toil. 
• Open‑source contributions in CNCF projects is preferred but not mandatory.  

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About the team 

Roku continues a long-term trajectory of supporting summer internship roles within the organization, to provide applicants with experience of our enthusiasm, expertise and company culture.  

The Advanced Development, AI @ Roku (Roku’s internal AI productivity suite), Content, and Edge AI team within the Engineering organization has been granted 4 summer internships in 2026. These internships are only available to postgraduate students who are currently studying for a PhD or have recently successfully completed a PhD. 

About the role 

The purpose of the internship is to involve each student in the work of the AI @ Roku, Content, and Edge AI team. Each student will be assigned a supervisor among the senior members of the team. This supervision aims to ensure that the intern finishes their contract with a clear view of what permanent employment within the AI @ Roku, Content, and Edge AI team would be like.  

All the intern projects will be clearly defined at the outset, easy to get started and challenging to complete, and relevant to the AI @ Roku, Content, and Edge AI team’s Q3 and Q4 2026 goals. 

Project outlines: 

• Multi-modal AI: Building new experiences for TVs with Vision-Language Models, focusing on multi-modal understanding and natural language interaction. 
• Developing multimedia content generation techniques 
• Content understanding and analysis for episodic and cinematic videos 
• Deploying and optimizing AI algorithms to the edge 
• Using AI to improve image and video quality 

What you'll be doing 

• Define, agree, and track the meaningful measures (KPIs) of success in the project.  
• Collaborate effectively with other members of the project team to achieve goals.  
• Contribute meaningfully to the implementation and delivery of the project.  
• Identify and communicate key learnings within and across project teams.  
• Actively partner with experts in the project field in Cambridge, and internationally.  
• Conduct feasibility studies to determine if 'new-to-the-world' ideas are viable for long-term integration into the Roku OS. 
• Present findings and prototypes to the broader engineering and product leadership to influence Roku’s long-term innovation roadmap.

We’re excited if you have 

• PhD in STEM discipline (current or recent)  
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills 
• Excellent communication and presentation skills 
• Proficient in data visualization and interpretation 
• High-level proficiency in Python 
• Background in mathematics, statistics, and CS 
• Ability to design and implement machine learning models 
• Familiarity with machine learning frameworks (PyTorch, Tensorflow) 
• Understanding of machine learning and computer vision algorithms and techniques 
• Experience with image processing pipelines, embedding spaces or modern LLM orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangFuse) is a plus. 

About the Team

We’re a distributed team working across multiple continents and time zones, focused on building high-quality software releases for Roku’s latest player devices. We move fast, adapt quickly, and care deeply about making products that are easy—and joyful—for customers to use. Interns are treated as real contributors: you’ll work with engineers, QA, product managers, and other partners, and you’ll get support through mentoring, feedback, and structured onboarding.

About the role

This internship is a great fit for a student going into their Placement Year who’s interested in embedded software development and software quality. You’ll help improve product quality and developer efficiency by contributing to automatable tests, debugging issues, and improving testing workflows for C/C++ applications running on embedded/Linux-based systems. 

We offer a paid 12 month internship, starting in September 2026.

What you'll be doing

With guidance from the team, you will: 

• Develop and maintain automated tests for applications written in C/C++ 
• Write scripts/tools (Python and/or Bash) to support test automation and analysis 
• Learn how to use logs, KPIs, and failure analysis to help reproduce, isolate, and understand issues 
• Review and improve existing test cases and automation code with support from mentors 
• Document test procedures, results, and learnings clearly and concisely 
• Collaborate with remote team members across time zones and communicate progress effectively

We're excited if you have: 

• Current enrolment in a Bachelor’s (or equivalent) in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
• Available for a 12 month period starting in September 2026
• Some experience programming in C and/or C++ (coursework, projects, labs, or internships) 
• Familiarity with Linux fundamentals and basic command-line tools 
• Basic scripting skills in Python and/or Bash/Shell 
• Interest in debugging and problem-solving (e.g., reading logs, reproducing issues, step-by-step investigation) 
• Comfort working collaboratively and communicating clearly in a distributed environment 
• A self-driven mindset and willingness to learn quickly in a fast-paced team

Nice to Have: 

• Exposure to embedded Linux development (e.g., Raspberry Pi, development boards, or coursework) 
• Familiarity with multi-threading concepts and/or memory management fundamentals 
• Experience writing tests (unit tests, integration tests, or white-box tests) 
• Any experience working with software running on SoCs or constrained devices 

What You’ll Gain 

• Hands-on experience contributing to real embedded systems and automation used by production teams 
• Mentoring and feedback from experienced engineers 
• Practical skills in debugging, test development, and working in a modern distributed engineering 

About the team

This team spends most of its time building and improving the UI framework and components that power Roku user experiences. Our roadmap helps us accelerate our growth and scale, putting surprising new features into the hands of tens of millions of Roku users worldwide.

Our developers and engineers are owners. They are motivated from within, finding and taking on a feature or project simply because that problem needs to be solved and shipped. But that individual must work together with different engineering teams, UI design, product teams, and business leadership to make things happen, which means that engineers succeed here because they can maintain that independent spirit and motivation within a deeply collaborative environment. We are the pragmatic dreamers inventing and re-inventing the world of streaming media.

About the role

Roku pioneered streaming to the TV and continues to innovate and lead the industry. While we are well-positioned to help shape the future of television and streaming media worldwide, continued success stems from experienced software engineers like you developing core features for the Roku platform.

Our new Software Engineer, UI Infrastructure will be contributing extensively to our embedded UI framework development. You will be working closely with system architects to develop new features or extend current features to improve system stability and performance. You will also be engaged in developing tools which can help the larger development community within Roku. A proven track record of shipping high-quality software on embedded platforms is essential. This is a great role for a professional who enjoys a high level of visibility and thrives on great business impact.

The features and performance improvements you implement directly impact millions of users every day. This is a great role for an experienced professional who has innovative ideas for complex problems and can translate these ideas into ultra-reliable software.

What You'll Be Doing

• Building and maintaining tooling to improve the quality and consistency of data collected from Roku OS logging.
• Developing and evolving offline pipelines that process logs to support initiatives like pre-merge validation in Firmware CI and automated data contract generation.
• Writing and reviewing C++ changes in embedded codebases to ensure logging is accurate, reliable, and usable downstream.
• Creating Python-based tooling and automation (non-embedded) to extract, analyze, and validate log usage across large codebases.
• Partnering with engineers across UI infrastructure, firmware, and CI to integrate tooling into developer workflows and keep it production-ready.
• Troubleshooting issues across tooling, pipelines, and source instrumentation, balancing correctness, maintainability, and scalability.
• Using agentic coding to accelerate feature development and testing

We Are Excited If You Have

• 3-5+ years of relevant software development experience.
• Proficiency in modern C++ with the ability to read, debug, and extend embedded/firmware codebases.
• Strong Python experience for building developer tooling, automation, and offline data-processing workflows (e.g., log analysis and data quality improvements).
• Experience building or improving CI pipelines (including validation and quality gates) to support reliable releases.
• Familiarity with logging/telemetry concepts and an interest in improving data quality from code to downstream consumers.
• Working knowledge of core systems concepts (memory, threading/concurrency, and debugging) and the ability to apply them when investigating issues.
• Experience designing pragmatic internal tools or APIs, with an understanding of trade-offs and maintainability.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset, as this role partners closely with engineers across UI infrastructure and adjacent teams.
• Built JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks or worked on JS virtual machines and runtimes

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About the team

This team spends most of its time building and improving the UI framework and components that power Roku user experiences. Our roadmap helps us accelerate our growth and scale, putting surprising new features into the hands of tens of millions of Roku users worldwide.

Our developers and engineers are owners. They are motivated from within, finding and taking on a feature or project simply because that problem needs to be solved and shipped. But that individual must work together with different engineering teams, UI design, product teams, and business leadership to make things happen, which means that engineers succeed here because they can maintain that independent spirit and motivation within a deeply collaborative environment. We are the pragmatic dreamers inventing and re-inventing the world of streaming media.

About the role

Roku pioneered streaming to the TV and continues to innovate and lead the industry. While we are well-positioned to help shape the future of television and streaming media worldwide, continued success stems from experienced software engineers like you developing core features for the Roku platform.

Our new Senior Software Engineer, UI Infrastructure will be contributing extensively to our embedded UI framework development. You will be working closely with system architects to develop new features or extend current features to improve system stability and performance. You will also be engaged in developing tools which can help the larger development community within Roku. A proven track record of shipping high-quality software on embedded platforms is essential. This is a great role for a senior professional who enjoys a high level of visibility and thrives on great business impact.

The features and performance improvements you implement directly impact millions of users every day. This is a great role for an experienced professional who has innovative ideas for complex problems and can translate these ideas into ultra-reliable software.

What You'll Be Doing

• Building and maintaining tooling to improve the quality and consistency of data collected from Roku OS logging.
• Using agentic coding to accelerate feature development and testing.
• Developing and evolving offline pipelines that process logs to support initiatives like pre-merge validation in Firmware CI and automated data contract generation.
• Writing and reviewing C++ changes in embedded codebases to ensure logging is accurate, reliable, and usable downstream.
• Creating Python-based tooling and automation (non-embedded) to extract, analyze, and validate log usage across large codebases.
• Partnering with engineers across UI infrastructure, firmware, and CI to integrate tooling into developer workflows and keep it production-ready.
• Troubleshooting issues across tooling, pipelines, and source instrumentation, balancing correctness, maintainability, and scalability.

We Are Excited If You Have

• 5+ years of relevant software development experience.
• Proficiency in modern C++ with the ability to read, debug, and extend embedded/firmware codebases.
• Built JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks or worked on JS virtual machines and runtimes.
• Strong Python experience for building developer tooling, automation, and offline data-processing workflows (e.g., log analysis and data quality improvements).
• Experience building or improving CI pipelines (including validation and quality gates) to support reliable releases.
• Familiarity with logging/telemetry concepts and an interest in improving data quality from code to downstream consumers.
• Working knowledge of core systems concepts (memory, threading/concurrency, and debugging) and the ability to apply them when investigating issues.
• Experience designing pragmatic internal tools or APIs, with an understanding of trade-offs and maintainability.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset, as this role partners closely with engineers across UI infrastructure and adjacent teams.

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About the role

With more than 85 million people using our products globally, we’ve become well-known for products that “just work” right out of the box and integrate almost by magic. That doesn’t happen by accident, which is why we are committed to making sure our products aren’t just intuitive; they’re obvious. Our goal is to help people find what they want and make it easier for people to stream.  We accomplish this using state-of-the-art technology and engineering to make it happen, considering the customer as the center of all that we do.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to focus on developing core features for the Roku platform UI. We are looking for someone with experience building high-performing applications and SDK components who wants to code on a wildly popular consumer electronics platform. This is an excellent role for a senior professional who enjoys a high level of visibility, thrives on having a critical business impact, and is excited to work on a component that touches almost everything streamed on the Roku platform.

About the team

This team spends most of its time working on customer focused features that improve the user experience, from cross-platform device experiences, TV & Player centric UI, and IoT integration with Roku OS. Our product roadmap helps us accelerate our growth and scale, putting surprising new features into the hands of tens of millions of Roku users worldwide.

Our developers and engineers are owners. They are motivated from within, finding and taking on a feature or project simply because that problem needs to be solved and shipped. But that individual must work together with different engineering teams, UI design, product teams, QA, and business leadership to make things happen, which means that engineers succeed here because they can maintain that independent spirit and motivation within a deeply collaborative environment. We are the pragmatic dreamers inventing and re-inventing the world of streaming media.

What you’ll be doing

• Work closely with product development, platform services, and release management teams to contribute extensively to our embedded UI development and underlying architecture
• Integrate third-party C++ libraries
• Investigate, diagnose and resolve issues within the Roku Platform

We’re excited if you have

• Relevant software development experience and a proven track record of designing and shipping high-quality software on an embedded platform. 
• Extensive programming experience with C++ and Embedded Linux or Native Application Development 
• In-depth understanding of Linux, tools, libraries, and open source development
• Proficiency in AI Assisted programming
• Understanding of API design considerations and tradeoffs
• Familiarity with tools and libraries such as Boost, PlayReady, ALSA, DIAL a plus
• Experience with memory management and multi-threaded development
• Experience with OpenGL and DirectFB
• Media / Video knowledge such as codecs, media streaming, etc. would also be a plus
• Ideally, embedded and consumer electronics experience
• Ability to accurately estimate software tasks and work to schedule
• Success at Roku is a collaborative effort, so you need to be a strong communicator, describing issues and solutions to various audiences
• Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent

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About the role

With more than 85 million people using our products globally, we’ve become well-known for products that “just work” right out of the box and integrate almost by magic. That doesn’t happen by accident, which is why we are committed to making sure our products aren’t just intuitive; they’re obvious. Our goal is to help people find what they want and make it easier for people to stream.  We accomplish this using state-of-the-art technology and engineering to make it happen, considering the customer as the center of all that we do.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to focus on developing core features for the Roku platform UI. We are looking for someone with experience building high-performing applications and SDK components who wants to code on a wildly popular consumer electronics platform. This is an excellent role for a senior professional who enjoys a high level of visibility, thrives on having a critical business impact, and is excited to work on a component that touches almost everything streamed on the Roku platform.

About the team

This team spends most of its time working on customer focused features that improve the user experience, from cross-platform device experiences, TV & Player centric UI, and IoT integration with Roku OS. Our product roadmap helps us accelerate our growth and scale, putting surprising new features into the hands of tens of millions of Roku users worldwide.

Our developers and engineers are owners. They are motivated from within, finding and taking on a feature or project simply because that problem needs to be solved and shipped. But that individual must work together with different engineering teams, UI design, product teams, QA, and business leadership to make things happen, which means that engineers succeed here because they can maintain that independent spirit and motivation within a deeply collaborative environment. We are the pragmatic dreamers inventing and re-inventing the world of streaming media.

What You’ll Be Doing

We’re Excited If You Have

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About the role 

Roku is looking for a Sr. Data scientist to join the Core Analytics team supporting our Viewer Product team. In this role, you will leverage data analytics to support and improve our Live product. You will own end-to-end analytics that shape how viewers discover, engage with, and return to Live experiences on Roku. You will work closely with product management and engineering to identify opportunities to create new features, drive their adoption, and generate value for Roku. This individual will investigate and develop solutions to track, monitor and improve our ecosystem. The successful candidate is quantitatively driven, detail-focused, and possesses an elevated level of problem-solving expertise. 

What you'll be doing 

• Analyze structured and unstructured data and communicate insights to help stakeholders solve business problems, identify trends and make data-driven decisions 

• Advise on key product development strategy decisions to drive our Live product experience 

• Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and data visualizations to monitor key metrics for operational and systems health 

• Develop necessary data pipelines to power automation, validation and reporting 

• Collaborate with stakeholders to align data science initiatives with organizational goals and strategy design and execute A/B tests 

• Perform exploratory data analysis on emerging trends and execute advanced analysis across the Roku Platform 

• Providing feedback directly to leadership on performance of various initiatives and untapped opportunities 

We're excited if you have 

• 4+ years of work experience with a bachelor's degree or master's degree in quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Business Analytics, Data Science, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering or Computer Science) 

• 4+ years of experience in product analytics. Experience with platforms in the media and entertainment industry preferred 

• Expertise in SQL, SAS, R, Python or other programming language to query data and perform analysis 

• Demonstrated ability to influence quantitatively meaningful business outcomes 

• Hands on experience with visualization tools like Tableau or Looker 

• Have a bias towards action in resolving issues and operate in a high-energy, fast-paced environment 

• Hands on experience in A/B testing and statistical modeling/forecasting 

This role can be based in either Cambridge, or Manchester. You are required to work in the office for 4 days per week, this is the core requirement of the role

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About the role 

Roku is looking for a Sr. Data scientist to join the Core Analytics team supporting our Viewer Product team. In this role, you will leverage data analytics to support and improve our Live product. You will own end-to-end analytics that shape how viewers discover, engage with, and return to Live experiences on Roku. You will work closely with product management and engineering to identify opportunities to create new features, drive their adoption, and generate value for Roku. This individual will investigate and develop solutions to track, monitor and improve our ecosystem. The successful candidate is quantitatively driven, detail-focused, and possesses an elevated level of problem-solving expertise. 

What you'll be doing 

• Analyze structured and unstructured data and communicate insights to help stakeholders solve business problems, identify trends and make data-driven decisions 

• Advise on key product development strategy decisions to drive our Live product experience 

• Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and data visualizations to monitor key metrics for operational and systems health 

• Develop necessary data pipelines to power automation, validation and reporting 

• Collaborate with stakeholders to align data science initiatives with organizational goals and strategy design and execute A/B tests 

• Perform exploratory data analysis on emerging trends and execute advanced analysis across the Roku Platform 

• Providing feedback directly to leadership on performance of various initiatives and untapped opportunities 

We're excited if you have 

• 4+ years of work experience with a bachelor's degree or master's degree in quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Business Analytics, Data Science, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering or Computer Science) 

• 4+ years of experience in product analytics. Experience with platforms in the media and entertainment industry preferred 

• Expertise in SQL, SAS, R, Python or other programming language to query data and perform analysis 

• Demonstrated ability to influence quantitatively meaningful business outcomes 

• Hands on experience with visualization tools like Tableau or Looker 

• Have a bias towards action in resolving issues and operate in a high-energy, fast-paced environment 

• Hands on experience in A/B testing and statistical modeling/forecasting 

This role can be based in either Cambridge, or Manchester. You are required to work in the office for 4 days per week, this is the core requirement of the role

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About the Team

The International TV Software team at Roku develops and delivers software for television platforms across international markets, with a focus on Europe and Australia. The team works closely with SOC partners to bring new TV products to market, develops software to meet regional broadcast standards, and supports certification with organizations such as ETV, the BBC, and DTG. The team operates across both new platform development and common software development projects, contributing to greenfield features as well as the ongoing evolution of Roku’s international TV software ecosystem. It is a collaborative, cross-functional team that values engineers who are curious, adaptable, and motivated to understand the full breadth of the systems they work on.

About the Role

As a Software Engineer on the Regional TV Software team, you will contribute to the development and delivery of software for regional TV platforms, working on both new TV platform projects and new software development projects. You will collaborate with SOC vendors, support certification processes with UK and European broadcast organizations, and help define and build new software features. This is a great opportunity for an engineer early in their career who is curious, collaborative, and motivated to grow across multiple areas of a complex software system.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Developing and maintaining software for regional TV platforms (Europe and Australia), covering the full lifecycle from requirements definition to greenfield feature implementation.
• Collaborating with SOC vendors and certification bodies (ETV, BBC, DTG) to support new projects and ensure compliance with regional standards like DVB-S/C/T, HbbTV (especially Op Apps), DVB-I etc.
• Utilising and contributing to our suite of internal AI-driven tools designed to accelerate development and improve engineering productivity.
• Troubleshooting and resolving technical issues across the software stack (primarily C++, with C, Python, and JavaScript) while working cross-functionally.

We’re Excited If You Have

• Up to three years of software engineering experience with strong C/C++ skills and familiarity with Python.
• A proactive “AI-adopter” mindset: experience using AI tools to write, debug, or optimize code and a drive to stay ahead of the curve in AI-assisted development.
• An interest in embedded systems, Linux environments, or browser-based development (HTML).
• A systems-level mindset—curiosity about how different parts of a system interact and a desire to learn broadly.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative approach to working through technical challenges.

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About the Role

This is a senior software engineering role where you will architect, design, implement and test the run-time and native renderer of Roku's software development kit. You will partner with engineers who build the higher level scripting parts of Roku’s SDK.

Roku prides itself in building software and features which run well on our oldest devices, while taking advantage of our latest ones. To this end, the software development kit will need to be designed and implemented from the get go to run well on devices with extremely limited system resources like RAM, Flash and CPU.

What you’ll be doing

• Architect, design, implement and test the run-time and native renderer of Roku's software development kit.

• Partner with engineers who build the higher level scripting parts of Roku’s software development kit.

• Ensure that we can stand behind all APIs exposed by Roku’s software development kit, and manage the evolution of these APIs.

• Ensure that the native development kit performs well on low-cost hardware. To this end you will design for and track RAM consumption, rendering frame rate, etc.

• Develop tooling which will allow Roku and 3rd party developers to build great optimized and performant applications to run on the Roku platform.

• Navigate through ambiguous problem spaces and meticulously distill out design choices, trade-offs, and priorities.

We’re Excited If You Have

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience

• 7+ years of experience in embedded C/C++ development and toolchain.

• Extensive experience with software development on embedded Linux

• Experience with multi-process architectures and IPC mechanisms.

• Experience with UI/app frameworks from iOS or Android is a plus.

• Excellent software design and architecture skills.

• Ability to see the big picture while focused on short-term objectives and deliverables.

• Ability to multi-task and drive parallel projects and distributed teams with tight deadlines.

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About the Role

This is a senior software engineering role where you will architect, design, implement and test the run-time and native renderer of Roku's software development kit. You will partner with engineers who build the higher level scripting parts of Roku’s SDK.

Roku prides itself in building software and features which run well on our oldest devices, while taking advantage of our latest ones. To this end, the software development kit will need to be designed and implemented from the get go to run well on devices with extremely limited system resources like RAM, Flash and CPU.

What you’ll be doing

• Architect, design, implement and test the run-time and native renderer of Roku's software development kit.

• Partner with engineers who build the higher level scripting parts of Roku’s software development kit.

• Ensure that we can stand behind all APIs exposed by Roku’s software development kit, and manage the evolution of these APIs.

• Ensure that the native development kit performs well on low-cost hardware. To this end you will design for and track RAM consumption, rendering frame rate, etc.

• Develop tooling which will allow Roku and 3rd party developers to build great optimized and performant applications to run on the Roku platform.

• Navigate through ambiguous problem spaces and meticulously distill out design choices, trade-offs, and priorities.

We’re Excited If You Have

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience

• 7+ years of experience in embedded C/C++ development and toolchain.

• Extensive experience with software development on embedded Linux

• Experience with multi-process architectures and IPC mechanisms.

• Experience with UI/app frameworks from iOS or Android is a plus.

• Excellent software design and architecture skills.

• Ability to see the big picture while focused on short-term objectives and deliverables.

• Ability to multi-task and drive parallel projects and distributed teams with tight deadlines.

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About The Role 

With millions of users worldwide, our products have earned a reputation for "just working" seamlessly right out of the box, almost like magic. This seamless experience is no accident; it's a testament to our commitment to creating products that are not just intuitive but downright obvious. At the heart of this commitment is the Roku OS QA Team, dedicated to rigorously testing every product and feature to ensure we deliver the most reliable streaming media platform in the industry.

Our mission is simple: help people effortlessly find and stream the content they love. We achieve this through cutting-edge technology and engineering, always putting the customer at the center of everything we do.

About the Team

As part of our team, you'll leverage your diverse skills to support both Software Engineers and QA Engineers, tackling the daily challenges of their roles. Your specialist knowledge will be invaluable in suggesting improvements to enhance quality and streamline workflows, ensuring we continue to exceed our customers' expectations.

As a Senior Software Engineer (SDET), you'll be the transformational force that revolutionizes our testing approach. You'll leverage AI and advanced analytics to identify quality gaps, architect intelligent testing solutions, and establish new standards for test effectiveness that go beyond simple coverage metrics.

What you'll be doing

• Design and implement intelligent test analysis systems that identify quality gaps, predict failure patterns, and optimize test effectiveness
• Design systems that collect, analyse and act on the testing data to continuously improve on the quality processes
• Experience with systematic regression tracking and implementing process to prevent regression reoccurrence
• Establish new methodologies for measuring and improving test quality beyond simple pass/fail metrics, focusing on regression prevention and production reliability 
• Leverage AI-powered tools for automated failure analysis, root cause identification, and test flakiness scoring
• Define and implement architectural patterns that make testing more effective, maintainable, and aligned with business impact

We're excited if you have

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with test architecture and automation systems design
• 8+ years of programming experience across multiple languages with Python
• Proven track record in driving test transformation: Experience leading initiatives that significantly improved test effectiveness and reduced production issues
• AI expertise for testing: Ability to design, implement, and optimize solutions leveraging LLMs, and predictive analytics for quality assurance
• Knowledge of continuous integration tools (Jenkins/GitLab, TeamCity, AWS) and their optimization for quality gates
• Advanced test analysis skills: Experience with test flakiness analysis, failure pattern recognition, and automated root cause identification
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to influence senior leadership and cross functional teams on quality initiatives
• Some working knowledge of C++
• Leadership experience mentoring engineers and driving organizational change in testing practices
• Certifications or training in AI/ML or AI testing (e.g., Coursera AI for Everyone, Google AI Engineer, ISTQB AI Testing Foundation)

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About the Team

Join a team dedicated to delivering customer-focused features that elevate user experiences on a global scale. Our team specializes in creating engaging content such as wallpapers, screensavers, trivia, featured experiences, AI project for content generations, and more. Guided by an ambitious product roadmap, we aim to accelerate growth and scale by introducing innovative features to millions of users worldwide.

We foster a culture of ownership where developers and engineers are self-motivated to tackle challenges and ship impactful solutions. Collaboration is key—engineers work closely with cross-functional teams, including UI design, product management, and business leadership, to make things happen. If you’re passionate about reimagining the world of streaming media in a dynamic, collaborative environment, this is the team for you.

About the Role

Our products are known for their seamless integration and intuitive design that delights users right out of the box. These qualities are the result of meticulous engineering and a commitment to excellence.

As part of the engineering team, you’ll develop and manage features for Screensavers, Static & Dynamic Wallpapers, Trivia, Featured Experience and AI initiatives. You will be working on A.I initiatives to develop new features on platforms to create user enhancing experiments.

  
What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing and developing features for new Experiences on the Roku platform. 
• Creating PoC to elaborate on ideas and work in startup mindset to break fast and deliver quickly. 
• Collaborating with UI/UX design and backend team to create and implement new experiences. 
• Adapting PoCs for productionising the solution
• Investigating, diagnosing, and resolving issues to maintain commercially viable solutions. 

We Are Excited If You Have

•  At least 10yrs experience in a Software Engineering environment
• Substantial Project based on using AI/ML and LLM technologies
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, React Native, Python, BrightScript, or related technologies. 
• Experience working in an embedded environment 
• Consumer electronics experience in media/content or ad product development is a plus. 
• Experience in productionizing solutions, including content management, UI development, cloud development, and cloud backend integration. 
• Knowledge of Core OS concepts like memory management and multi-threading. 
• Experience in API design, with an understanding of considerations and trade-offs. 
• Strong communication skills, as this role involves frequent collaboration across teams.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field

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About the team

You will be part of the Roku Video Platform Engineering team and responsible for building the next-generation video services for the Roku Cloud TV Platform. 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. Continued success relies on investing in the Roku Cloud TV Platform to deliver a high-quality streaming TV experience on a global scale. 

About the role

As a Video Encoding Engineer, you will build, optimize, and maintain high-performance video processing workflows. You will own our end-to-end encoding toolchain—from experimentation and profile tuning to automated packaging workflows—ensuring our content is delivered with maximum quality, reliability, and efficiency.

You will work closely with the team on key video services projects around video ingestion, encoding, VoD/live-linear, Server-Side Ads Insertion, and Video QoS, with the goal of delivering a best-in-class streaming TV experience across all Roku devices. The projects that you will work on will impact millions of Roku users around the world. Throughout, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with key product engineering stakeholders across Roku engineering teams and to lead the design of our video services platform.

The ideal candidate will have endless curiosity and can pair a global mindset with locally relevant execution. You should be a gritty problem solver and self-starter who can drive programs with the product and commercial teams within Roku and across external strategic partner organizations. The successful candidate will display a balance of hard and soft skills, including the ability to respond quickly to changing business needs. 

