Senior Software Engineer - Backend and Data

About the Team

Roku pioneered TV streaming and continues to innovate and lead the industry. Continued success relies on investing in the Roku Content Platform, so we deliver high quality streaming TV experience at a global scale. As part of our Content Platform team you join a small group of highly skilled engineers, that own significant responsibility in crafting, developing and maintaining our large-scale backend systems, data pipelines, storage, and processing services. We provide all insights in regard to all content on Roku Devices.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with vast experience in backend development, Data Engineering and Data Analytics to focus on building next level content platform and data intelligence, which empowers Search, Recommendation, and many more critical systems across Roku Platform. This is an excellent role for a senior professional who enjoys a high level of visibility, thrives on having a critical business impact, able to make critical decisions and is excited to work on a core data platform component which is crucial for many streaming components at Roku.

What You'll Be Doing

• Work closely with product management team, content data platform services, and other internal consumer teams to contribute extensively to our content data platform and underlying architecture.
• Build low-latency and optimized streaming and batch data pipelines to enable downstream services.
• Build and support our Micro-services based Event-Driven Backend Systems & Data Platform.
• Design and build data pipelines for batch, near-real-time, and real-time processing.
• Participate in architecture discussions, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects.

We're excited if you have

• 8+ years professional experience as a Software Engineer.
• Proficiency in Java/Scala/Python.
• Deep understanding of backend technologies, architecture patterns, and best practices, including microservices, RESTful APIs, message queues, caching, and databases.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, data structures and algorithms, with the ability to translate complex technical requirements into scalable and efficient solutions.
• Experience with Micro-service and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with Apache Spark and Apache Flink.
• Experience with Big Data Frameworks and Tools: MapReduce, Hive, Presto, HDFS, YARN, Kafka, etc.
• Experience with Apache Airflow or similar workflow orchestration tooling for ETL.
• Experience with cloud platforms: AWS (preferred), GCP, etc.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• BS in Computer Science; MS in Computer Science preferred.
• AI literacy and curiosity.You have either tried Gen AI in your previous work or outside of work or are curious about Gen AI and have explored it.