Software Engineer, Golang/Python in Manchester

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 have 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 will make a valuable - and valued - contribution. We are 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: Our team’s mission is to build technology that supports and helps grow a sustainable advertising business. We own server-side services, data, tools, and cloud services that power Roku’s advertising capabilities. The Advertising Engineering team is looking for a Software Engineer with experience building large-scale, low-latency distributed services and data pipelines to improve delivery, performance, and reliability across our advertising systems.

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 building products and services that deliver relevant experiences and measurable outcomes for customers and partners. In this role, you will design, build, and operate software that supports advertising delivery and associated data flows. You will work closely with engineering peers, product partners, and business stakeholders to clarify requirements, make well-reasoned trade-offs, and deliver improvements iteratively. You enjoy learning and improving systems over time, and you balance near-term delivery with long-term maintainability.

What you’ll be doing:

• Design and develop large-scale, low-latency systems to optimise advertising delivery and related user experiences.
• Design, develop, and maintain large-scale data applications and data pipelines.
• Build and maintain full-stack features, contributing to both backend services and UI components as needed.
• Improve reliability through monitoring, automation, and operational best practices, including clear observability and well-documented operational procedures.
• Partner with product and business stakeholders to define, build, and maintain features and components.
• Ramp quickly on unfamiliar systems, domains, or technologies as our stack and needs evolve.

We’re excited if you have:

• 3-5 years of professional experience building and supporting backend services in production, with attention to reliability, performance, and operational readiness.
• Experience designing or contributing to distributed systems (e.g., service-oriented architectures, event-driven systems, or microservices).
• Proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language such as Java, Go or Python.
• Ability to communicate clearly with partner teams to define requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver iteratively.
• Experience deploying services on Kubernetes and using infrastructure tooling such as Helm and/or Terraform.
• Experience with streaming and batch data processing technologies such as Kafka, Kafka Streams, Flink, Spark Streaming, or Spark.
• Experience working with large-scale data platforms and storage systems (e.g., Hadoop, Hive, Spark, and/or NoSQL data stores).
• Experience building or operating data pipelines (batch and/or streaming).

Our Hybrid Work Approach: Roku fosters an inclusive and collaborative environment where teams work in the office Monday through Thursday. Fridays are flexible for remote work except for employees whose roles are required to be in the office five days a week or employees who are in offices with a five-day in-office policy.

Benefits: 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). Our employees can take time off work for vacation and other personal reasons to balance 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.

Accommodations: 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.

The Roku Culture: 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.