What you’ll be doing

• Design, build, optimize, and maintain FFmpeg-based encoding pipelines for both VOD and Live workflows, operating at scale in cloud environments such as AWS or GCP
• Develop, refine, and validate encoding presets for modern codecs, including H.264, HEVC, and AV1, ensuring optimal quality-to-bitrate performance
• Implement advanced encoding strategies such as multi-pass workflows, CRF tuning, per-title optimizations, and quality-targeted encoding
• Benchmark and evaluate video quality using VMAF and other objective metrics to drive continuous improvements in efficiency and viewing experience
• Build and maintain adaptive streaming packaging workflows, including HLS, DASH, and CMAF, ensuring broad device compatibility and reliable playback
• Profile and optimize system performance by identifying and eliminating bottlenecks across compute, storage, and I/O layers
• Write, review, and improve code, assessing architectural tradeoffs to deliver secure, high-performance, and highly concurrent video infrastructure services
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and platform teams to support and advance company-wide video service initiatives

We’re excited if you have

• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities
• 5+ years of solid programming experience and passionate about writing high-quality and well-architected code
• Expert-level knowledge of FFmpeg or Gstreamer and their related toolchains (filters, flags, debugging, custom builds)
• Experience with hardware-based encoder/decoder libraries (NVENC, Vulkan
• Strong understanding of compression theory, codec internals, GOP structures, bitrate control, etc
• Experience with container formats: MP4, TS, fragmented MP4, ISOBMFF
• Familiarity with HLS/DASH, CMAF, adaptive bitrate design, DRM, and SCTE 35
• A track record working with applied AI-based video enhancement and compression algorithms (Super Resolution, Denoising, Artifact Removal)
• Hands-on experience with cloud compute (AWS Lambda/ECS/Batch, GCP, Kubernetes, or similar)
• Ability to handle periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests; strong written and verbal communication skills
• Bachelor's degree in computer science plus 8 years of experience or equivalent; Master's degree preferred 

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About the role

With so many people using our products globally, we’ve become well-known for products that “just work” right out of the box and integrate almost by magic. That doesn’t happen by accident, which is why we are committed to making sure our products aren’t just intuitive, they’re obvious. To support that commitment, the Roku Ads Test Automation Team focuses on testing Ad products and features for the industry’s most reliable streaming media platform. Our goal is to help people find what they want and make it easier for people to stream. We accomplish this using state-of-the-art technology and engineering to make it happen, with consideration for the customer as the centre of all that we do.

We are seeking an experienced and versatile Software Development Engineer in Test to own quality of ad features on Roku Platform. You will be responsible for end-to-end execution of ad product which includes cross-team collaboration for feature testing, developing test plans, coordinate testing with manual QA, create an automation strategy, deployment of library/feature and more. You should be able to represent automation and QA concerns in meetings with cross-functional, project team members and provide valuable end-user feedback to improve the customer experience. This position requires a solid understanding of software development life-cycle experience with a variety of testing techniques, strong debugging, written and organizational skills, and automation experience.

About The Team

Our team works on qualifying all Ads products and features on Roku Platform. You will be joining a talented, high-performance team of SDETs with a history of delivery. We are looking for someone who can help us keep up this pace and continue delivering high quality as we grow.

What you'll be doing

• Own and execute the feature testing, create test plan documentation, collaborate with developers, product lead and other manual QA
• Develop Automated tests that run on Roku players and TVs
• Convert manual test cases into reliable, repeatable automated tests
• Contribute to the Continuous Integration pipeline by running component builds, creating and running Deployment jobs on individual stages on Jenkins, and running automated functional tests.
• Debug failing tests to improve product and automated test quality
• Promote coding conventions and standards for code re-usability and cleanliness
• Conduct code reviews for improved code quality and optimization

We are excited if you have

• 5+ years of Software Engineering
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with automation systems and unit testing (Python)
• Strong problem-solving, analytical and technical troubleshooting skills
• Solid knowledge and experience developing test plans and test cases
• Strong debugging skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Research and documentation skills
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly
• Ability to work independently and be self-directed
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related
• Experience with big data analytics: Splunk, ELK, Hive, Redshift, etc. (nice to have)
• In-depth knowledge of streaming back-ends and formats (nice to have)
• Experience working with Smart/Digital TV (HDMI), Setup Boxes, Wi-Fi
• (2.4Ghz & 5GHz), TV remote controllers (nice to have)
• International product experience (nice to have)

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About the team

At Roku, the Device Monetization and Themed Experiences (DMTE) team, a part of the Advertising organization, is where the magic behind the scenes happens. We’re the engineers who build the high-performance graphics and UI foundations that power the FRAME engine — the core technology enabling Roku’s smooth, responsive, and visually rich experiences on millions of devices worldwide. Our work lives in the middleware and UI layers, and its impact is felt every time a user navigates a menu, enjoys an animated ad, or is wowed by the bespoke experience built to market the latest TV show or Movies. We thrive on solving technical challenges — from optimizing UI rendering to fine-tuning memory usage — using BrightScript (or JavaScript-like) to deliver rock-solid, high-performance solutions. We work in a collaborative, high-trust environment where great ideas can come from anywhere, partnering closely with firmware, UI, and product teams to ensure our platform is lightning fast, reliable, and ready for the next generation of streaming innovation. If you love building the invisible foundations that make great user experiences possible, this is the team for you.

About the role

As a Software Engineer in the DMTE team, you’ll contribute to Roku’s platform innovation — implementing and optimizing BrightScript (or JavaScript-like) systems for graphics rendering and the FRAME engine. You’ll tackle performance-critical challenges, ensuring our devices deliver smooth visuals and instant responsiveness at scale. You’ll have the opportunity to learn about core architecture, work across the stack with hardware, firmware, and application teams, and see your work directly impact tens of millions of users. This is a role for engineers who love technical problem-solving, care about performance, and want to work on technology that quietly powers an entire ecosystem. If you’re ready to learn, grow, and contribute to the future of streaming, we’d love to hear from you.

What you'll be doing

• Build scalable UI features optimized for millions of users
• Contribute to technical investigations and solutions for middleware and UI challenges
• Explore integrating AI/ML capabilities and leverage generative AI tools to accelerate development
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on global platform features
• Develop engineering tools and learn from experienced developers
• Stay current with AI trends and emerging technologies

We're excited if you have

• 3+ years software engineering experience with UI development exposure
• C++ in an embedded environment
• Proficiency in BrightScript (or JavaScript-like) skills plus some experience with Python
• Strong problem-solving and technical communication abilities
• Interest in AI applications and a willingness to learn about generative AI tools
• Proactive mindset with passion for continuous learning and fast iteration

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About the Team

The Advanced Development team at Roku pushes beyond today’s product lines to invent the next generation of intelligent and generative media systems.
We explore ideas that sit years ahead of production, developing foundational technologies that will redefine how content is understood, created, and personalised across millions of Roku devices.

This is a rare environment — a PhD-level, cross-disciplinary group combining machine learning research, software engineering, and DevOps.
Everyone here is an expert, but not narrowly focused. The team blends deep technical mastery with broad creative vision — people who challenge convention, embrace ambiguity, and build what’s never been built before. It’s a collaborative, low-ego, ownership-driven culture built on trust and curiosity.

We’re seeking an Applied Scientist with a strong foundation in mathematics, machine learning, and computer science, combined with experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, and computer vision — someone who thrives where research meets production.

About the Role

As a Senior Applied Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll help design, build, and deploy the systems that make media smarter.
You’ll work across the full model and software lifecycle, from prototype to production, developing scalable ML pipelines and cloud architectures that power generative AI, intelligent media understanding, content analysis, and advertising intelligence.

You’ll operate at the intersection of machine learning, infrastructure, and software engineering, taking ownership from data collection through deployment — and seeing your work directly influence how audiences experience Roku’s content and advertising ecosystem.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Deploying scalable, fault-tolerant computer vision, media understanding, and generative AI systems to production

• Overseeing the full model development cycle: ideation, prototyping, implementation, deployment, testing, and operations

• Designing uncertainty metrics and communicating results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Gathering and compiling datasets, defining annotation ontologies, auditing annotation operations, and ensuring data quality

• Staying up to date with industry and academic trends in computer vision, machine learning, and generative models for media and advertising

• Working closely with product and other engineering teams to implement new content and advertising experiences through cloud services

• Integrating services from other teams around the company, while also providing reusable ML services to others

• Evaluating and providing feedback on new platform technologies provided by internal teams

• Working with QA teams to address bugs and contribute to automation and quality assurance

We’re Excited If You Have

• A Master’s degree (PhD preferred) in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or a related field

• Strong background developing applied machine learning systems using PyTorch or TensorFlow

• Expertise in image processing, computer vision, or natural language processing

• Experience using AWS, GCP, or Azure for storing data, training, and serving models

• Proven ability to evaluate models and communicate insights effectively

• Experience building APIs with frameworks such as GraphQL or REST

• Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow, Argo, AWS Step Functions, or Metaflow

• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD automation, and Python build or packaging tools

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About The Team 

The Roku trust engineering team is a close knit group of professionals with a passion for information security.  Our mission is to protect our customers, partners, devices, services, infrastructure, and data. We work collaboratively, sharing insights and expertise to stay ahead of the curve. Join us, and you’ll be part of a dynamic team that thrives on challenges and celebrates victories together. 

About The Role  

As a Senior Security Engineer on the Trust Cloud team, your role involves evaluating, architecting, designing, and implementing end-to-end security controls to impact the global user base. A key focus is on developing automated, scalable security solutions to enhance efficiency and protect Roku. This position requires a broad breadth of security expertise across all disciplines of security, including networking, DevSecOps, security tooling implementation, policy and procedure, risk evaluation, etc. 

