Job Overview
Location
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
May 6, 2026
Full Job Description
📋 Description
- • Senior Software Engineer leading the architecture and evolution of Roku’s observability and cloud infrastructure stack, ensuring high-performance, secure, and scalable systems across multi-region, multi-cloud environments that power thousands of services and millions of devices.
- • Day-to-day responsibilities include architecting observability platforms for metrics, logs, and traces; extending and hardening open-source systems; implementing pre-aggregation and down-sampling to reduce load; collaborating with SRE and product teams to migrate workloads and automate CI/CD; integrating security into platform services; contributing to CNCF-aligned open-source projects; and mentoring engineers on reliability, efficiency, and cost management best practices.
- • Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, with a mission to connect the entire TV ecosystem by enabling consumers, publishers, and advertisers to thrive in the streaming era. The company fosters a fast-paced, egoless culture where independent thinkers collaborate to deliver extraordinary impact through action and trust.
- • In this role, you will gain deep expertise in large-scale observability, cloud-native infrastructure, and service mesh technologies while shaping company-wide standards for OpenTelemetry and OpenMetrics. You’ll drive measurable improvements in system reliability, cost efficiency, and developer experience, positioning yourself as a technical leader in a high-impact domain at a globally recognized streaming innovator.
🎯 Requirements
- • Extensive experience with software engineering and a track record of architecting distributed systems or platforms at scale
- • Strong hands-on experience in Golang and one scripting language (e.g., Python or Shell)
- • Experience operating observability at petabyte-scale ingestion and hundreds of millions of series
- • Expertise in observability platforms and tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, ELK/OpenSearch, ClickHouse) and standards (OpenTelemetry, OpenMetrics)
- • Deep experience building systems at scale with Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio/Envoy), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and multi-cloud (AWS, GCP)
- • Proven experience integrating security into infrastructure and platform development
🏖️ Benefits
- • Global access to mental health and financial wellness support and resources
- • Comprehensive healthcare including medical, dental, and vision coverage
- • Retirement options such as 401(k) or pension plans
- • Flexible hybrid work model: in-office Monday through Thursday, with flexible remote work on Fridays
- • Support for time off in accordance with local leave policies and personal needs
- • Reasonable accommodations provided for applicants of all backgrounds during the hiring process
Skills & Technologies
About Roku, Inc.
Roku, Inc. is a pioneer in streaming technology. The company provides a platform for users to discover and watch TV, movies, and other video content through its streaming devices and smart TV operating system. Roku's business model is driven by hardware sales, advertising revenue generated on its platform, and content distribution partnerships. It operates in the consumer electronics and digital advertising industries, offering a wide range of streaming players and smart TVs that enable access to thousands of channels and apps. Roku's ecosystem facilitates content discovery and viewing for millions of users worldwide.
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