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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.
Our team's mission is to build cutting-edge advertising technology to support and help grow sustainable advertising business. The team owns server technologies, reporting infrastructure, data, cloud services, and test engineering for the advertising platforms within Roku. We also work closely with internal and external customers to help them achieve their advertising goals.
We are looking for an experienced manager to help grow the team, manage priorities, and communicate with stakeholders in an effective way. The role requires excellent communication skills in addition to a strong engineering background. 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 the product and commercial teams within Roku and across external strategic partner organizations. The successful candidate will display a balance of hard and soft skills, including the ability to respond quickly to changing business needs.
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Help grow the engineering team
Build scalable, resilient, and performant distributed systems for data processing, reporting and analytics
Work across engineering teams, data science, and product management to influence the direction of work and architecture
Communicate with internal stakeholders to inform and influence requirements and delivery
Take complete ownership of impactful initiatives and make pragmatic technical decisions
Stakeholder management, developing good understanding of advertising business needs, building domain knowledge to understand systems and data better
15+ years engineering experience working with modern big data technologies: Spark, Airflow, Scala, Java python, relational databases and related technologies
6+ years' experience leading technical teams and large-scale data processing systems
Experience building, growing and managing teams
Subject matter expertise in advertising and data processing
Solid understanding of data engineering, big data technologies, analytics and data science
Strong communication skills
Self-motivated individual with a high level of accountability and ownership
Critical thinker and practical decision maker
Can do, results-oriented mindset
Nonpolitical, collaborative, and team oriented
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 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.
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 EmployeeRelations@Roku.com.
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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Streaming platform and device maker powering smart TVs and set-top boxes, with thousands of free and premium entertainment channels.
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