Senior Software Engineer, Observability
Senior Software Engineer, Observability
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Job Description
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 weve 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 youll make a valuable - and valued - contribution. Were 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 Observability team is part of Rokus Cloud Technology Infrastructure organisation and plays a critical role in ensuring that the services and workloads running on our platform are equipped with robust observability capabilities. We are a high-performing fast-moving international team that thrives on taking ownership communicating effectively and iterating quickly to deliver impactful engineering solutions.
Our mission is to advance Rokus observability platform which operates at an impressive scale by ingesting terabytes of data daily and managing hundreds of millions of active series. We work closely with the Platform team to ensure seamless integration and operation of services running on our cloud platform. Together we build and scale both the foundational infrastructure (Kubernetes Istio Envoy operators and more) and the observability layer (leveraging OSS/CNCF-supported observability projects).
Our focus is on making the observability platform more performant feature-rich and tailored to Rokus needs while driving innovation to empower and support our internal teams. We take pride in delivering solutions that make it easier for engineering teams across Roku to monitor debug and optimise their applications effectively all while fostering a culture of collaboration ownership and continuous improvement.
What sets us apart is our results-driven culture rooted in ownership accountability and fast iteration. We prioritise solving meaningful engineering problems over process for processs sake focusing our time and energy on high-impact work. Collaboration and open communication are core to how we operateideas are shared freely and decisions are made with purpose. Were continuously improving not just in the systems we build but in how we grow and work as a team.
About the Role
As a Tech Lead on Rokus Observability team you will take ownership of a platform that ingests terabytes of telemetry data daily and supports hundreds of millions of active time series. This role offers the opportunity to lead engineering efforts that directly impact the stability performance and usability of our observability stack. Youll drive the technical direction for integrating open-source observability tools at scale standardise monitoring practices across teams and collaborate closely with platform and application engineers to ensure seamless efficient and tailored solutions. Your work will include building automation to simplify onboarding contributing to the CNCF ecosystem and delivering high-quality scalable infrastructure that empowers developers across Roku. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who thrives in a fast-moving environment and is passionate about solving complex challenges with clarity and purpose.
What Youll Be Doing
- Scaling and Innovating: Enhance and optimise Rokus observability stack to handle terabytes of data daily and hundreds of millions of active series while introducing Roku-specific features and innovations.
- Tooling and Standardisation: Work with the Platform team to identify standardise and improve observability tools as part of a cohesive solution.
- Stability and Performance: Invest in making the observability platform more stable performant and reliable for all users.
- Open Source Contributions: Contribute new open-source tools and improvements back to the CNCF ecosystem.
- Automation and Usability: Build automation around observability tools to simplify onboarding for developers (dashboards alerts traces etc.).
- Collaboration and Engagement: Partner with engineering teams to build solutions that assist in a better out of the box experience and drive innovation.
Were Excited If You Have
- Extensive Experience: 8 years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering and/or DevOps with a focus on observability platforms.
- Large-Scale Expertise: Proven experience designing and operating observability platforms that process massive amounts of data (metrics logs and traces) to provide actionable insights.
- Tool Mastery: Expertise in deploying and operating open-source observability tools at scale such as Prometheus Grafana Thanos Loki Tempo or similar solutions like Cortex Mimir or the ELK stack.
- Standards Knowledge: Familiarity with open standards like OpenTelemetry OpenTracing and OpenMetrics.
- Kubernetes & Istio: Deep understanding of Kubernetes and Istio architectures and the ability to contribute improvements for scalability and integration.
- Collaboration Skills: Strong ability to engage with customers and stakeholders to deliver tailored observability solutions.
- Cloud Expertise: Hands-on experience with AWS GCP and/or Azure.
- Development Proficiency: 4 years of experience with programming languages such as Go Python or similar. While we primarily use Go we welcome experience with other languages if youre open to focusing on Go in this role.
- Education: B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent experience.
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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). Our employees can take time off work for vacation and other personal reasons to balance their evolving work and life needs. Its 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.
The Roku Culture
Roku is a great place for people who want to work in a fast-paced environment where everyone is focused on the companys 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. Were independent thinkers with big ideas who act boldly move fast and accomplish extraordinary things through collaboration and short at Roku youll be part of a company thats 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 isnt 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.
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Required Experience:
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Employment Type
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