Streaming is believing!

Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., 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.

The Role 

Do you want to help build Roku’s next-generation unified cloud-agnostic hosting platform? Are you experienced with Terraform, Kubernetes, Istio, and various observability tools? Are you interested in helping lead a multi-national team to design and create the platform? If so, this role is for you!

The central Infrastructure Engineering team (CTI) is looking for highly skilled infrastructure and software engineers to help develop and drive Roku’s service mesh hosting architecture and observability platform. Our team is responsible for building and scaling both the Platform (Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, operators, and more) and the Observability layer in order to affect Roku’s transition towards a single, unified, cloud-agnostic system where all teams speak the same infrastructure language. We are engaging across Roku’s engineering teams to migrate hundreds of workloads to our common platform, including helping augment and automate CI/CD flows. We are looking for leaders who can balance priorities, people, and technology choices and work collaboratively across teams to achieve company-impacting results.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead a UK/EU-based team of platform and observability engineers
• Be responsible for attracting and hiring the best engineers to continue evolving and expanding our team
• Help architect, design, build, deploy Roku’s next generation service mesh and cloud infrastructure.
• Join in efforts to investigate new technology and tools to be adopted by Roku. 
• Mentor team members to define and adopt new or improve existing processes and procedures. 
• Coordinate with similar US-based teams to achieve follow-the-sun development
• Collaborate with other US and UK/EU-based Roku engineering teams to affect their migrations to the Rokumesh platform and observability
• Assist with managing our team’s sprints, prioritizing the backlog, and project planning

We’re excited if you have:

• Strong hands-on experience in cloud-native technologies. AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform preferred. Knowledge of another cloud platform like GCP or Azure is a plus but not necessary.
• Experience leading a team of engineers. Multi-national team leadership not required but is a plus.
• Demonstrated understanding of overall cloud infrastructure design and developing tools to enable and automate the infrastructure.
• Experience in testing and deploying applications via modern CI/CD tools and concepts
• The drive and self-motivation to understand the intricate details of a complex infrastructure environment.
• Ability to work independently in a different time zone
• Capability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical project stakeholders.  
• Masters degree or equivalent experience (10+ years)

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.

Learn more

Roku has a global scope and footprint befitting our mission. For an overview of who we are and how we’ve grown, take a look at our fact sheet before you apply.

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