Senior Software Engineer, Backend

About the team 

The primary responsibility of the Content Management team is to develop and manage the Content Management System (CMS). This system processes all content showcased on the Roku Channel, including creating ingestion pipelines, collaborating with partners for content acquisition, processing metadata, and managing content selection. The team also ensures that all Roku personnel can seamlessly update metadata. The Content Management team collaborates closely with the Recommendation team to enhance content curation and personalized recommendations. The system is designed to be highly scalable, leveraging distributed architectures and machine learning algorithms. The team aims to build a next-generation platform by revamping, redesigning, and expanding existing systems. This initiative addresses scalability, and latency constraints, and accommodates a growing number of content providers and partners.  

 

About the role 

Roku pioneered TV streaming and continues to innovate and lead the industry. The Roku Channel has us well-positioned to help shape the future of streaming. Continued success relies on investing in the Roku Cloud TV Platform, so we deliver high quality streaming TV experience at a global scale. You will be part of the Roku Content Management System and Tools Engineering team, playing a key role in developing the next generation content management systems that drive content ingestion, selection, management, and curation workflows. These systems are vital for empowering critical functions like Search and Recommendation on the Roku Platform. Your projects will have a direct impact on millions of Roku users globally. Throughout, you'll collaborate with key stakeholders across various Roku engineering teams and take the lead in designing our content management system. The ideal candidate will have endless curiosity and can pair a global mindset with locally relevant execution. You should be a gritty problem solver and self-starter who can drive programs with the product and commercial teams within Roku and across external strategic partner organizations. The successful candidate will display a balance of hard and soft skills, including the ability to respond quickly to changing business needs. 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 content pipeline component which is crucial for many streaming components at Roku. 
 

What you’ll be doing 

• Design and implement highly scalable, and reliable web scale applications, tools and automation frameworks that power the Roku Content Management System 

• Work closely with product management team, content management services, and other internal product engineering teams to contribute towards evolving the Roku Content Management Systems and Tools   

• Design and build data pipelines for batch, near-real-time, and real-time processing 

• Translate functional specifications into logical, component-based technical designs 

• Write and review code, evaluate architectural tradeoffs for performance and security for high performance 

• Participate in architecture discussions, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects 

• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables with limited supervision 

 

We’re excited if you have 

• Strong problem solving and analytical abilities 

• 5+ years of professional experience as Software Engineer 

• Proficiency in Java/Scala/Python   

• Strong technical competency and experience in building high-performance and cloud based scalable micro-services. 

• Experience with Microservice and event-driven architectures   

• Experience with design and implementation of modern micro-services architectures and API frameworks (REST/JSON). 

• Experience with cloud platforms: AWS (preferred), GCP, etc.  

• Experience with NoSQL data storage technologies such as Cassandra, DynamoDB, Redis, etc. as well as RDMBS like Oracle or MySQL. 

• Ability to handle periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests; strong written and verbal communication skills 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science plus 5 years of experience or equivalent; Master's degree 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.

 

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