Senior Engineering Manager, Content Platform

Roku • San Jose, CA

7h • Hybrid

About The Position

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. We are seeking a highly technical, strategic Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Core Content Platform team. In this role, you will define the technical vision and drive the execution of a highly scalable, cloud-agnostic data abstraction layer. You 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
• equity awards
• life insurance
• disability benefits
• parental leave
• wellness benefits
• paid time off
• global access to mental health and financial wellness support and resources
• Local benefits include statutory and voluntary benefits which may include healthcare (medical, dental, and vision)
• life, accident, disability, commuter, and retirement options (401(k)/pension)
• vacation and other personal reasons to balance their evolving work and life needs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed