Software Engineer, Ad Serving
17 hours ago
New York
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 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. About the Team A highly scalable, highly available, real-time advertising platform is critical to support and grow Roku's ad business. It is the mission of the Ad Engineering Team to build this platform. We are hiring a Software Engineer to be a vital part of this mission. If you bring extensive experience building complex systems, love great technology at scale, enjoy mentoring, jumping in, and figuring things out in any system, this role is for you! About the Role Roku pioneered TV streaming and continues to innovate and lead the industry. The Roku Channel has us well-positioned to help shape the future of streaming. Continued success relies on investing in Advertising Engineering. The ideal candidate will have endless curiosity and can pair a global mindset with locally relevant execution. The successful candidate will display a balance of hard and soft skills, including the ability to respond quickly to changing business needs. For New York Only - The estimated annual salary for this position is between $126,000 - $318,000 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. What you'll be doing: • Work alongside a highly skilled engineering team to design, develop, and maintain large scale, highly performing, real-time applications, • Own building features, driving directly with product and other engineering teams, • Demonstrate excellent communication skills in working with technical and non-technical audiences, • Be an evangelist for best practices across all functions - developers, QA, and infrastructure/ops, • Be an evangelist for platform innovation and reuse, • Deliver top-quality software in a timely fashion We're excited if you have:, • 4 - 8 years of experience building large scale and low latency distributed systems, • B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent, • Command of Java or C++, • Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, performance optimization techniques, object-oriented programming, multi-threading, and real-time programming, • Experience with distributed caching, SQL/NO SQL, and other databases is a plus, • Experience with Big Data and cloud services such as AWS/GCP is a plus, • Experience in advertising domain a big plus, • Self-motivated individual with a high level of accountability and ownership, • Critical thinking and practical decision making, • Can do, results-oriented mindset, • Nonpolitical, collaborative, and team oriented, • Desire to win in a highly competitive industry Roku is committed to offering a diverse range of benefits as part of our compensation package to support our employees and their families. 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