Manager, SW Engineering

<div class="content-intro"><h2 style="font-family: GothamBold,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #662d91;">Teamwork makes the stream work.</h2> <p> </p> <h3 style="font-family: GothamBold,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><strong>Roku is changing how the world watches TV</strong></h3> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p> </p></div><h3>About the team</h3> <p>Roku pioneered streaming to the TV and continues to innovate and lead the industry. As we strive to influence the future of television globally, including TV advertising, the ongoing success depends heavily on our investment in the Content Management System. With Roku providing millions of movies, episodes, news, and channels, the Content Management System plays a vital role in managing content ingestion, selection, enrichment, and curation. We are seeking engineers capable of developing, designing, and deploying highly scalable, dependable applications, tools, and automation frameworks essential for efficiently handling the vast volume of content in our pipeline.</p> <p> </p> <h3>About the role</h3> <p>Roku pioneered TV streaming and continues to innovate and lead the industry. The Roku Channel has us well-positioned to help shape the future of streaming. Continued success relies on investing in the Roku Cloud TV Platform, so we deliver high quality streaming TV experience at a global scale.</p> <p>You will be part of the Roku Content Management System and Tools Engineering team, playing a key role in developing the next generation content management systems that drive content ingestion, selection, management, and curation workflows. These systems are vital for empowering critical functions like Search and Recommendation on the Roku Platform. Your projects will have a direct impact on millions of Roku users globally. Throughout, you'll collaborate with key stakeholders across various Roku engineering teams and take the lead in designing our content management system.</p> <p>The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong technical leadership, bring endless curiosity and can pair a global mindset with locally relevant execution. You should be a gritty problem solver and self-starter who can drive programs with the product and commercial teams within Roku and across external strategic partner organizations. The successful candidate will display a balance of hard and soft skills, including the ability to respond quickly to changing business needs.</p> <p> </p> <h3>What you’ll be doing</h3> <ul> <li>Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team responsible for content ingestion, enrichment, QC automation, and partner portal systems.</li> <li>Architect and scale distributed systems that handle millions of assets and metadata records, ensuring reliability and low-latency processing.</li> <li>Collaborate with product and operational partners to deliver a world-class Partner Portal that empowers studios, networks, and content providers to onboard and manage their catalogs seamlessly.</li> <li>Drive automation across video, audio, artwork, and metadata QC, integrating AI/ML-based services to improve accuracy and efficiency.</li> <li>Partner cross-functionally to streamline content delivery and operational workflows.</li> <li>Provide technical direction, conduct code and design reviews, ... (truncated, view full listing at source)