Senior Software Engineer – Observability (Golang)
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Posted on:
09-10-2025
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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.
Are you passionate about building scalable high-performance systems that process massive amounts of data Do you thrive on designing and implementing innovative solutions to empower engineering teams with actionable insights Are you excited to advance open-source observability at a massive scale Join us to extend (open source) observability tools and build new capabilities that help teams manage data better and get actionable insights.
About the Team
The Observability team is part of Rokus Cloud Technology Infrastructure organisation and plays a critical role in our platform. We are a high-performing fast-moving international team that thrives on ownership effective communication and delivering 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. As part of this mission we focus on building scalable performant systems to meet Rokus unique needs. By leveraging open-source tools CNCF-supported projects and custom solutions we enable engineering teams across Roku to monitor debug and optimize their applications with ease.
What sets us apart is our results-driven culture rooted in ownership accountability and fast iteration. We prioritize solving meaningful engineering problems fostering collaboration and continuously improving how we work as a team.
About the Role
You will work on core observability systems (metrics logs traces) while also developing robust data pipelines and storage solutions optimized for high throughput performance and cost. Youll leverage technologies such as time-series databases (TSDB) columnar storage formats (e.g. Parquet) and distributed data processing frameworks to advance the platforms capabilities. Collaboration with cross-functional teams will be critical as youll integrate observability into Rokus cloud-native stack and contribute improvements back to the open-source community.
- Extend and integrate open-source observability systems and when needed structurally overhaul core components such as storage layers and query paths to improve performance reliability and usability of these tools at scale.
- Build services to improve performance usability reliability and cost efficiency.
- Implement features like pre-aggregation downsampling and sampling to reduce load and accelerate queries.
- Create developer-facing capabilities for metrics logs and traces usage data quality and cost management.
- Automate onboarding dashboards alerting and tracing.
- Collaborate across platform and infrastructure teams to integrate observability into Rokus cloud-native stack.
What Were Looking For
- Extensive experience in software engineering building distributed high-throughput systems or observability platforms.
- Hands on Go experience; our observability ecosystem is Go-based making it the most effective language for this role.
- Experience with or strong interest in observability tools (Prometheus Grafana Loki Tempo ELK/OpenSearch Clickhouse) and standards (OpenTelemetry OpenTracing OpenMetrics).
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and data models
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS GCP Azure).
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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:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- AWS
- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
