or apply directly on Roku's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 29 days Roku's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- Yes taken down and listed again at least once
- Salary listed
- No 50% of Roku's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Roku
- low 0 stale, 19 reposted of 254 open
- Hiring momentum
- 328 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Roku's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Roku.
About this role
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Search team at Roku, you will enhance the search platform infrastructure, focusing on components like Search Query Understanding and Autocomplete. Your role involves optimizing platform KPIs and ensuring reliability and low latency across various systems. You will also manage project priorities and deliverables with limited supervision, contributing to a high-impact engineering environment that directly affects millions of users.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Roku as an employer.
What you need
- 5+ years of experience building large-scale software solutions to concrete problems
- Strong computer science fundamentals with the ability to write algorithms with ease
- Fluency in one of the high-level programming languages like Java, Scala, Go, or Python
- Experience working with big data systems (Spark, Kafka, Flink, S3, Airflow)
- Expertise in data storing solutions with the ability to make a reasoned choice between various products like MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, and RocksDB
- Experience with ETL pipelines, both streaming and batch
What you get
- Global access to mental health and financial wellness support
- Healthcare (medical, dental, and vision)
- Life, accident, disability insurance
- Commuter benefits
- Retirement options (401(k)/pension)
- Support for taking time off according to local leave policies
Worth weighing
- No specific salary or compensation details provided
- The role involves managing projects with limited supervision, which may require strong self-management skills
- The use of AI in the coding process may require adaptability to new tools and workflows
Summarised from Roku's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Roku on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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