What You Will Be Doing 

• Conducting enterprise, network, and application level security reviews.
• Conducting threat modelling for infrastructure, platform, and application initiatives.
• Planning and overseeing execution of security initiatives and projects
• Partnering with infrastructure, platform, and application teams to embed security into application architectures and deployment workflows as part of a robust Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC).
• Improving IAM policies, network configurations, DNS security, and cloud resource management practices.
• Designing and implementing integrations with third-party security platforms to automate vulnerability management, secure secret handling, and cloud posture monitoring, ensuring findings are actionable and seamlessly integrated into engineering workflows.
• Responding to security incidents to triage, contain, remediate, and report.
• Leveraging AI to accelerate your learning and enhance your work products.
• Driving security initiatives end-to-end — from identifying risks to delivering solutions — with high autonomy in a fast-moving environment.
• Automating vulnerability detection, misconfiguration checks, and compliance validation across cloud and containerised environments.
• Creating reusable security automation modules, templates, and patterns for engineering teams to adopt. 

We're Excited If You Have

• Experience doing security consulting and have balanced experience doing hands on implementation
• Experience supporting/leading DevSecOps initiatives and assisting teams in utilising and onboarding onto DSO platforms
• Designing, building, operating, and maintaining DSO platforms through IaC
• Offensive cyber operations such as application, system, and network level penetration testing
• Software Engineering experience with at least one general purpose programming language (ex. Python, Golang, C, Rust, etc.)
• Developed and/or implemented data tagging, data catalogs, or other data protection related activities
• Experience designing and administering enterprise identity and access management solutions at scale (ex: AD, EntraID, Okta, etc)
• Experience securely running and operating web applications, web services, and service-oriented architecture in production environments.
• A proven track record of deploying and operating Kubernetes clusters in production.  
• Experience deploying and operating infrastructure in multiple cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Fleet administration of Linux workstations and servers
• Defensive cyber operations such as operating a SEIM, managing a SOC, or leading cyber investigations 

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About The Team 

The Roku trust engineering team is a close knit group of professionals with a passion for information security.  Our mission is to protect our customers, partners, devices, services, infrastructure, and data. We work collaboratively, sharing insights and expertise to stay ahead of the curve. Join us, and you’ll be part of a dynamic team that thrives on challenges and celebrates victories together. 

About The Role  

As a Senior Security Engineer on the Trust Cloud team, your role involves evaluating, architecting, designing, and implementing end-to-end security controls to impact the global user base. A key focus is on developing automated, scalable security solutions to enhance efficiency and protect Roku. This position requires a broad breadth of security expertise across all disciplines of security, including networking, DevSecOps, security tooling implementation, policy and procedure, risk evaluation, etc. 

What You Will Be Doing 

• Conducting enterprise, network, and application level security reviews.
• Conducting threat modelling for infrastructure, platform, and application initiatives.
• Planning and overseeing execution of security initiatives and projects
• Partnering with infrastructure, platform, and application teams to embed security into application architectures and deployment workflows as part of a robust Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC).
• Improving IAM policies, network configurations, DNS security, and cloud resource management practices.
• Designing and implementing integrations with third-party security platforms to automate vulnerability management, secure secret handling, and cloud posture monitoring, ensuring findings are actionable and seamlessly integrated into engineering workflows.
• Responding to security incidents to triage, contain, remediate, and report.
• Leveraging AI to accelerate your learning and enhance your work products.
• Driving security initiatives end-to-end — from identifying risks to delivering solutions — with high autonomy in a fast-moving environment.
• Automating vulnerability detection, misconfiguration checks, and compliance validation across cloud and containerised environments.
• Creating reusable security automation modules, templates, and patterns for engineering teams to adopt. 

We're Excited If You Have

• Experience doing security consulting and have balanced experience doing hands on implementation
• Experience supporting/leading DevSecOps initiatives and assisting teams in utilising and onboarding onto DSO platforms
• Designing, building, operating, and maintaining DSO platforms through IaC
• Offensive cyber operations such as application, system, and network level penetration testing
• Software Engineering experience with at least one general purpose programming language (ex. Python, Golang, C, Rust, etc.)
• Developed and/or implemented data tagging, data catalogs, or other data protection related activities
• Experience designing and administering enterprise identity and access management solutions at scale (ex: AD, EntraID, Okta, etc)
• Experience securely running and operating web applications, web services, and service-oriented architecture in production environments.
• A proven track record of deploying and operating Kubernetes clusters in production.  
• Experience deploying and operating infrastructure in multiple cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Fleet administration of Linux workstations and servers
• Defensive cyber operations such as operating a SEIM, managing a SOC, or leading cyber investigations 

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About the team

About the role

What you’ll be doing

• Develop core features of the Roku Channel app and Roku OS.
• Work closely with Product Development, UI/UX design, Platform Services, and Release Management teams to contribute to our application development. Investigate, diagnose and resolve issues.

We’re excited if you have

• Experience developing UI applications using popular frameworks 
• Strong experience in Typescript is a must
• Experience writing functional integration and unit tests.
• A good understanding of Core OS concepts like memory management and multi-threading
• A good understanding of API design, considerations and trade-offs
• Strong verbal and written communication skills (this role involves frequent communication with teams throughout Roku)
• Consumer electronics experience building Media/Content and/or Ad product would be beneficial.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or related fields-MS3
• Nice to Have: Basic knowledge of C++
• Nice to have: Embedded software experience 

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About the team

About the role

What you’ll be doing

• Develop core features of the Roku Channel app and Roku OS.
• Work closely with Product Development, UI/UX design, Platform Services, and Release Management teams to contribute to our application development. Investigate, diagnose and resolve issues.

We’re excited if you have

• Experience developing UI applications using popular frameworks 
• Must have strong embedded C++ experience
• Strong experience in Typescript
• Experience writing functional integration and unit tests.
• A good understanding of Core OS concepts like memory management and multi-threading
• A good understanding of API design, considerations and trade-offs
• Strong verbal and written communication skills (this role involves frequent communication with teams throughout Roku)
• Consumer electronics experience building Media/Content and/or Ad product would be beneficial.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or related fields-MS3
• Experience working in streaming is a plus

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About the Role

This is a great role for a Software Engineer, Python / SDET , with a background in developing automated tools and tests on resource constrained hardware platforms. These tools and tests will be used daily to further improve our products and help deliver the highest quality software releases that will be deployed to devices in the field. In this role, you will develop tools that test, monitor, and analyse metrics of millions of players and TV products. 

Roku is seeking a versatile Software Engineer, to build out fully automated test suites as well as performance monitoring tools. You will build automation that validates both Roku OS system software and the largest, top‑tier streaming applications that run across Roku TVs and Players, and all the required infrastructure surrounding it. This includes extending existing tests and building new ones to reliably measure memory usage, playback performance, conformance to specifications and so on. You will be also responsible for building and maintaining a small multi-platform device farm that can be used by test and firmware engineers to build and run tests. 

You will work cross-functionally with various engineering teams. The role requires an energetic and self-motivated individual with excellent communication, organisation, and technical skills. 

What you’ll be doing 

• Develop and maintain an automation framework focused on testing high‑profile streaming applications 
• Actively collaborate with team of firmware and automation engineers to build and release features that are highly testable, functional, and robust..
• Integrate multi-platform and multi-technology heterogeneous test suites .
• Build and maintain a device farm to run and maintain automated tests and capture results. 
• Identify automation opportunities proactively and act independently. 
• Review feature specifications, write test plans, and develop automated tests. 
• Schedule automated tests, monitor and triage test results

We’re excited if you have 

• Excellent Python programming skills, with 4+ years relevant technical experience.   
• Experience with a variety of automated testing frameworks, with ability to articulate their pros and cons in a particular context. 
• Working alongside firmware developers, manual QA testers across different cross-functional teams. 
• Proficient in several programming languages and experience developing test plans & test cases. 
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and work independently. 
• Bachelors or masters degree in computer science or equivalent engineering experience. 
• Experience with browser‑based application testing (e.g., using Selenium).  
• Experience with iOS test automation and Apple platform tooling (e.g., XCTest / XCUITest)   
• Experience with the Appium framework for mobile UI automation. 

#LI-GL1

About the team

At Roku, the Device Monetization and Themed Experiences (DMTE) team, a part of the Advertising organization, is where the magic behind the scenes happens. We’re the engineers who build the high-performance graphics and UI foundations that power the FRAME engine — the core technology enabling Roku’s smooth, responsive, and visually rich experiences on millions of devices worldwide. Our work lives in the middleware and UI layers, and its impact is felt every time a user navigates a menu, enjoys an animated ad, or is wowed by the bespoke experience built to market the latest TV show or Movies. We thrive on solving the toughest technical challenges — from optimizing UI rendering to fine-tuning memory usage — using BrightScript (or JavaScript-like) to deliver rock-solid, high-performance solutions. We work in a collaborative, high-trust environment where great ideas can come from anywhere, partnering closely with firmware, UI, and product teams to ensure our platform is lightning fast, reliable, and ready for the next generation of streaming innovation. If you love building the invisible foundations that make great user experiences possible, this is the team for you.

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer in the DMTE team, you’ll be at the heart of Roku’s platform innovation — designing, implementing, and optimizing BrightScript (or JavaScript-like) systems for graphics rendering and the FRAME engine. You’ll take on complex, performance-critical challenges that demand both creativity and precision, ensuring our devices deliver buttery-smooth visuals and instant responsiveness at scale. You’ll have the opportunity to shape core architecture, work across the stack with hardware, firmware, and application teams, and see your work directly impact tens of millions of users. This is a role for engineers who love deep technical problem-solving, care about performance down to the last millisecond, and want to work on technology that quietly powers an entire ecosystem. If you’re ready to push boundaries, mentor others, and help define the future of streaming, we’d love to hear from you.

