Senior Software Engineer - Devops

Teamwork makes the stream work.

Roku is changing how the world watches TV

Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and we've set our sights on powering every television in the world. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. Our mission is to be the TV streaming platform that connects the entire TV ecosystem. We connect consumers to the content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers unique capabilities to engage consumers.

From your first day at Roku, you'll make a valuable - and valued - contribution. We're a fast-growing public company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of TV streamers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines.

About the team

The Ads Customer Interfaces team builds full-stack web applications, APIs, UIs, and ETL pipelines that serve as the primary interface between Roku’s advertising platform and both internal and external customers. Our mission is to deliver a best-in-class user experience by simplifying complex business workflows, enabling users to focus on their customers rather than tedious processes.

As a member of this team, you will work closely with product, data, and engineering partners to build reliable, scalable systems that power Roku’s advertising business.

About the role

We are seeking a Senior SRE / Platform Engineer (Infrastructure) to join the Ads Business Automation team. This is a product-embedded infrastructure role where you will actively contribute to application and ETL code while owning critical platform capabilities such as cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes environments, CI/CD systems, observability, networking, and security.

This role blends software engineering, infrastructure engineering, and reliability, and is ideal for engineers who enjoy building and operating systems end-to-end as part of a product team rather than working in a centralized operations function.

What you’ll be doing

• Write clean, maintainable Python for services, automation, and infrastructure tooling.
• Design, migrate and operate Kubernetes clusters (EKS / GKE) in production.
• Lead cluster upgrades, workload migrations, autoscaling and capacity planning.
• Implement safe deployment strategies (rolling, canary, blue/green).
• Manage Infra as Code (Terraform or equivalent) and fully checked into version control.
• Operate multi-environment (dev/stage/prod) and multi-region setups on AWS and/or GCP.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for large monorepos.
• Support deployments for Web applications , Background workers and ETL and batch pipelines
• Improve release safety, rollback mechanisms, and developer velocity.
• Design and maintain telemetry across services using Metrics, logs, and traces, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry or equivalent
• Set up PagerDuty alerts, on-call workflows, and incident response processes.
• Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and service health indicators
• Support GenAI-powered services used in Ads automation.
• Implement observability for LLM systems, including: Latency, throughput, error rates and Infrastructure-level reliability and capacity signals

We are Excited to have you if you have:

• 8+ years of experience in SRE, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure or Backend Engineering roles.
• Strong Python proficiency for services, pipelines, and automation.
• Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience working with AWS or GCP.
• Linux systems
• Networking (DNS, VPCs, routing)
• Distributed systems
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, monorepos, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience building or operating observability and alerting systems.
• Experience with Airflow or large-scale ETL/data systems.
• Experience supporting GenAI / ML infrastructure in production.
• Prior on-call ownership for production systems.

What's Roku's approach to hybrid working?

Roku fosters an inclusive and collaborative environment where teams generally work in the office Monday through Thursday. Fridays are generally flexible for remote work, except for employees whose specific roles or assigned office location require five days' a week attendance.

What are some of the benefits?

Roku is committed to offering a diverse range of benefits as part of our compensation package to support our employees and their families. Our comprehensive benefits include global access to mental health and financial wellness support and resources. Local benefits include statutory and voluntary benefits which may include healthcare (medical, dental, and vision), life, accident, disability, commuter, and retirement options (401(k)/pension). Employees are supported in taking time off, in accordance with local leave policies and other personal needs to support their evolving work and life needs. It's important to note that not every benefit is available in all locations or for every role. For details specific to your location, please consult with your recruiter.

Accommodations

Roku welcomes applicants of all backgrounds and provides reasonable accommodations and adjustments in accordance with applicable law. If you require reasonable accommodation at any point in the hiring process, please direct your inquiries to [email protected].

What should I know about Roku's culture?

Roku is a great place for people who want to work in a fast-paced environment where everyone is focused on the company's success rather than their own. We try to surround ourselves with people who are great at their jobs, who are easy to work with, and who keep their egos in check. We appreciate a sense of humor. We believe a fewer number of very talented folks can do more for less cost than a larger number of less talented teams. We're independent thinkers with big ideas who act boldly, move fast and accomplish extraordinary things through collaboration and trust. In short, at Roku you'll be part of a company that's changing how the world watches TV.

We have a unique culture that we are proud of. We think of ourselves primarily as problem-solvers, which itself is a two-part idea. We come up with the solution, but the solution isn't real until it is built and delivered to the customer. That penchant for action gives us a pragmatic approach to innovation, one that has served us well since 2002.

To learn more about Roku, our global footprint, and how we've grown, visit https://www.weareroku.com/factsheet.

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