Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Backend
Roku Inc.San Jose, California, United States
Posted March 18, 2026
186000 - 360000 USD
Full Time
About the Company
Roku is a fast-growing public company that pioneers TV streaming and continues to innovate, leading the industry.
Job Description
Roku is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Advertising Platform to build a real-time, highly scalable, and available advertising platform. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience building complex systems, love great technology at scale, enjoy mentoring, and be able to pair a global mindset with locally relevant execution.
Requirements
- 10+ 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/NoSQL, and other databases
- Experience with Big Data and cloud services such as AWS/GCP
- Experience in the advertising domain
- B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Equity awards
- Life insurance
- Disability benefits
- Parental leave
- Wellness benefits
- Paid time off