Senior Manager , Software Engineering - Data

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><h2 style="font-family: GothamBold,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #662d91;">Teamwork makes the stream work.</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3 style="font-family: GothamBold,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><strong>Roku is changing how the world watches TV</strong></h3> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p></div><p>&nbsp;</p> <h3 class="mt-6 mb-2 font-semibold text-xl" data-streamdown="heading-3"><span class="font-semibold" data-streamdown="strong">What does the team work on?</span></h3> <p class="text-neutral-900 dark:text-neutral-200 my-2.5 last:mb-0 first:mt-0 ">Our team's mission is to build cutting-edge advertising technology to support and help grow sustainable advertising business. The team owns server technologies, reporting infrastructure, data, cloud services, and test engineering for the advertising platforms within Roku. We also work closely with internal and external customers to help them achieve their advertising goals.</p> <h3 class="mt-6 mb-2 font-semibold text-xl" data-streamdown="heading-3"><span class="font-semibold" data-streamdown="strong">What is the role?</span></h3> <p class="text-neutral-900 dark:text-neutral-200 my-2.5 last:mb-0 first:mt-0 ">We are looking for an experienced manager to help grow the team, manage priorities, and communicate with stakeholders in an effective way. The role requires excellent communication skills in addition to a strong engineering background. The ideal candidate will have endless curiosity and can pair a global mindset with locally relevant execution. You should be a gritty problem solver and self-starter who can drive programs with the product and commercial teams within Roku and across external strategic partner organizations. The successful candidate will display a balance of hard and soft skills, including the ability to respond quickly to changing business needs.</p> <h3 class="mt-6 mb-2 font-semibold text-xl" data-streamdown="heading-3"><span class="font-semibold" data-streamdown="strong">How will I use AI at Roku?</span></h3> <p data-renderer-start-pos="14931" data-local-id="fd08136e2d75"></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="14931" data-local-id="fd08136e2d75">At Roku, we don’t just use AI, we work with it. AI agents and smart tools help power drafts, analysis, and repetitive workflows, while our people bring direction, judgment, and accountability. We’re looking for curious, adaptable builders who can show how they’ve used AI or automation to move faster, raise the bar, and scale their impact.&nbsp;</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="15274" data-local-id="195040e56241">We value<strong data-renderer-mark="true"> </strong>your AI skills if you have built fluency across the agentic engineering toolchain — coding harnesses like Claude Code or Cursor, <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text"><span class="_kqswh2mm"><span class="_5pioz8co _189e1dm9 _1il9buyh _19lc184f _d0altlke" data-testid="definition-highlighter">MCP</span></span></span> servers, custom skills, or agent frameworks. And you can describe projects where you shipped real work with these tools. You know how to drive an agent, verify its output, and ramp on an unfamiliar codebase with an agent helping you.<br><br></p> <h3 class="mt-6 mb-2 font-semibold text-xl" data-streamdown="heading-3"><span class="font-semibold" data-streamdown="strong">What are the responsibilities of the role?</span></h3> <ul class="list-inside list-disc whitespace-normal [li_&amp;]:pl-6" data-streamdown="unordered-list"> <li class="py-1 [&amp;>p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Help grow the engineering team</li> <li class="py-1 [&amp;>p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Build scalable, resilient, and performant distributed systems for data processing, reporting and analytics</li> <li class="py-1 [&amp;>p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Work across engineering teams, data science, and product management to influence the direction of work and architecture</li> <li class="py-1 [&amp;>p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Communicate with internal stakeholders to inform and influence requirements and delivery</li> <li class="py-1 [&amp;>p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Take complete ownership of impactful initiatives and make pragmatic technical decisions</li> <li class="py-1 [&amp;>p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Stakeholder management, developing good understanding of advertising business needs, building domain knowledge to understand systems and data better</li> </ul> <h3 class="mt-6 mb-2 font-semibold text-xl" data-streamdown="heading-3"><span class="font-semibold" data-streamdown="strong">What experience would help someone be successful in this role at Roku?</span></h3> <ul class="list-inside list-disc whitespace-normal [li_&amp;]:pl-6" data-streamdown="unordered-list"> <li class="py-1 [&amp;>p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">15+ years engineering experience working with modern big data technologies: Spark, Airflow, Scala, Java python, relational databases and related technologies</li> <li class="py-1 [&amp;>p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">6+ years' experience leading technical teams and large-scale data processing systems</li> <li class="py-1 [&amp;>p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Experience building, growing an