Senior Software Engineer, DevOps - Data Platform

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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.

About the Team

Roku runs one of the largest data lakes in the world. We store over 70 PB of data, run 10+M queries per month, and scan over 100 PB of data per month. The Big Data team is the one responsible for building, running, and supporting the platform that makes this possible. We provide all the tooling needed to acquire, generate, process, monitor, validate, and access the data in the lake for both streaming data and batch.

We are also responsible for generating the foundational data. The systems we provide include Scribe, Kafka, Hive, Presto, Spark, Flink, Pinot, and others. The team is actively involved in the Open Source, and we are planning to increase our engagement over time.

About the Role

We are seeking a skilled engineer with exceptional Dev Ops skills to join our team.

Responsibilities include:

automation and scaling of Big Data and Analytics tech stacks on Cloud infrastructure, building CI/CD pipelines, setting up monitoring and alerting for production infrastructure, and keeping our tech stacks up to date.

What you'll be doing:

• Develop best practices around cloud infrastructure provisioning, disaster recovery, and guiding developers on the adoption

• Scale Big Data and distributed systems

• Collaborate on system architecture with developers for optimal scaling, resource utilization, fault tolerance, reliability, and availability

• Conduct low-level systems debugging, performance measurement & optimization on large production clusters and low-latency services

• Create scripts and automation that can react quickly to infrastructure issues and take corrective actions

• Participate in architecture discussions, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects

• Collaborate and communicate with a geographically distributed team

We're excited if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience

• 8+ years of experience in Dev Ops or Site Reliability Engineering

• Experience with Cloud infrastructure such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, or other Public Cloud platforms. GCP is preferred.

• Experience with at least 3 of the technologies/tools mentioned here:
Big Data / Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Presto, Druid, Open search, HA Proxy, or Hive

• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker

• Experience with Terraform

• Strong background in Linux/Unix

• Experience with system engineering around edge cases, failure modes, and disaster recovery

• Experience with shell scripting, or equivalent programming skills in Python

• Experience working with monitoring and alerting tools such as Datadog and Pager Duty, and being part of call rotations

• Experience with Chef, or Puppet, or Ansible

• Experience with Networking, Network Security, Data Security

Benefits

Roku is committed to offering a diverse range of benefits as part of our compensation package to support our employees and their families. Our comprehensive benefits include global access to mental health and financial wellness support and resources. Local benefits include statutory and voluntary benefits which may include healthcare (medical, dental, and vision), life, accident, disability, commuter, and retirement options (401(k)/pension).

Our employees can take time off work for vacation and other personal reasons to balance their evolving…