Senior Software Engineer – Live & VOD Video Infrastructure at Roku | San Jose, CA | $285K/yr – $345K/yr

Roku

Senior Software Engineer – Live & VOD Video Infrastructure

San Jose, CA (Hybrid)

$285K/yr – $345K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end streaming infrastructure for live and on-demand video, focusing on scalable data pipelines, real-time ingestion, encoding, and resilient delivery across cloud environments.

Design and optimize large-scale data-stream pipelines for Live and VOD in AWS/GCP.
Build high-throughput, low-latency containerized services for ingestion, decoding, transcoding, packaging, transport, and ad markers management.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Design, build, optimize, and maintain large-scale data-stream pipelines for Live and VOD video encoding workflows running in cloud environments such as AWS or GCP
Develop high-throughput, low-latency containerized services for video ingestion, decoding, transcoding, packaging, transport, delivery, and ad avail markers management
Architect systems capable of consuming 24/7 video and audio streams from thousands of providers in real time
Design resilient worker-to-worker streaming and transport mechanisms capable of handling network instability, packet loss, retransmission, and continuous data flow at scale
Build scalable orchestration and container-management systems supporting autoscaling, fault tolerance, service recovery, and rolling deployments
Develop advanced real-time monitoring, telemetry, logging, and alerting systems to provide operational visibility and rapid failure detection

Requirements

Hands-on software development, including writing new code and maintaining existing codebases across critical video infrastructure.
Deep experience in backend systems engineering.
Strong programming skills in one or more: Go, Java, Rust, C, C++, or Python.
Experience building distributed backend systems and cloud-native infrastructure at scale.
Experience with media frameworks and libraries such as GStreamer, FFmpeg, MediaMTX, or similar technologies.
Experience with GPU-accelerated encoding or hardware media pipelines.
Familiarity with Kubernetes, ECS, Nomad, or other orchestration platforms.
Experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, or Datadog.
Experience debugging networking issues, packet loss, transport instability, and distributed system failures in real-time streaming environments.
Experience with high-throughput data streams and real-time processing.
Experience with cloud environments such as AWS or GCP (as referenced in pipelines).

Preferred

Experience building distributed backend systems and cloud-native infrastructure at scale
Deep understanding of container orchestration, worker lifecycle management, autoscaling, resiliency, and cloud infrastructure patterns
Experience designing systems that continuously process high-throughput data streams with strict reliability and uptime requirements
Experience debugging networking issues, packet loss, transport instability, and distributed system failures in real-time streaming environments
Strong programming skills in one or more of: Go, Java, Rust, C, C++, or Python
Hands-on experience with media frameworks and libraries such as GStreamer, FFmpeg, MediaMTX, or similar technologies
Experience with GPU-accelerated encoding or hardware media pipelines
Familiarity with Kubernetes, ECS, Nomad, or other orchestration platforms
Experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, or Datadog
Experience building fault-tolerant ingest or transcoding platforms operating across multiple regions

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).
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.
Accommodations Roku welcomes applicants of all backgrounds and provides reasonable accommodations and adjustments in accordance with applicable law.

Roku

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With the #1 platform for streaming television in the U.S., Roku wants to revolutionize the way the world watches TV. Our Roku-branded TVs, Roku TV models, Smart Home system, streaming players, audio equipment, and the purpose-built operating system that powers it all can turn any home into a home theater, with seamless integration of hardware and software. Our commitment to our users extends to our brand studio, which creates innovative Roku Originals exclusively for The Roku Channel, a free channel that reaches approximately 80 million households in the U.S. and Mexico. Join us and you'll have the chance to delight millions of TV streamers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines. Be a part of shaping the future of streaming at weareroku.com.

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