Senior Software Engineer - Service mesh
Roku · Posted Sep 15
TV streaming platform, hardware devices, operating system, and digital advertising services
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About the role
The central Infrastructure Engineering team at Roku is looking for highly skilled infrastructure and software engineers to help develop and drive Roku’s service mesh hosting architecture. The team is responsible for building and scaling the Platform (Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, operators, and more) to affect Roku’s transition towards a single, unified, cloud-agnostic system, and migrating hundreds of workloads while augmenting and automating CI/CD flows. This role will architect, design, build, and deploy Roku’s next-generation service mesh and cloud infrastructure in collaboration with Observability and SRE teams.
What you will do
- Help architect, design, build, deploy Roku’s next generation service mesh and cloud infrastructure.
- Contribute to evolving our deployments by building solutions using Docker, Kubernetes, Istio/Envoy, and Terraform.
- Join in efforts to investigate new technology and tools to be adopted by Roku.
- Help build and integrate security as part of the infrastructure.
- Collaborate on internal customer engagements as we migrate workloads to Kubernetes + Istio + open-source observability tools and technologies.
- Work closely with the Observability team to integrate and scale existing and new observability tools as part of a holistic solution.
- Work closely with the SRE team to maintain availability of our services and improve onboarding workflows.
- Mentor other team members to define and adopt new or improve existing processes and procedures.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Strong hands-on experience in cloud technologies. AWS, ECS, and Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS or other) preferred. Knowledge of another cloud platform like GCP or Azure is a plus but not required.
- Demonstrated understanding of overall infrastructure design and developing tools to enable and automate the infrastructure.
- Experienced with a high-level scripting language (such as Python) and a system programming language (such as Go).
- Strong experience with Kubernetes.
- Production experience in testing and deploying applications via modern CI/CD tools and concepts
- Familiarity with Observability tools like Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, Grafana, etc.
- The drive and self-motivation to understand the intricate details of a complex infrastructure environment.
- Ability to work independently.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical project stakeholders.
- Master’s degree or equivalent experience (8+ years)
- You have either tried Gen AI in your previous work or outside of work or are curious about Gen AI and have explored it.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with integrating AI tools for improving processes and reducing toil is a plus.
Benefits and support
- 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.
- 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.
- Roku welcomes applicants of all backgrounds and provides reasonable accommodations and adjustments in accordance with applicable law.
About Roku
Roku pioneered television streaming and provides the leading TV streaming platform built on the proprietary Roku OS. The company connects consumers to entertainment, allows publishers to build and monetize audiences, and offers advertisers powerful tools to engage viewers across streaming devices and smart TVs.
- Industry
- Consumer Electronics
- Company size
- 3,600 employees
- Founded
- 2002
- Location
- San Jose, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $214M raised
- 2008-02-01Series A$8.36M
- 2016-01-28Series G$45.5M
Leadership
Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer
President, Roku Media
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
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