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Position summary
Senior Software Engineer, Build Systems
The revolution won’t be televised. It will be streamed. Want to help us build it?
Roku is changing how the world watches TV
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 with unique capabilities to engage consumers.
From your first day at Roku, you’ll 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 role
Roku is looking for an experienced Sr. Software Engineer, Build Systems to join the Developer Experience Team. The team supports Roku’s embedded software engineers across the globe. Hundreds of software engineers, rapidly growing every month.
Roku Firmware is a Linux-based system that runs on millions of regularly updated devices in the field. As we continue to grow our diverse product offering and install base, our challenge is to keep Roku Firmware maintainable, portable, and high quality, while adding new features and supporting new hardware offerings. To achieve this, we must evolve and maintain strong device portability abstractions, system modularity and a component-based build system. The component-based build system is critical to our success to fully empower our developers and maximize developer efficiency and velocity.
We are in the process of converting our existing platform builds to a new component-based build system. We are looking for expertise in embedded cross-compilation to assist us in this transition.
What you will be doing
- Participate in the re-architecture and modernization of the Roku Firmware build system to support modularization.
- Demonstrate excellence in build system development.
- Work both independently and in small groups to deliver build improvements on time.
- Debug build issues with an eye to optimizing performance and improving product quality.
We’re excited if you have
- 7+ years of experience preferred in embedded cross-platform Linux based product builds.
- 5+ years of experience organizing and refactoring complex C/C++ and Python projects with multiple embedded toolchains
- Experience with Make
- Experience with Git and Docker.
- Experience modernizing build systems
- Familiarity with tools like OE, BitBake, CMake, Buildroot, Ninja is a great plus.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
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What are Roku perks and benefits
Elder care
Networking
Unconscious bias training
Diversity recruiting
Paid maternity
Paid paternity
Unpaid maternity
Unpaid paternity
Paid adoptive
Short term disability
About the company
From your first day at Roku, you'll make a valuable — and valued — contribution. As a relatively small and fast-growing public company, we offer you an unrivaled opportunity to delight millions of TV streamers around the world, while gaining a variety of rich experiences across disciplines.
We don’t take ourselves too seriously, but we are serious about winning. That’s why we’re America’s No. 1 TV streaming platform, successfully competing with companies many times our size. Whether you’re a software engineer or data scientist, an ad executive or marketer, a finance or HR expert, or any ...