Senior Engineering Manager, Content Platform
About The Position
Roku is seeking a highly technical, strategic Senior Engineering Manager to lead their Core Content Platform team. This role involves defining the technical vision and driving the execution of a highly scalable, cloud-agnostic data abstraction layer. The manager will lead a distributed organization of senior engineers to transition legacy services into a unified, next-generation data platform that natively integrates machine learning and AI capabilities. This is a high-impact leadership position requiring a deep background in distributed systems, real-time data pipelines, and organizational scaling.
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering, backend architecture, and building highly scalable, distributed data platforms
- 7+ years of direct engineering management experience, with a proven track record of recruiting, leading, and retaining senior-level talent and managing distributed teams
- Deep expertise in building real-time data pipelines and large-scale data infrastructure
- Strong proficiency in modern backend and data engineering languages/frameworks (e.g., Scala, Java, Python) and streaming technologies
- Demonstrated ability to drive large-scale architectural migrations and manage complex technical debt
- Hands-on experience developing or managing GenAI-driven platforms, or natively integrating machine learning pipelines into core data services
- Experience with cloud-agnostic architectures and managing multi-cloud or hybrid deployments
- Domain experience in digital media, content platforms, or large-scale consumer applications
Responsibilities
- Drive the architectural roadmap for the platform, ensuring the team builds scalable, highly available, and cloud-agnostic data systems
- Oversee the design and deployment of real-time streaming pipelines and distributed data architecture (utilizing tools like Scala 3, Apache Flink, and distributed SQL databases such as CockroachDB)
- Manage, mentor, and scale a high-performing engineering organization, fostering a culture of technical excellence across US-based and global teams
- Own the reliability, performance, and technical debt management of the data platform, ensuring high uptime and seamless delivery to internal and external partners
Benefits
- health insurance (medical, dental, and vision)
- equity awards
- life insurance
- disability benefits
- parental leave
- wellness benefits
- paid time off
- global access to mental health and financial wellness support and resources
- commuter benefits
- retirement options (401(k)/pension)
- accident benefits
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
