Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure, Efficiency, Productivity)

• 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
• You will be a SME and technical leader in engineering Infrastructure, productivity and enterprise tooling, partnering with globally distributed Engineering, Product and Security teams and systems
• Roku is seeking a world class engineer to be a true force multiplier by owning the strategy, architecture, and long-term execution of engineering infrastructure, enterprise tooling, and AI-assisted workflow automation
• This architect/strategist role drives org-wide improvements in engineering productivity, delivery throughput, quality, security posture, and cost efficiency by building platforms, working practices and automation (including AI/LLM-enabled capabilities) that scale across geographies and time zones
• AI-First Automation & Intelligent Tooling:
• Define and lead an AI-first automation roadmap for Engineering Infrastructure and Enterprise Tooling (e.g., reducing waste, accelerating reviews, improving incident response, increasing release confidence)
• Architect and ship AI/LLM-enabled workflow automation across the SDLC (e.g. risk assessment, automated build, test and deployment, intelligent test selection, change-impact analysis, auto-triage of build/test failures)
• Establish policies and guardrails for AI usage in internal tools: data handling, prompt/response logging, model/provider selection, evaluation, fallback behaviors, and abuse prevention
• Dev Productivity & Enterprise Tooling (Global Scale):
• Set technical direction and standards for the globally used developer tools, including build systems. Source code management, branching/release strategy, and self-service support tools
• Architect and evolve, CI/CD and build/test pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, and build systems (Bazel /BitBake/Yocto preferred) to support multi-site engineering environments
• Own and scale test and quality workflows leveraging test management systems (e.g., TestRail or equivalent), enabling consistent traceability, reporting, and release sign-off across distributed teams
• Drive Jira workflow design and automation (templates, guardrails, integrations) to provide consistent cross-org visibility and execution
• Workflow Automation (Cross-Functional, Cross-Geo):
• Design and implement automation spanning Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Partners (e.g., launch readiness, certification/release checklists, partner onboarding, incident/change workflows)
• Replace manual coordination with durable automation and integrations that work reliably across regions/time zones
• Security, Cost, Performance, and Reliability (Distributed Systems):
• Embed secure-by-default controls into pipelines and tooling (access control, secrets handling, audit trails, policy enforcement), including for AI-enabled systems
• Improve build/test performance and reliability (build times, test duration, flake reduction, pipeline stability) using measurable KPIs and operational rigor
• Drive cost efficiencies across tooling/infrastructure (compute utilization, caching strategies, license rationalization including AI/runtime costs and ROI tracking
• This is a highly visible role and you will report directly to a Vice President of Engineering. This requires a very strong technical leader with experience in the development of consumer electronics devices. The right person for this role will have ability to collaborate well with engineering and partner teams
• Own cross-team architectures and standards; drive adoption through influence, clear technical judgment, and sustained multi-quarter execution
• Lead design reviews, mentor senior engineers, and unblock the hardest technical problems across distributed teams and systems
• Provide long-term stewardship via roadmaps, operational maturity (runbooks/SLOs), and incident/postmortem practices suitable for 24/7 global operations
• Establish yourself as the person others bring their hardest problems to

Benefits

• Medical, wellness and financial benefits
• Free snacks and access to the company fitness center
• Unlimited paid time off policy
• Work from home opportunities- Git (workflows, branching strategies, release management)
• Test management systems (e.g., TestRail or equivalent)
• Prior experience at Staff, Principal, or Architect level
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Experience building AI-assisted developer tooling (e.g., CI insights, test intelligence, code review automation, release risk scoring, incident copilots)
• Experience working in large cross functional teams and ability to influence teams that don’t report to you
• Ability to see the big picture while focused on short-term objectives and deliverables
• Build systems ( itBake/Yocto preferred)
• Ability to multi-task and drive parallel projects and distributed teams with tight deadlines
• Experience implementing evaluation/monitoring for AI systems (quality metrics, drift, offline test sets, human feedback loops)
• Jira (workflow design/automation, cross-team visibility)
• Demonstrated experience delivering automation at scale, including building platforms/components used by multiple teams
• Excellent written communication (architecture docs, decision records, operating procedures)
• Strong systems thinking across security, reliability, performance, and cost tradeoffs
• Ownership in platform/infrastructure, developer productivity, CI/CD, build systems, or workflow automation, including work spanning globally distributed teams and systems
• Extensive experience with software development on embedded Linux, multi-process architectures and IPC mechanisms
• Strong, hands-on knowledge of:
• Docker containers (reproducible build/test execution)
• Jenkins (CI/CD pipeline design, scaling, reliability)