Senior Software Engineer, Advertising Engineering

About the role

A highly scalable, highly available, real-time advertising platform is critical to support and grow Roku's rapidly expanding ad business. It is the mission of the Ad Engineering Team to build this platform. We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Advertising Platform, to be a vital part of this mission. If you bring extensive experience building complex systems, love great technology at scale, enjoy mentoring, jumping in, and figuring things out in any system, this role is for you!

What you'll be doing

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

We're excited if you have

• 8+ years of experience building large scale and low latency distributed systems.
• Command of Java or C++.
• Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, performance optimization techniques, object-oriented programming, multi-threading, and real-time programming.
• Experience with distributed caching, SQL/NO SQL, and other databases is a plus.
• Experience with Big Data and cloud services such as AWS/GCP is a plus.
• Experience in advertising domain a big plus
• B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
• Self-motivated individual with a high level of accountability and ownership.
• Critical thinking and practical decision making.
• Can do, results-oriented mindset.
• Nonpolitical, collaborative, and team oriented.
• Desire to win in a highly competitive industry.
  
• AI growth mindset / AI Literacy