Senior Software Engineer, Subscriptions Platform
Roku · San Jose, United States · 7mo ago
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'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.
About the team
Subscriptions are a key growth area for Roku and are a significant growth path. The subscription platform is part of every step of the customer journey from product placement, purchase, renewals, and viewing experience of digital content on TV and smart home products in domestic and international markets. It also empowers our partners with real-time subscription information, ensuring customers have a smooth purchase and viewing experience. In this role, as part of the subscriptions platform team, you will envision, architect, build, and run a highly available, fault-tolerant, efficient, and performant platform that scales to billions of viewers.
About the role
In this role, you will lead the architecture and implementation of a highly available, fault‑tolerant, and performant subscriptions platform that scales to billions of viewers across AWS/GCP, owning key initiatives end‑to‑end while coding roughly 80% of the time. You’ll evaluate and adopt new technologies, design shared architectural layers (queuing, event systems, shared memory), and collaborate across Product, Engineering, QA, and Ops to deliver resilient services spanning streaming, APIs, notifications, and batch workloads. As a hands‑on technical leader, you will set engineering excellence by example, drive CI/CD automation and platform reuse, influence roadmap through cross‑team architectural discussions, and consistently turn complex requirements into reliable, well‑documented systems.
For California Only - The estimated annual salary for this position is between $186,000 - $388,000 annually. Compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, certifications, and specific geographical location.This role is eligible for health insurance, equity awards, life insurance, disability benefits, parental leave, wellness benefits, and paid time off.
What you'll be doing
- Lead the evaluation and implementation of new technologies and designs. Evaluate emerging technologies and seek innovative solutions to address existing and new challenges
- Leverage agentic AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) to accelerate development while ensuring code quality and production readiness
- Build and ship features using AI coding agents delegating implementation, reviewing output, and owning the quality of what makes it to production
- Use agentic AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) as part of your daily workflow delegating tasks to AI, reviewing and refining AI-generated code, and integrating it into production
- Engage in architectural discussions across multiple teams, influence the roadmap, and take ownership of key projects and initiatives
- Providing technical leadership and expertise to drive platform capabilities to ensure high availability and scalability
- Demonstrate engineering excellence practice by setting expectations and leading by hands-on examples
- Own building platform features, driving directly with product and other engineering teams
- Own design and implementation of shared architectural layers (e.g., queuing, event systems, shared memory clusters) and libraries that can be used across teams
- Review technical specification documents, provide feedback, and collaborate for best in class solution
- Be an evangelist for best practices across all functions – developers, QA, and infrastructure/ops
- Be an evangelist for platform innovation and reuse
- Be actively involved in code/design reviews and expected to code 80% of the time
We’re excited if you have
- 10+ years of experience in architecting, implementing, and running large-scale services, specifically in subscriptions, purchase, and billing domains
- Advanced hands-on experience with AI-assisted and agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) is required, including the ability to effectively delegate, review, and integrate AI-generated code within a production workflow
- Experience building systems of various workloads - streaming, API, notifications, batch, etc.
- Expertise in various subscription flows, including tax, payment, purchase, renewal, dunning, cancellation, repurchase, and invoicing.
- Strong architectural design experience, great track record of building a highly available and scalable subscription platform
- Strong expertise with cloud solutions/systems across cloud with AWS or GCP is a must
- Strong experience in designing and leading the implementation of highly complex transactional systems, collaborating with teams across the organization
- Strong passion for technology and adding value to the bottom line through technology
- Strong passion & expertise with automation, including building and adopting CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with multi-cloud solutions is a plus, and the ability to offer technical guidance to design, deploy, and scale applications across multiple cloud environments
- Experience integrating with various streaming and subscription platforms like Amazon, Apple, Google, and Samsung is a plus
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What's Roku's approach to hybrid working?
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.
What are some of the 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. If you require reasonable accommodation at any point in the hiring process, please direct your inquiries to EmployeeRelations@Roku.com.
What should I know about Roku's 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.
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