Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Services

Roku•San Jose, CA

63d

About The Position

As part of this exercise, you will have the opportunity to design and build a highly scalable, performant, and resilient system-one that could significantly influence Roku's future growth trajectory. This challenge will allow you to demonstrate your ability to architect solutions that operate at scale, leverage modern cloud technologies, and embody best practices in distributed systems design. You'll work with cutting-edge tools and frameworks to craft microservices, optimize cloud deployments, and ensure system reliability, all while contributing to the evolution of Roku's technology ecosystem and its ability to deliver exceptional user experiences worldwide.

Requirements

15+ years of experience in large-scale backend services, specifically within payment system architecture and implementation, or related professional industry experience
A good understanding of various payment flows, including payment processing, card tokenization, payment gateway integration, and token vault management, is required.
Good understanding of different payment processing flows, such as sync vs async, and online vs offline.
Familiar with different compliance standards, such as SOX, PCI, 3DS, etc.
Experience with the RFP (Request for Proposal) Process, proven ability to translate business needs to vendor requirements, performance of deep technical evaluation on 3rd parties vendors, and helping businesses select the right vendor to scale with the company.
Strong architectural design experience and a proven track record of building a highly available, scalable payment platform.
Strong expertise with cloud solutions/systems across the cloud, with AWS or GCP, is a must.
Strong experience in designing and leading highly complex transactional systems
Strong passion for technology and adding value to the bottom line through technology
Strong expertise in Payments and billing systems is required
Strong passion & expertise in building and adopting CI/CD pipelines

Nice To Haves

Experience with multi-cloud solutions is a plus, as is the ability to provide technical guidance for designing, deploying, and scaling applications across multiple cloud environments.

Responsibilities

Lead the evaluation and implementation of new technologies and designs
Evaluate emerging technologies and seek innovative solutions to address existing and new challenges
Engage in architectural discussions across multiple teams, influence the roadmap, and take ownership of key projects and initiatives
Providing technical leadership and expertise to drive platform capabilities to ensure high availability and scalability
Demonstrate engineering excellence practice by setting expectations and leading by hands-on examples
Own building platform features, driving directly with product and other engineering teams
Review technical specification documents created by the development team and mentor team members
Own design and implementation of shared architectural layers (e.g., queuing, event systems, shared memory clusters) and libraries that can be used across teams
Be an evangelist for best practices across all functions - developers, QA, and infrastructure/ops
Be an evangelist for platform innovation and reuse
Be actively involved in code/design reviews, but expected to code 70% of the time

Benefits

Roku is committed to offering a diverse range of benefits as part of our compensation package to support our employees and their families.
Our comprehensive benefits include 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).
Our employees can take time off work for vacation and other personal reasons to balance their evolving work and life needs.
It's important to note that not every benefit is available in all locations or for every role. For details specific to your location, please consult with your recruiter.

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