Senior Backend Engineer — Distributed Systems (Streaming Platform)

Roku·Cambridgesenior

In short

→Ingeniero backend senior que construye sistemas distribuidos a gran escala para la plataforma de descubrimiento de contenido de Roku.
→Trabajas en equipo con producto y diseño, llevando ideas de prototipo a lanzamiento masivo en millones de dispositivos.
→Destaca el uso de IA agente para acelerar el desarrollo y la capacidad de dominar código desconocido con ayuda de herramientas inteligentes.

Proficiency in English is required for collaboration across global teams.

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What they ask for

✓Experiencia comprobada construyendo servicios a gran escala en entornos distribuidos.
✓Capacidad para iterar rápidamente desde prototipos hasta lanzamientos masivos.
✓Habilidades de colaboración con equipos de producto, diseño y socios externos.
✓Experiencia práctica con herramientas de IA agente (como Claude Code, Cursor, MCP, frameworks de agentes).
✓Capacidad para evaluar y validar salidas de agentes de IA y usarlos en producción.
✓Capacidad de aprender rápidamente código base desconocido con ayuda de herramientas de automatización.

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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 pioneered streaming to the TV and continues to innovate and lead the industry. While we are well-positioned to help shape the future of television – including TV advertising – around the world, continued success relies on our investment in digital services. Our team is a multi-disciplinary team responsible for the architecture and implementation of services that make up Roku's browse and discovery platform. This platform is the backbone behind The Roku Channel, offering a wide range of free and premium content and entertainment to millions of users in the US and around the world. What is the role? We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with experience in building services at scale. With so many people relying on us for great movies, TV, and news - scaling, reliability, fallbacks, and automation of these scenarios are always at the top of our mind as we continuously add features to the platform. We work very closely with the product team and pride ourselves on quickly iterating on features from prototypes to A/B tests to eventual release to all users. It's still early days for this platform, with plenty of challenging and interesting problems to work on. 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. 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 have built fluency across the agentic engineering toolchain — coding harnesses like Claude Code or Cursor, MCP 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. What are the responsibilities of the role? • Build extremely large-scale platform products and services, used both by Roku engineers from across the company, and directly by consumers across millions of devices • Work with Product/Design teams to iterate and build software, taking a concept from ideation to its production deployment and support

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