Engineering Manager, Ad Serving
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.
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
Benefits
- health insurance
- equity awards
- life insurance
- disability benefits
- parental leave
- wellness benefits
- paid time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
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