Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Services
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Job Location:
San Jose, CA - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 400000 - 500000
Posted on:
25-10-2025
Vacancies:
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.
About the team
For California Only - The estimated annual salary for this position is between $400000 - $500000 annually. Compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate including but not limited to skill set certifications and specific geographical location. This role is eligible for health insurance equity awards life insurance disability benefits parental leave wellness benefits and paid time off.
About the role
As part of this exercise you will have the opportunity to design and build a highly scalable performant and resilient systemone that could significantly influence Rokus future growth trajectory. This challenge will allow you to demonstrate your ability to architect solutions that operate at scale leverage modern cloud technologies and embody best practices in distributed systems design. Youll work with cutting-edge tools and frameworks to craft microservices optimize cloud deployments and ensure system reliability all while contributing to the evolution of Rokus technology ecosystem and its ability to deliver exceptional user experiences worldwide.
What youll be doing
- Lead the evaluation and implementation of new technologies and designs
- Evaluate emerging technologies and seek innovative solutions to address existing and new challenges
- Engage in architectural discussions across multiple teams influence the roadmap and take ownership of key projects and initiatives
- Providing technical leadership and expertise to drive platform capabilities to ensure high availability and scalability
- Demonstrate engineering excellence practice by setting expectations and leading by hands-on examples
- Own building platform features driving directly with product and other engineering teams
- Review technical specification documents created by the development team and mentor team members
- Own design and implementation of shared architectural layers (e.g. queuing event systems shared memory clusters) and libraries that can be used across teams
- Be an evangelist for best practices across all functions developers QA and infrastructure/ops
- Be an evangelist for platform innovation and reuse
- Be actively involved in code/design reviews but expected to code 70% of the time
Were excited if you have
- 15 years of experience in large-scale backend services specifically within payment system architecture and implementation or related professional industry experience
- A good understanding of various payment flows including payment processing card tokenization payment gateway integration and token vault management is required.
- Good understanding of different payment processing flows such as sync vs async and online vs offline.
- Familiar with different compliance standards such as SOX PCI 3DS etc.
- Experience with the RFP (Request for Proposal) Process proven ability to translate business needs to vendor requirements performance of deep technical evaluation on 3rd parties vendors and helping businesses select the right vendor to scale with the company.
- Strong architectural design experience and a proven track record of building a highly available scalable payment platform.
- Experience with multi-cloud solutions is a plus as is the ability to provide technical guidance for designing deploying and scaling applications across multiple cloud environments.
- Strong expertise with cloud solutions/systems across the cloud with AWS or GCP is a must.
- Strong experience in designing and leading highly complex transactional systems
- Strong passion for technology and adding value to the bottom line through technology
- Strong expertise in Payments and billing systems is required
- Strong passion & expertise in building and adopting CI/CD pipelines
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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
