Senior Embedded C++ Engineer – UI Infra & Tooling

Roku; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Roku is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, UI Infrastructure, to help develop embedded UI framework features for the Roku platform. You will work with system architects to extend capabilities, improve stability, and ship high-quality code across embedded components.

This role offers visibility across teams, opportunities to build developer tooling in Python and C++, and collaboration with UI, firmware and CI teams. Hybrid work in the Cambridge area with a balance of office days and remote work.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Proficiency in modern C++ for embedded/firmware codebases.
• Strong Python experience for tooling and data processing.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain tooling to improve data quality from Roku OS logging.
• Develop offline pipelines for logs supporting firmware CI and data contracts.
• Write and review C++ changes in embedded codebases for reliable logging.
• Create Python-based tooling to analyze log usage across large codebases.
• Partner with UI infrastructure, firmware, and CI teams to integrate tooling.
• Troubleshoot tooling, pipelines, and instrumentation for correctness and scalability.

Skills

C++ (embedded)

Python

CI pipelines

Logging/telemetry

Memory & threading

Internal tooling APIs

Communication

Tools

Git

CMake

Python tooling

Job description

Roku is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, UI Infrastructure, to help develop embedded UI framework features for the Roku platform. You will work with system architects to extend capabilities, improve stability, and ship high-quality code across embedded components.

This role offers visibility across teams, opportunities to build developer tooling in Python and C++, and collaboration with UI, firmware and CI teams. Hybrid work in the Cambridge area with a balance of office days and remote work.