Roku
TV streaming platform
SeniorSoftwareEngineer-Devops
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“Senior Software Engineer - Devops at Roku. Skills: SRE, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Python, CI/CD, Observability, GenAI support. Write clean, maintainable Python for services, automation, and infrastructure tooling. Design, migrate and operate Kubernetes clusters (EKS / GKE) in production”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver a best-in-class user experience by simplifying complex business workflows; Enable users to focus on their customers rather than tedious processes; Build reliable, scalable systems that power Roku’s advertising business; Improve release safety, rollback mechanisms, and developer velocity
Industry & Context.
Problem-solvers
On-call ownership for production systems
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8+ years of experience in SRE, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure or Backend Engineering roles, Python proficiency for services, pipelines, and automation, Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes, Experience working with AWS or GCP, Linux systems, Networking (DNS, VPCs, routing), Distributed systems, Experience with CI/CD pipelines, monorepos, and infrastructure-as-code, Experience building or operating observability and alerting systems, Experience with Airflow or large-scale ETL/data systems, Experience supporting GenAI / ML infrastructure in production, Prior on-call ownership for production systems
Nice to Have
Kubernetes a plus
What You'll Do.
maintainable Python for services
and infrastructure tooling
migrate and operate Kubernetes clusters (EKS / GKE) in production
Lead cluster upgrades
autoscaling and capacity planning
Implement safe deployment strategies (rolling
Manage Infra as Code (Terraform or equivalent) and fully checked into version control
Operate multi-environment (dev/stage/prod) and multi-region setups on AWS and/or GCP
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for large monorepos
Support deployments for Web applications
Background workers and ETL and batch pipelines
Improve release safety
and developer velocity
Design and maintain telemetry across services using Metrics
OpenTelemetry or equivalent
Set up PagerDuty alerts
and incident response processes
Define and track SLIs
and service health indicators
Support GenAI-powered services used in Ads automation
Implement observability for LLM systems
error rates and Infrastructure-level reliability and capacity signals
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work closely with product, data, and engineering partners; Product-embedded infrastructure role; Work in a fast-paced environment where everyone is focused on the company's success rather than their own; Surround ourselves with people who are great at their jobs, who are easy to work with, and who keep their egos in check; Accomplish extraordinary things through collaboration and trust
Full Job Description
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 The Ads Customer Interfaces team builds full-stack web applications, APIs, UIs, and ETL pipelines that serve as the primary interface between Roku’s advertising platform and both internal and external customers. Our mission is to deliver a best-in-class user experience by simplifying complex business workflows, enabling users to focus on their customers rather than tedious processes. As a member of this team, you will work closely with product, data, and engineering partners to build reliable, scalable systems that power Roku’s advertising business. About the role We are seeking a Senior SRE / Platform Engineer (Infrastructure) to join the Ads Business Automation team. This is a product-embedded infrastructure role where you will actively contribute to application and ETL code while owning critical platform capabilities such as cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes environments, CI/CD systems, observability, networking, and security. This role blends software engineering, infrastructure engineering, and reliability, and is ideal for engineers who enjoy building and operating systems end-to-end as part of a product team rather than working in a centralized operatio
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