Job Opportunities API

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.   What does the team work on? Roku is the No. 1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico with 70+ million active accounts. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV and continues to innovate and lead the industry. Roku enables our users to access millions of pieces of content — movies, episodes, news, sports, music, and channels — from all around the world, and our advertising systems connect advertisers to that audience at scale. What is the role? You’ll join the Auctions/Marketplace team as a senior engineer focused on real-time bidding — the low-latency, high-throughput path that prices and serves ads within milliseconds. This role is hands-on: you’ll design and build the Java systems that handle pacing, pricing, and ranking under tight latency budgets, and you’ll be expected to reason about performance and correctness at scale. You’ll work alongside the Ad Auctions team and report into Akif Rahim’s Auctions/Marketplace org, with day-to-day technical partnership from senior engineers across the group. Based in the UK (Manchester-anchored). How will I use AI at Roku? 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. We value your AI skills if you have built fluency across the agentic engineering toolchain — coding harnesses like Claude Code or Cursor, MCP servers, custom skills, or agent frameworks — and 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. What are the responsibilities of the role? Design and build real-time bidding infrastructure handling pacing, pricing, and ranking Own performance and reliability for Java systems operating under strict latency budgets Work across microservices, containers, and cloud infrastructure supporting real-time ad serving Partner with the Ad Auctions team on shared system-design decisions across the auction path Diagnose and resolve complex distributed-systems issues under production load Communicate technical trade-offs clearly to engineering and cross-functional partners What experience would help someone be successful in this role at Roku? Senior-level Java engineering experience, including concurrency and JVM performance tuning Experience with low-latency, high-QPS distributed systems, ideally in ad tech or real-time bidding Familiarity with microservices, containerized deployments, and SQL/NoSQL data stores at scale Comfort with auction or marketplace concepts (pacing, pricing, ranking) or a fast ability to pick them up Demonstrated AI/agentic-tooling fluency per the section above Clear communicator who can explain reasoning and trade-offs, not just conclusions #LI-MS3 What's Roku's approach to hybrid working? Roku fosters an inclusive and collaborat