Roku

TV streaming platform

SeniorSoftwareEngineer,VideoPlatform

Bengaluru, India Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Senior Software Engineer, Video Platform at Roku. Skills: Video Platform Engineering, video services, video ingestion, encoding, VoD/live-linear, Server Side Ads Insertion, Video QoS, high-quality streaming TV experience, design and implement highly scalable, and reliable web-scale applications, technical contributor to the design and implementation of core software backend components of video services platform, evaluate architectural tradeoffs for performance and security for high-performance, ”

What You'll Achieve.

delight millions of TV streamers around the world; deliver a high-quality streaming TV experience at a global scale; delivering a best-in-class streaming TV experience across all Roku devices; impact millions of Roku users around the world; accomplish extraordinary things

Industry & Context.

TV streaming platform
Problems you'll solve

problem-solving and analytical abilities; gritty problem solver; problem-solvers

Eligibility Requirements

Ability to handle periodic on-call duty, out-of-band written and verbal communication skills

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years of solid programming experience in Java core libraries, developing web server applications, object-oriented design and design patterns, building high-performance and cloud-based scalable micro-services, design and implementation of modern micro-services architectures and API frameworks (REST/JSON), web servers such as Apache, Tomcat, building and deploying services on AWS cloud, NoSQL data storage technologies such as Cassandra, DynamoDB, Redis, etc., RDMBS like Oracle or MySQL, Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science plus 8 years of experience or Master's degree

Nice to Have

Domain expertise in the area of Over-the-Top Video delivery technologies, On-Demand/Live streaming, DRM, encoding, delivery, CDNs etc.

What You'll Do.

building the next-generation video services for the Roku Cloud TV Platform

work on key video services projects around video ingestion

Server Side Ads Insertion

deliver a best-in-class streaming TV experience across all Roku devices

Design and implement highly scalable

and reliable web-scale applications

Translate functional specifications into logical

component-based technical designs

Key technical contributor to the design and implementation of core software backend components of video services platform

Write and review code

evaluate architectural tradeoffs for performance and security for high-performance

and high-concurrency video infrastructure applications

Collaborate with other engineering groups across the company towards supporting our video services initiatives

Manage individual project priorities

deadlines and deliverables with limited supervision

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate with key product engineering stakeholders across Roku engineering teams; Collaborate with other engineering groups across the company; collaboration and trust

Communication Scope

written and verbal communication skills

Process & Methodology

Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables with limited supervision, drive programs with the product and commercial teams within Roku and across external strategic partner organisations

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 You will be part of the Roku Video Platform Engineering team and responsible for building the next-generation video services for the Roku Cloud TV Platform. 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 the Roku Cloud TV Platform, so we deliver a high-quality streaming TV experience at a global scale. In this role, you will work on key video services projects around video ingestion, encoding, VoD/live-linear, Server Side Ads Insertion, and Video QoS, with the goal of delivering a best-in-class streaming TV experience across all Roku devices. The projects that you will work on will impact millions of Roku users around the world. All along, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with key product engineering stakeholders across Roku engineering teams, and lead the design of our video services platform. The ideal candidate will have endless curiosity and can pair a global mindset with locally relevant execution. You should be a gritty problem solver and self-starter who can drive programs with

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