Senior Software Engineer Data and Backend Services
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21 hours ago
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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
The Advertising Engineering is a group of highly skilled technologists building innovative platform products and services that enable over 100M users and streaming devices. We connect users to the streaming content they love and empower publishers to build and monetize large audiences. Our work spans a range of critical services that power the Roku advertising ecosystem including marketing sales backend operations campaign management and revenue reconciliation.
Within this the Ads Customer Interfaces team develops full-stack web applications with UI services and data layers that provide a unified interface to Rokus suite of advertising products. Our mission is to deliver a best-in-class user experience for internal and external advertising products simplifying tasks while delighting users.
About the role
We are seeking a Python backend and Data Engineer and this role sits at the heart of Rokus advertising business. The systems you build directly impact revenue execution campaign quality operational efficiency and advertiser experience. Youll have the opportunity to influence architecture product direction and engineering culture while working on problems at real scale.
What youll be doing
- Design develop and maintain Python-based backend and data services supporting advertising platforms
- Build scalable APIs and services that support both internal advertising workflows and external customer-facing needs
- Develop and maintain data pipelines (batch and near-real-time) for ingestion transformation and enrichment
- Ensure data quality consistency and reliability across distributed systems
- Collaborate with product managers data engineers and downstream consumers to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Design services that support analytics reporting automation and machine learning use cases
- Improve system architecture for scalability fault tolerance and operational excellence
- Implement monitoring alerting and observability for data and backend services
- Participate in code reviews design reviews and on-call rotations
- Support GenAI-powered services and Agentic AI workflows by enabling reliable data access and orchestration
Required Qualifications Requirements
- 8 years of software development experience with strong hands-on experience in Python
- Experience building backend services and APIs in Python
- Strong understanding of data modeling data processing and distributed systems
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases data stores and schema design
- Experience building or supporting data pipelines (ETL/ELT batch streaming or hybrid)
- Familiarity with asynchronous processing messaging systems and event-driven architectures
- Experience operating production systems with high reliability and scale
- Strong problem-solving skills and comfort working in ambiguous fast-paced environments
- Familiarity with analytics reporting and measurement systems
- Exposure to machine learning pipelines feature stores or AI/GenAI systems
- Experience with cloud-native platforms and infrastructure
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
Our Hybrid Work Approach
Roku fosters an inclusive and collaborative environment where teams work in the office Monday through Thursday. Fridays are flexible for remote work except for employees whose roles are required to be in the office five days a week or employees who are in offices with a five day in office policy.
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.
Accommodations
Roku welcomes applicants of all backgrounds and provides reasonable accommodations and adjustments in accordance with applicable law. If you require reasonable accommodation at any point in the hiring process please direct your inquiries to .
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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- OOP
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- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
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