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Senior Software Engineer, Demand Bidder, Ad Serving Platform

Roku · Bengaluru, India

Posted 23 days ago

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This role has been open
23 days
Roku's roles stay open a median of 45 days
Reposted
No
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 Demand Bidder team at Roku, you will design and build core components of a real-time advertising platform that serves ads across various formats. Your role will involve scaling and evolving the system architecture, collaborating with engineers and applied scientists, and ensuring high performance and low latency in a distributed environment. You'll also be expected to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders while promoting best practices in development and operations.

Our read on this posting3.0out of 5
benefits
2/5
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

  • 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale, low-latency distributed systems
  • Strong command of Java, with a solid foundation in algorithms, data structures, concurrency/multi-threading, and performance optimization
  • Experience owning features or subsystems through design, build, testing, deployment, and iteration based on production feedback
  • Comfort contributing to live, business-critical systems without compromising uptime or correctness
  • Experience with distributed caching, high-throughput messaging/streaming systems, and SQL/NoSQL datastores
  • Comfort operating in cloud infrastructure (GCP or AWS) at scale

Nice to have

  • Exposure to statistical, control-theory, or ML-driven techniques within production decision-making systems
  • Real-time bidding / ad-tech domain experience
  • Experience in adjacent high-stakes, low-latency domains (trading systems, ranking/recommendation, matchmaking, risk/fraud systems)
  • You've used AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) in real work

What you get

  • Global access to mental health and financial wellness support and resources
  • Healthcare (medical, dental, and vision)
  • Life, accident, disability, commuter, and retirement options (401(k)/pension)
  • Support for taking time off in accordance with local leave policies

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed
  • Fast-paced environment may require adaptability and quick decision-making
  • Role involves working on business-critical systems, which may add pressure

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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