Senior Software Engineer, Search & Recommendations

About this role

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 to join the Search & Recommendations team, building services at scale that power 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 globally. With so many people relying on Roku for great movies, TV, and news, scaling, reliability, fallbacks, and automation are always top of mind as the team continuously adds features to the platform. This role involves working closely with the product team to rapidly iterate on features from prototypes to A/B tests to eventual release to all users. The ideal candidate will bring strong curiosity, a global mindset paired with locally relevant execution, and the ability to respond to changing business needs. It is still early days for this platform, with plenty of challenging and interesting problems to work on. How will I use AI at Roku? At Roku, AI agents do most of the keystroke-level coding. Engineers act as the technical leads for those agents — setting architecture, reviewing diffs, debugging failures, and validating that every change meets Roku's quality bar. If you've already shipped features where an AI agent wrote the initial code and you steered it to production, we want to talk to you. At Roku, we're embracing AI as a powerful tool to amplify human creativity, accelerate innovation, and deliver better results across the company. You already have 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 these tools made you measurably faster. 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? p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Build extremely large-scale platform products and services, used by Roku engineers across the company and directly by consumers across millions of devices p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Collaborate with Product and Design teams to iterate and build software, taking a concept from ideation to production deployment and support p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Lead efforts to evaluate new technologies and push for best practices across the entire development life cycle, including code and design reviews p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables p]:inline" data-streamdown="list-item">P

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