Senior Software Engineer (Ad Serving)

About this role

• A highly scalable and highly available real-time advertising platform is crucial for supporting and growing Roku’s advertising business
• The mission of the Ad Engineering Team is to build this platform
• We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Advertising Platform to play a vital role in 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!
• Roku pioneered TV streaming and continues to innovate, leading the industry
• The Roku Channel has us well-positioned to help shape the future of streaming
• Continued success relies on investing in Advertising Engineering
• The ideal candidate will possess endless curiosity and be able to pair a global mindset with locally relevant execution
• The successful candidate will demonstrate a balance of hard and soft skills, including the ability to respond promptly to evolving business needs
• Building a real-time, highly scalable, and available advertising platform is critical for our success
• Our team’s mission is to build a best-in-class advertising platform to support and grow Roku’s exploding ad business
• Our platforms are highly performant, deployed at scale, and set new standards for enabling effective advertising while protecting user privacy
• Work alongside a highly skilled engineering team to design, develop, and maintain large-scale, highly performing, real-time applications
• Own building features, driving directly with the 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

### Benefits

• Medical, wellness and financial benefits
• Free snacks and access to the company fitness cen...