Engineering Manager, Ad Serving

Roku•New York, NY

21d•$360,000 - $440,000•Hybrid

About The Position

A highly scalable, highly available, real-time advertising platform is critical to supporting and growing Roku’s rapidly expanding ad business. The mission of the Ad Engineering team is to build this platform. The Ad Serving team designs, builds, deploys, and operates Roku’s Supply-Side, Ad Mediation, and Demand-Side platforms, which sit at the core of Roku’s ad monetization and are critical to the business. We are looking for a transformational leader to drive the Ad Mediation area - delivering broad strategic, architectural, and cross-functional impact across Roku’s advertising platform. At Roku, we don’t just use AI, we work with it. AI agents and smart tools help power drafts, analysis, and repetitive workflows, while our people bring direction, judgment, and accountability. We’re looking for curious, adaptable builders who can show how they’ve used AI or automation to move faster, raise the bar, and scale their impact. We value your AI skills if you have built 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 you shipped real work with these tools. You know how to drive an agent, verify its output, and ramp on an unfamiliar codebase with an agent helping you.

Requirements

10+ years of experience architecting and building large distributed systems, with a proven track record of leading complex systems in dynamic, high-growth environments
Track record of building and leading high-performing senior and staff+ engineering teams
Perform as a staff+ technologist on complex, low-latency, revenue-critical, large-scale distributed backend systems
Excellent written and verbal communication and collaboration skills
Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams and initiatives
Experience fostering AI-first thinking within engineering teams to drive innovation
AI literacy and curiosity. You have either 1) tried Gen AI in your previous work or outside of work or 2) are curious about Gen AI and have explored it

Nice To Haves

Expertise in advertising is a plus

Responsibilities

Define and drive a multi-year technical strategy, influencing architecture across multiple teams
Set the long-term technical vision and take end-to-end ownership of the scalability, stability, and performance of Roku’s ad serving mediation platforms - systems operating at massive scale with significant revenue impact
Shape product direction by deeply understanding Roku’s advertising business, marketplace dynamics, and long-term monetization strategy
Lead and grow high-performing engineering teams to execute ambitious product and technical roadmaps
Hire, grow, and retain top talent, fostering a healthy environment where individuals can do their best work
Lead initiatives to significantly improve developer productivity by streamlining development workflows, modernizing tooling, and reducing operational load