What you'll be doing

• Build scalable UI features optimized for millions of users
• Lead technical investigations and architect solutions for complex middleware and UI challenges
• Integrate AI/ML capabilities and leverage generative AI tools to accelerate development
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on global platform features
• Develop engineering tools and mentor junior developers
• Stay current with AI trends and emerging technologies

We're excited if you have

• 5+ years software engineering experience with UI development expertise
• Advanced BrightScript (or JavaScript-like) skills plus proficiency in Python
• Strong root cause analysis and technical communication abilities
• Knowledge of AI applications and experience with generative AI tools
• Proactive mindset with passion for continuous learning and fast iteration

#LI-NM1

About the team

At Roku, the Device Monetization and Themed Experiences (DMTE) team, a part of the Advertising organization, is where the magic behind the scenes happens. We’re the engineers who build the high-performance graphics and UI foundations that power the FRAME engine — the core technology enabling Roku’s smooth, responsive, and visually rich experiences on millions of devices worldwide. Our work lives in the middleware and UI layers, and its impact is felt every time a user navigates a menu, enjoys an animated ad, or is wowed by the bespoke experience built to market the latest TV show or Movies. We thrive on solving the toughest technical challenges — from optimizing UI rendering to fine-tuning memory usage — using BrightScript (or JavaScript-like) to deliver rock-solid, high-performance solutions. We work in a collaborative, high-trust environment where great ideas can come from anywhere, partnering closely with firmware, UI, and product teams to ensure our platform is lightning fast, reliable, and ready for the next generation of streaming innovation. If you love building the invisible foundations that make great user experiences possible, this is the team for you.

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer in the DMTE team, you’ll be at the heart of Roku’s platform innovation — designing, implementing, and optimizing BrightScript (or JavaScript-like) systems for graphics rendering and the FRAME engine. You’ll take on complex, performance-critical challenges that demand both creativity and precision, ensuring our devices deliver buttery-smooth visuals and instant responsiveness at scale. You’ll have the opportunity to shape core architecture, work across the stack with hardware, firmware, and application teams, and see your work directly impact tens of millions of users. This is a role for engineers who love deep technical problem-solving, care about performance down to the last millisecond, and want to work on technology that quietly powers an entire ecosystem. If you’re ready to push boundaries, mentor others, and help define the future of streaming, we’d love to hear from you.

What you'll be doing

• Build scalable UI features optimized for millions of users
• Lead technical investigations and architect solutions for complex middleware and UI challenges
• Integrate AI/ML capabilities and leverage generative AI tools to accelerate development
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on global platform features
• Develop engineering tools and mentor junior developers
• Stay current with AI trends and emerging technologies

We're excited if you have

• 5+ years software engineering experience with UI development expertise
• C++ experience in an embedded environment
• Advanced BrightScript (or JavaScript-like) skills plus proficiency in Python
• Strong root cause analysis and technical communication abilities
• Knowledge of AI applications and experience with generative AI tools
• Proactive mindset with passion for continuous learning and fast iteration

#LI-NM1

About the Team

Roku pioneered streaming to the TV and continues to innovate and lead the industry. While we are well-positioned to help shape the future of television – including TV advertising – around the world, continued success relies on our investment in digital services. Our team is a multi-disciplinary team responsible for the architecture and implementation of services that make up Roku's browse and discovery platform. This platform is the backbone behind The Roku Channel, offering a wide range of free and premium content and entertainment to millions of users in the US and around the world.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with experience in building services at scale.  With so many people relying on us for great movies, TV, and news - scaling, reliability, fallbacks, and automation of these scenarios are always at the top of our mind as we continuously add features to the platform. We work very closely with the product team and pride ourselves on quickly iterating on features from prototypes to A/B tests to eventual release to all users. It's still early days for this platform, with plenty of challenging and interesting problems to work on.

The ideal candidate will have endless curiosity and can pair a global mindset with locally relevant execution. You should be a gritty problem solver and self-starter who can drive programs with the product and commercial teams within Roku and across external strategic partner organizations. The successful candidate will display a balance of hard and soft skills, including the ability to respond quickly to changing business needs.

What you'll be doing

• Build extremely large-scale platform products and services, used both by Roku engineers from across the company, and directly by consumers across millions of devices
• Work with Product/Design teams to iterate and build software, taking a concept from ideation to its production deployment and support
• Lead efforts to evaluate new technologies and continue to push for best practices across the entire development life cycle, including code and design reviews
• Managing project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Participate in Agile development process, including scoping, technical design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance

We're excited if you have

• Strong software development experience - Java preferably - (Python nice to have)
• Expertise in building large-scale cloud services, ideally in AWS
• Experience in the appropriate selection of data stores and analysis of trade-offs
• Experience with in-memory caching layers such as Redis, Redis Cluster, Memcached, or others
• Track record of monitoring the quality of deploys and troubleshooting of production systems
• Strong knowledge of the end-to-end architecture of the web, from end-user device to a service in a data center
• Master's degree in CS, CE or equivalent experience

#LI-MS3

About the Team

Roku pioneered streaming to the TV and continues to innovate and lead the industry. While we are well-positioned to help shape the future of television – including TV advertising – around the world, continued success relies on our investment in digital services. Our team is a multi-disciplinary team responsible for the architecture and implementation of services that make up Roku's browse and discovery platform. This platform is the backbone behind The Roku Channel, offering a wide range of free and premium content and entertainment to millions of users in the US and around the world.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with experience in building services at scale.  With so many people relying on us for great movies, TV, and news - scaling, reliability, fallbacks, and automation of these scenarios are always at the top of our mind as we continuously add features to the platform. We work very closely with the product team and pride ourselves on quickly iterating on features from prototypes to A/B tests to eventual release to all users. It's still early days for this platform, with plenty of challenging and interesting problems to work on.

The ideal candidate will have endless curiosity and can pair a global mindset with locally relevant execution. You should be a gritty problem solver and self-starter who can drive programs with the product and commercial teams within Roku and across external strategic partner organizations. The successful candidate will display a balance of hard and soft skills, including the ability to respond quickly to changing business needs.

What you'll be doing

• Build extremely large-scale platform products and services, used both by Roku engineers from across the company, and directly by consumers across millions of devices
• Work with Product/Design teams to iterate and build software, taking a concept from ideation to its production deployment and support
• Lead efforts to evaluate new technologies and continue to push for best practices across the entire development life cycle, including code and design reviews
• Managing project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Participate in Agile development process, including scoping, technical design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance

We're excited if you have

• Strong software development experience - Java preferably - (Python nice to have)
• Expertise in building large-scale cloud services, ideally in AWS
• Experience in the appropriate selection of data stores and analysis of trade-offs
• Experience with in-memory caching layers such as Redis, Redis Cluster, Memcached, or others
• Track record of monitoring the quality of deploys and troubleshooting of production systems
• Strong knowledge of the end-to-end architecture of the web, from end-user device to a service in a data center
• Master's degree in CS, CE or equivalent experience

#LI-MS3

About the team

This team spends most of its time building and improving the UI framework and components that power Roku user experiences. Our roadmap helps us accelerate our growth and scale, putting surprising new features into the hands of tens of millions of Roku users worldwide.

Our developers and engineers are owners. They are motivated from within, finding and taking on a feature or project simply because that problem needs to be solved and shipped. But that individual must work together with different engineering teams, UI design, product teams, and business leadership to make things happen, which means that engineers succeed here because they can maintain that independent spirit and motivation within a deeply collaborative environment. We are the pragmatic dreamers inventing and re-inventing the world of streaming media.

About the role

Roku pioneered streaming to the TV and continues to innovate and lead the industry. While we are well-positioned to help shape the future of television and streaming media worldwide, continued success stems from experienced software engineers like you developing core features for the Roku platform.

Our new Senior Software Engineer, UI Infrastructure will be contributing extensively to our embedded UI framework development. You will be working closely with system architects to develop new features or extend current features to improve system stability and performance. You will also be engaged in developing tools which can help the larger development community within Roku. A proven track record of shipping high-quality software on embedded platforms is essential. This is a great role for a senior professional who enjoys a high level of visibility and thrives on great business impact.

The features and performance improvements you implement directly impact millions of users every day. This is a great role for an experienced professional who has innovative ideas for complex problems and can translate these ideas into ultra-reliable software.

What you'll be doing

• Develop, maintain, and enhance the high-performance grid rendering component that power Roku’s app engine
• Using agentic coding to accelerate feature development and testing
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including the Home Screen and EPG teams to integrate feature requests and optimize UI responsiveness 
• Implement unit, integration, and functional tests to ensure high-quality, snappy user experiences across Roku devices 
• Apply deep knowledge of Linux and OS concepts to improve system stability and performance 
• Work autonomously in a distributed team environment, communicating effectively across time zones and locations 
• Participate in design discussions and code reviews to uphold best practices in embedded C++ development and system architecture

We're excited if you have

• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, preferably with a focus on embedded systems or UI performance 
• Strong proficiency in C++ programming, with experience in developing and optimizing rendering engines or UI frameworks
• Built JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks or worked on JS virtual machines and runtimes
• Solid understanding of Linux OS concepts and experience working in Linux-based environments 
• Experience with test automation as part of the software development lifecycle 
• Familiarity with embedded development principles, particularly in mid-level firmware or system software 
• Ability to work independently and asynchronously in a distributed team environment across multiple time zones 
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams 
• A track record of delivering high-performance, snappy user experiences through efficient and maintainable code

#LI-AB3

About the Role

You will be a SME and technical leader in engineering Infrastructure, productivity and enterprise tooling, partnering with globally distributed Engineering, Product and Security teams and systems.

