Senior Video Encoding Engineer for Live & VOD Streaming

Roku, Inc.; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global mental health support

Financial wellness resources

Healthcare benefits

401(k)/pension options

Flexible remote work on Fridays

Job summary

Roku, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Cambridge, England to design and build large-scale video infrastructure for Live and VOD streaming workflows. The role involves collaborating with video engineers and developing resilient, cloud-native services.

The ideal candidate will have strong programming skills, experience in backend systems engineering, and a passion for building reliable services that impact millions of users' streaming experiences.

Roku offers a hybrid working model and a comprehensive benefits package to support its employees and families.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of cloud-native infrastructure patterns and distributed systems.
• Experience developing high-throughput, low-latency video streaming services.
• Strong programming skills in one or more of Go, Java, Rust, C, C++, or Python.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable data-stream pipelines for Live and VOD workflows.
• Develop containerized services for video ingestion and processing.
• Build resilient systems capable of handling network instability and real-time video streams.

Skills

Backend systems engineering

Go

Java

Rust

C

C++

Python

Tools

GStreamer

FFmpeg

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

ELK

Datadog

Job description

Roku, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Cambridge, England to design and build large-scale video infrastructure for Live and VOD streaming workflows. The role involves collaborating with video engineers and developing resilient, cloud-native services.

The ideal candidate will have strong programming skills, experience in backend systems engineering, and a passion for building reliable services that impact millions of users' streaming experiences.

Roku offers a hybrid working model and a comprehensive benefits package to support its employees and families.