Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

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><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 Cloud Compute Platform Engineering team is at the heart of Roku's transformation toward a single, unified platform. We design and scale Kubernetes clusters, service mesh architecture, and supporting systems to ensure all engineering teams speak the same infrastructure language. We partner with internal teams to migrate workloads, enhance CI/CD pipelines, and integrate observability and security into every layer of the stack. Collaboration and impact are core to what we do.</p> <h3 class="mt-6 mb-2 font-semibold text-xl" data-streamdown="heading-3">&nbsp;</h3> <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 ">Join us in building Roku's next-generation cloud-agnostic platform that powers Kubernetes and service mesh at scale. If you're passionate about designing resilient infrastructure, automating deployments, and enabling hundreds of workloads across multiple regions, this role is for you. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, Terraform, modern observability stacks and collaborate with teams worldwide to deliver a unified hosting experience. If you're passionate about deep platform and infrastructure engineering, solving complex scaling challenges, and enabling teams through elegant, automated solutions—this role is for you.</p> <h3 class="mt-6 mb-2 font-semibold text-xl" data-streamdown="heading-3">&nbsp;</h3> <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 class="text-neutral-900 dark:text-neutral-200 my-2.5 last:mb-0 first:mt-0 ">At Roku, AI agents do most of the keystroke-level coding. Engineers act as the technical leads for those agents — setting context, planning work, verifying outputs, and recovering when the agent goes off course. If you are excited about working this way, we want to talk to you.</p> <p class="text-neutral-900 dark:text-neutral-200 my-2.5 last:mb-0 first:mt-0 ">At Roku, we're embracing AI as a powerful tool to amplify human creativity, accelerate innovation, and deliver better results for our customers. Across teams, we're exploring how AI can enhance our work—and we're only looking for people who are curious, adaptable, and excited to grow alongside these technologies.</p> <h3 class="mt-6 mb-2 font-semibold text-xl" data-streamdown="heading-3">&nbsp;</h3> <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">Architect, design, and deploy Roku's next-generation cloud platform and service mesh</li> <li class="py-1 [&amp;>p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Build and own solutions to Roku's compute problems using Docker, Kubernetes, Istio/Envoy, Terraform and scripting to evolve our tech stack and deployments</li> <li class="py-1 [&amp;>p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Proactively drive the research and implementation of new technologies to enhance scalability, reliability, and developer experience</li> <li class="py-1 [&amp;>p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Integrate security best practices into infrastructure design and automation</li> <li class="py-1 [&amp;>p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Build tooling to visualize inefficiencies and optimize costs across shared-tenancy clusters, including network traffic insights, cross-cluster communication efficiency, and cost attribution</li> <li class="py-1 [&amp;>p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Collaborate with internal teams to migrate workloads to Kubernetes + Istio, leveraging open-source observability tools</li> <li class="py-1 [&amp;>p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Work closely with the Observability team to scale monitoring and logging solutions for a holistic view of the platform</li> <li class="py-1 [&amp;>p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Leverage SRE principles to maintain high availability and streamline onboarding workflows</li> <li class="py-1 [&amp;>p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Mentor team members and help define best practices for infrastructure and automation</li> </ul> <h3 class="mt-6 mb-2 font-semibold text-xl" data-streamdown="heading-3">&nbsp;</h3> <h3 class="mt-6 mb-2 font-semibold text-xl" data-streamdown="heading-3"><span class="font-semibold" data-streamdo