What You’ll Be Doing

Roku is seeking a world class engineer to be a true force multiplier by owning the strategy, architecture, and long-term execution of engineering infrastructure, enterprise tooling, and AI-assisted workflow automation. This architect/strategist role drives org-wide improvements in engineering productivity, delivery throughput, quality, security posture, and cost efficiency by building platforms, working practices and automation (including AI/LLM-enabled capabilities) that scale across geographies and time zones.

Key Responsibilities

AI-First Automation & Intelligent Tooling

• Define and lead an AI-first automation roadmap for Engineering Infrastructure and Enterprise Tooling (e.g., reducing waste, accelerating reviews, improving incident response, increasing release confidence).
• Architect and ship AI/LLM-enabled workflow automation across the SDLC (e.g. risk assessment, automated build, test and deployment, intelligent test selection, change-impact analysis, auto-triage of build/test failures).
• Establish policies and guardrails for AI usage in internal tools: data handling, prompt/response logging, model/provider selection, evaluation, fallback behaviors, and abuse prevention.

Dev Productivity & Enterprise Tooling (Global Scale)

• Set technical direction and standards for the globally used developer tools, including build systems. Source code management, branching/release strategy, and self-service support tools.
• Architect and evolve, CI/CD and build/test pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, and build systems (Bazel /BitBake/Yocto  preferred) to support multi-site engineering environments.
• Own and scale test and quality workflows leveraging test management systems (e.g., TestRail or equivalent), enabling consistent traceability, reporting, and release sign-off across distributed teams.
• Drive Jira workflow design and automation (templates, guardrails, integrations) to provide consistent cross-org visibility and execution.

Workflow Automation (Cross-Functional, Cross-Geo)

• Design and implement automation spanning Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Partners (e.g., launch readiness, certification/release checklists, partner onboarding, incident/change workflows).
• Replace manual coordination with durable automation and integrations that work reliably across regions/time zones.

Security, Cost, Performance, and Reliability (Distributed Systems)

• Embed secure-by-default controls into pipelines and tooling (access control, secrets handling, audit trails, policy enforcement), including for AI-enabled systems.
• Improve build/test performance and reliability (build times, test duration, flake reduction, pipeline stability) using measurable KPIs and operational rigor.
• Drive cost efficiencies across tooling/infrastructure (compute utilization, caching strategies, license rationalization including AI/runtime costs and ROI tracking.
• This is a highly visible role and you will report directly to a Vice President of Engineering. This requires a very strong technical leader with experience in the development of consumer electronics devices. The right person for this role will have ability to collaborate well with engineering and partner teams.
• Own cross-team architectures and standards; drive adoption through influence, clear technical judgment, and sustained multi-quarter execution.
• Lead design reviews, mentor senior engineers, and unblock the hardest technical problems across distributed teams and systems.
• Provide long-term stewardship via roadmaps, operational maturity (runbooks/SLOs), and incident/postmortem practices suitable for 24/7 global operations.
• Establish yourself as the person others bring their hardest problems to

We’re Excited If You Have

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Prior experience at Staff, Principal, or Architect level
• Ownership in platform/infrastructure, developer productivity, CI/CD, build systems, or workflow automation, including work spanning globally distributed teams and systems.
• Strong, hands-on knowledge of:

• • Git (workflows, branching strategies, release management)
  • Jenkins (CI/CD pipeline design, scaling, reliability)
  • Docker containers (reproducible build/test execution)

Build systems ( itBake/Yocto preferred)

• Jira (workflow design/automation, cross-team visibility)
• Test management systems (e.g., TestRail or equivalent)
• Demonstrated experience delivering automation at scale, including building platforms/components used by multiple teams.
• Strong systems thinking across security, reliability, performance, and cost tradeoffs.
• Excellent written communication (architecture docs, decision records, operating procedures).
• Experience building AI-assisted developer tooling (e.g., CI insights, test intelligence, code review automation, release risk scoring, incident copilots).
• Experience implementing evaluation/monitoring for AI systems (quality metrics, drift, offline test sets, human feedback loops).
• Extensive experience with software development on embedded Linux,  multi-process architectures and IPC mechanisms
• Experience working in large cross functional teams and ability to influence teams that don't report to you
• Ability to see the big picture while focused on short-term objectives and deliverables
• Ability to multi-task and drive parallel projects and distributed teams with tight deadlines

#LI-NM1

About the Role

You will be a SME and technical leader in engineering Infrastructure, productivity and enterprise tooling, partnering with globally distributed Engineering, Product and Security teams and systems.

What You’ll Be Doing

Roku is seeking a world class engineer to be a true force multiplier by owning the strategy, architecture, and long-term execution of engineering infrastructure, enterprise tooling, and AI-assisted workflow automation. This architect/strategist role drives org-wide improvements in engineering productivity, delivery throughput, quality, security posture, and cost efficiency by building platforms, working practices and automation (including AI/LLM-enabled capabilities) that scale across geographies and time zones.

Key Responsibilities

AI-First Automation & Intelligent Tooling

• Define and lead an AI-first automation roadmap for Engineering Infrastructure and Enterprise Tooling (e.g., reducing waste, accelerating reviews, improving incident response, increasing release confidence).
• Architect and ship AI/LLM-enabled workflow automation across the SDLC (e.g. risk assessment, automated build, test and deployment, intelligent test selection, change-impact analysis, auto-triage of build/test failures).
• Establish policies and guardrails for AI usage in internal tools: data handling, prompt/response logging, model/provider selection, evaluation, fallback behaviors, and abuse prevention.

Dev Productivity & Enterprise Tooling (Global Scale)

• Set technical direction and standards for the globally used developer tools, including build systems. Source code management, branching/release strategy, and self-service support tools.
• Architect and evolve, CI/CD and build/test pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, and build systems (Bazel /BitBake/Yocto  preferred) to support multi-site engineering environments.
• Own and scale test and quality workflows leveraging test management systems (e.g., TestRail or equivalent), enabling consistent traceability, reporting, and release sign-off across distributed teams.
• Drive Jira workflow design and automation (templates, guardrails, integrations) to provide consistent cross-org visibility and execution.

Workflow Automation (Cross-Functional, Cross-Geo)

• Design and implement automation spanning Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Partners (e.g., launch readiness, certification/release checklists, partner onboarding, incident/change workflows).
• Replace manual coordination with durable automation and integrations that work reliably across regions/time zones.

Security, Cost, Performance, and Reliability (Distributed Systems)

• Embed secure-by-default controls into pipelines and tooling (access control, secrets handling, audit trails, policy enforcement), including for AI-enabled systems.
• Improve build/test performance and reliability (build times, test duration, flake reduction, pipeline stability) using measurable KPIs and operational rigor.
• Drive cost efficiencies across tooling/infrastructure (compute utilization, caching strategies, license rationalization including AI/runtime costs and ROI tracking.
• This is a highly visible role and you will report directly to a Vice President of Engineering. This requires a very strong technical leader with experience in the development of consumer electronics devices. The right person for this role will have ability to collaborate well with engineering and partner teams.
• Own cross-team architectures and standards; drive adoption through influence, clear technical judgment, and sustained multi-quarter execution.
• Lead design reviews, mentor senior engineers, and unblock the hardest technical problems across distributed teams and systems.
• Provide long-term stewardship via roadmaps, operational maturity (runbooks/SLOs), and incident/postmortem practices suitable for 24/7 global operations.
• Establish yourself as the person others bring their hardest problems to

We’re Excited If You Have

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Prior experience at Staff, Principal, or Architect level
• Ownership in platform/infrastructure, developer productivity, CI/CD, build systems, or workflow automation, including work spanning globally distributed teams and systems.
• Strong, hands-on knowledge of:

• • Git (workflows, branching strategies, release management)
  • Jenkins (CI/CD pipeline design, scaling, reliability)
  • Docker containers (reproducible build/test execution)

Build systems ( itBake/Yocto preferred)

• Jira (workflow design/automation, cross-team visibility)
• Test management systems (e.g., TestRail or equivalent)
• Demonstrated experience delivering automation at scale, including building platforms/components used by multiple teams.
• Strong systems thinking across security, reliability, performance, and cost tradeoffs.
• Excellent written communication (architecture docs, decision records, operating procedures).
• Experience building AI-assisted developer tooling (e.g., CI insights, test intelligence, code review automation, release risk scoring, incident copilots).
• Experience implementing evaluation/monitoring for AI systems (quality metrics, drift, offline test sets, human feedback loops).
• Extensive experience with software development on embedded Linux,  multi-process architectures and IPC mechanisms
• Experience working in large cross functional teams and ability to influence teams that don't report to you
• Ability to see the big picture while focused on short-term objectives and deliverables
• Ability to multi-task and drive parallel projects and distributed teams with tight deadlines

#LI-NM1

Are you passionate about building scalable, high-performance systems that process massive amounts of data? Do you thrive on designing and implementing innovative solutions to empower engineering teams with actionable insights? Are you excited to advance open-source observability at a massive scale? Join us to extend (open source) observability tools and build new capabilities that help teams manage data better and get actionable insights. 

About the Team 

The Observability team is part of Roku’s Cloud Technology Infrastructure organisation and plays a critical role in our platform. We are a high-performing, fast-moving international team that thrives on ownership, effective communication, and delivering impactful engineering solutions. 

