Roku is changing how the world watches TV
Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and we've 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, you'll make a valuable - and valued - contribution. We're 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.
Roku pioneered streaming to the TV and continues to innovate and lead the industry. While we are well-positioned to help shape the future of television – including TV advertising – around the world, continued success relies on our investment in digital services. Our team is a multi-disciplinary team responsible for the architecture and implementation of services that make up Roku's browse and discovery platform. This platform is the backbone behind The Roku Channel, offering a wide range of free and premium content and entertainment to millions of users in the US and around the world.
What is the role?We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Search & Recommendations team, building services at scale that power Roku's browse and discovery platform. This platform is the backbone behind The Roku Channel, offering a wide range of free and premium content and entertainment to millions of users globally. With so many people relying on Roku for great movies, TV, and news, scaling, reliability, fallbacks, and automation are always top of mind as the team continuously adds features to the platform. This role involves working closely with the product team to rapidly iterate on features from prototypes to A/B tests to eventual release to all users. The ideal candidate will bring strong curiosity, a global mindset paired with locally relevant execution, and the ability to respond to changing business needs. It is still early days for this platform, with plenty of challenging and interesting problems to work on.
How will I use AI at Roku?At Roku, AI agents do most of the keystroke-level coding. Engineers act as the technical leads for those agents — setting architecture, reviewing diffs, debugging failures, and validating that every change meets Roku's quality bar. If you've already shipped features where an AI agent wrote the initial code and you steered it to production, we want to talk to you.
At Roku, we're embracing AI as a powerful tool to amplify human creativity, accelerate innovation, and deliver better results across the company. You already have fluency across the agentic engineering toolchain — coding harnesses like Claude Code or Cursor, MCP servers, custom skills, or agent frameworks. And you can describe projects where these tools made you measurably faster. You know how to drive an agent, verify its output, and ramp on an unfamiliar codebase with an agent helping you.
What are the responsibilities of the role?- Build extremely large-scale platform products and services, used by Roku engineers across the company and directly by consumers across millions of devices
- Collaborate with Product and Design teams to iterate and build software, taking a concept from ideation to production deployment and support
- Lead efforts to evaluate new technologies and push for best practices across the entire development life cycle, including code and design reviews
- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Participate in Agile development processes, including scoping, technical design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance
- Leverage AI-powered development tools to accelerate coding workflows and improve engineering productivity
- Strong software development experience in Java (Python is a plus)
- Expertise in building large-scale cloud services, ideally in AWS
- Experience in the appropriate selection of data stores and analysis of trade-offs
- Experience with in-memory caching layers such as Redis, Redis Cluster, Memcached, or similar technologies
- Track record of monitoring the quality of deployments and troubleshooting production systems
- Strong knowledge of end-to-end web architecture, from end-user device to a service in a data centre
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- Demonstrated fluency across the agentic engineering toolchain — coding harnesses like Claude Code or Cursor, MCP servers, custom skills, or agentic frameworks — and can describe projects where these tools made you measurably faster
- Ability to drive an agent, validate its output, and ramp on an unfamiliar codebase with an agent helping you
Roku fosters an inclusive and collaborative environment where teams generally work in the office Monday through Thursday. Fridays are generally flexible for remote work, except for employees whose specific roles or assigned office location require five days' a week attendance.
What are some of the 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). Employees are supported in taking time off, in accordance with local leave policies and other personal needs to support their evolving work and life needs. It's 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 [email protected].
What should I know about Roku's culture?
Roku is a great place for people who want to work in a fast-paced environment where everyone is focused on the company's 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. We're independent thinkers with big ideas who act boldly, move fast and accomplish extraordinary things through collaboration and trust. In short, at Roku you'll be part of a company that's 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 isn't 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.
To learn more about Roku, our global footprint, and how we've grown, visit https://www.weareroku.com/factsheet.
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Skills Required
- Strong software development experience in Java
- Experience building large-scale cloud services, ideally using AWS
- Experience selecting data stores and analyzing trade-offs
- Experience with in-memory caching technologies such as Redis, Redis Cluster, or Memcached
- Track record monitoring deployment quality and troubleshooting production systems
- Strong knowledge of end-to-end web architecture from end-user device to data-center service
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- Fluency with agentic engineering tools, including coding harnesses, MCP servers, custom skills, or agentic frameworks
- Ability to drive AI agents, validate their output, and ramp up on unfamiliar codebases with agent assistance
- Python development experience
Roku Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Roku and has not been reviewed or approved by Roku.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is positioned as competitive across many roles, with frequent emphasis on strong base and total compensation relative to market expectations. Fair-pay perception appears comparatively stronger than overall satisfaction with the broader rewards package.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is framed as a standout, with sizable employer premium contributions that can reduce employee premiums significantly depending on plan choice. Preventive care and mental-health support are also described as part of the core offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are presented as broad, including paid holidays, PTO, and multiple leave categories such as bereavement and family-related leave. Self-managed or “unlimited” PTO is also described for many salaried roles, supporting flexibility in taking time off.
Roku Insights
What We Do
Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. We connect users to the streaming content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers with unique capabilities to engage consumers. Roku streaming players and Roku TV™ models are available around the world through direct retail sales and licensing arrangements with TV OEMs and service operators.
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