Senior Observability Engineer — AI-Driven, Large‑Scale Metrics

Roku; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 251,000 - 404,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity awards

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Parental leave

Wellness benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Roku is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Observability team to design, develop, and scale the metrics stack supporting thousands of services and hundreds of millions of series. You will write Go and Rust, work with Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Loki, Tempo, and OpenTelemetry, and apply AI-driven practices to engineering workflows.

Join a fast-moving, ownership‑driven culture with strong collaboration.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in infrastructure/DevOps with a focus on observability.
• Strong programming experience in Go and/or Rust.
• Experience deploying and operating open-source observability tools at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-performance components of the metrics stack in Go and Rust.
• Apply AI tools and agents daily to design, write, review, and test code; automate tasks.
• Scale and optimize the observability stack and add Roku-specific features.
• Collaborate with Platform team to standardize observability tools and improve usability.
• Lead design discussions and mentor engineers and interns.

Skills

Observability

Go

Rust

AI

Kubernetes

Education

BS in CS or related

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Thanos

Loki

Tempo

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Roku is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Observability team to design, develop, and scale the metrics stack supporting thousands of services and hundreds of millions of series. You will write Go and Rust, work with Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Loki, Tempo, and OpenTelemetry, and apply AI-driven practices to engineering workflows.

Join a fast-moving, ownership‑driven culture with strong collaboration.