Our mission is to advance Roku’s observability platform, which operates at an impressive scale by ingesting terabytes of data daily and managing hundreds of millions of active series. As part of this mission, we focus on building scalable, performant systems to meet Roku’s unique needs. By leveraging open-source tools, CNCF-supported projects, and custom solutions, we enable engineering teams across Roku to monitor, debug, and optimise their applications with ease. 

What sets us apart is our results-driven culture rooted in ownership, accountability, and fast iteration. We prioritise solving meaningful engineering problems, fostering collaboration, and continuously improving how we work as a team. 

About the Role 

You will work on core observability systems (metrics, logs, traces) while also developing robust data pipelines and storage solutions optimized for high throughput, performance, and cost. You’ll leverage technologies such as time-series databases (TSDB), columnar storage formats (e.g., Parquet), and distributed data processing frameworks to advance the platform’s capabilities. Collaboration with cross-functional teams will be critical, as you’ll integrate observability into Roku’s cloud-native stack and contribute improvements back to the open-source community. 

• Extend and integrate open-source observability systems, and when needed, structurally overhaul core components, such as storage layers and query paths, to improve performance, reliability, and usability of these tools at scale. 

• Build services to improve performance, usability, reliability, and cost efficiency. 

• Implement features like pre-aggregation, downsampling, and sampling to reduce load and accelerate queries. 

• Create developer-facing capabilities for metrics, logs, and traces usage, data quality, and cost management. 

• Automate onboarding, dashboards, alerting, and tracing. 

• Collaborate across platform and infrastructure teams to integrate observability into Roku’s cloud-native stack. 

What We’re Looking For 

• Extensive experience in software engineering building distributed, high-throughput systems or observability platforms. 

• Hands on Go experience; our observability ecosystem is Go-based, making it the most effective language for this role. 

• Experience with, or strong interest in, observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, ELK/OpenSearch, Clickhouse) and standards (OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, OpenMetrics). 

• Deep understanding of distributed systems and data models 

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure). 

#LI-PA1

Are you passionate about building scalable, high-performance systems that process massive amounts of data? Do you thrive on designing and implementing innovative solutions to empower engineering teams with actionable insights? Are you excited to advance open-source observability at a massive scale? Join us to extend (open source) observability tools and build new capabilities that help teams manage data better and get actionable insights. 

About the Team 

The Observability team is part of Roku’s Cloud Technology Infrastructure organisation and plays a critical role in our platform. We are a high-performing, fast-moving international team that thrives on ownership, effective communication, and delivering impactful engineering solutions. 

Our mission is to advance Roku’s observability platform, which operates at an impressive scale by ingesting terabytes of data daily and managing hundreds of millions of active series. As part of this mission, we focus on building scalable, performant systems to meet Roku’s unique needs. By leveraging open-source tools, CNCF-supported projects, and custom solutions, we enable engineering teams across Roku to monitor, debug, and optimize their applications with ease. 

What sets us apart is our results-driven culture rooted in ownership, accountability, and fast iteration. We prioritize solving meaningful engineering problems, fostering collaboration, and continuously improving how we work as a team. 

About the Role 

You will work on core observability systems (metrics, logs, traces) while also developing robust data pipelines and storage solutions optimized for high throughput, performance, and cost. You’ll leverage technologies such as time-series databases (TSDB), columnar storage formats (e.g., Parquet), and distributed data processing frameworks to advance the platform’s capabilities. Collaboration with cross-functional teams will be critical, as you’ll integrate observability into Roku’s cloud-native stack and contribute improvements back to the open-source community. 

• Extend and integrate open-source observability systems, and when needed, structurally overhaul core components, such as storage layers and query paths, to improve performance, reliability, and usability of these tools at scale. 

• Build services to improve performance, usability, reliability, and cost efficiency. 

• Implement features like pre-aggregation, downsampling, and sampling to reduce load and accelerate queries. 

• Create developer-facing capabilities for metrics, logs, and traces usage, data quality, and cost management. 

• Automate onboarding, dashboards, alerting, and tracing. 

• Collaborate across platform and infrastructure teams to integrate observability into Roku’s cloud-native stack. 

What We’re Looking For 

• Extensive experience in software engineering building distributed, high-throughput systems or observability platforms. 

• Hands on Go experience; our observability ecosystem is Go-based, making it the most effective language for this role. 

• Experience with, or strong interest in, observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, ELK/OpenSearch, Clickhouse) and standards (OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, OpenMetrics). 

• Deep understanding of distributed systems and data models 

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure). 

#LI-PA1

Are you passionate about building scalable, high-performance systems that process massive amounts of data? Do you thrive on designing and implementing innovative solutions to empower engineering teams with actionable insights? Are you excited to advance open-source observability at a massive scale? Join us to extend (open source) observability tools and build new capabilities that help teams manage data better and get actionable insights. 

About the Team 

The Observability team is part of Roku’s Cloud Technology Infrastructure organisation and plays a critical role in our platform. We are a high-performing, fast-moving international team that thrives on ownership, effective communication, and delivering impactful engineering solutions. 

Our mission is to advance Roku’s observability platform, which operates at an impressive scale by ingesting terabytes of data daily and managing hundreds of millions of active series. As part of this mission, we focus on building scalable, performant systems to meet Roku’s unique needs. By leveraging open-source tools, CNCF-supported projects, and custom solutions, we enable engineering teams across Roku to monitor, debug, and optimise their applications with ease. 

What sets us apart is our results-driven culture rooted in ownership, accountability, and fast iteration. We prioritise solving meaningful engineering problems, fostering collaboration, and continuously improving how we work as a team. 

About the Role 

You will work on core observability systems (metrics, logs, traces) while also developing robust data pipelines and storage solutions optimized for high throughput, performance, and cost. You’ll leverage technologies such as time-series databases (TSDB), columnar storage formats (e.g., Parquet), and distributed data processing frameworks to advance the platform’s capabilities. Collaboration with cross-functional teams will be critical, as you’ll integrate observability into Roku’s cloud-native stack and contribute improvements back to the open-source community. 

• Extend and integrate open-source observability systems, and when needed, structurally overhaul core components, such as storage layers and query paths, to improve performance, reliability, and usability of these tools at scale. 

• Build services to improve performance, usability, reliability, and cost efficiency. 

• Implement features like pre-aggregation, downsampling, and sampling to reduce load and accelerate queries. 

• Create developer-facing capabilities for metrics, logs, and traces usage, data quality, and cost management. 

• Automate onboarding, dashboards, alerting, and tracing. 

• Collaborate across platform and infrastructure teams to integrate observability into Roku’s cloud-native stack. 

What We’re Looking For 

• Extensive experience in software engineering building distributed, high-throughput systems or observability platforms. 

• Hands on Go experience; our observability ecosystem is Go-based, making it the most effective language for this role. 

• Experience with, or strong interest in, observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, ELK/OpenSearch, Clickhouse) and standards (OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, OpenMetrics). 

• Deep understanding of distributed systems and data models 

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure). 

#LI-PA1

Are you passionate about building scalable, high-performance systems that process massive amounts of data? Do you thrive on designing and implementing innovative solutions to empower engineering teams with actionable insights? Are you excited to advance open-source observability at a massive scale? Join us to extend (open source) observability tools and build new capabilities that help teams manage data better and get actionable insights. 

About the Team 

The Observability team is part of Roku’s Cloud Technology Infrastructure organisation and plays a critical role in our platform. We are a high-performing, fast-moving international team that thrives on ownership, effective communication, and delivering impactful engineering solutions. 

Our mission is to advance Roku’s observability platform, which operates at an impressive scale by ingesting terabytes of data daily and managing hundreds of millions of active series. As part of this mission, we focus on building scalable, performant systems to meet Roku’s unique needs. By leveraging open-source tools, CNCF-supported projects, and custom solutions, we enable engineering teams across Roku to monitor, debug, and optimise their applications with ease. 

What sets us apart is our results-driven culture rooted in ownership, accountability, and fast iteration. We prioritise solving meaningful engineering problems, fostering collaboration, and continuously improving how we work as a team. 

About the Role 

You will work on core observability systems (metrics, logs, traces) while also developing robust data pipelines and storage solutions optimized for high throughput, performance, and cost. You’ll leverage technologies such as time-series databases (TSDB), columnar storage formats (e.g., Parquet), and distributed data processing frameworks to advance the platform’s capabilities. Collaboration with cross-functional teams will be critical, as you’ll integrate observability into Roku’s cloud-native stack and contribute improvements back to the open-source community. 

• Extend and integrate open-source observability systems, and when needed, structurally overhaul core components, such as storage layers and query paths, to improve performance, reliability, and usability of these tools at scale. 

• Build services to improve performance, usability, reliability, and cost efficiency. 

• Implement features like pre-aggregation, downsampling, and sampling to reduce load and accelerate queries. 

• Create developer-facing capabilities for metrics, logs, and traces usage, data quality, and cost management. 

• Automate onboarding, dashboards, alerting, and tracing. 

• Collaborate across platform and infrastructure teams to integrate observability into Roku’s cloud-native stack. 

What We’re Looking For 

• Extensive experience in software engineering building distributed, high-throughput systems or observability platforms. 

• Hands on Go experience; our observability ecosystem is Go-based, making it the most effective language for this role. 

• Experience with, or strong interest in, observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, ELK/OpenSearch, Clickhouse) and standards (OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, OpenMetrics). 

• Deep understanding of distributed systems and data models 

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure). 

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