Senior Roku Engineer, Performance & Personalization

Paramount Pictures; Burbank (CA); On-site; USD 124,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) plan

Bonus pool

Job summary

Paramount Pictures in Burbank is seeking a senior Roku software engineer to build and ship the Paramount+ Roku application. You will own features from design through deployment, tackling memory budgets, single-threaded render loops, and certification requirements across device tiers.

Join a collaborative, agile team, write clear architecture docs, and contribute to CI/CD pipelines while applying BrightScript and SceneGraph expertise. Strong systems thinking and communication are essential.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain core Roku framework components and application features for Paramount+.
• Architect around Roku constraints: memory limits, render-thread boundaries, device performance tiers, and certification requirements.
• Use RSG 1.3 data transfer APIs, BrightScript Memory Monitor, and Perfetto tracing to fix performance issues.
• Build real-time personalization and engagement features within Roku budgets.
• Write clear documentation for components, architecture decisions, and platform-specific patterns.
• Measure and improve application performance and stability through instrumentation and observability.
• Coordinate with backend engineering and DevOps/SRE on service builds and deploys.
• Review code, pair with teammates, and raise the quality bar.
• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines and testing infrastructure.
• Design and run A/B tests and act on data.
• Use AI development tools to move faster.

Skills

OOP

Data structures

Algorithms

Communication

System design

AI tools

Explain memory model

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

BrightScript

SceneGraph SDK

RSG 1.3

Git/GitHub

Job description

Paramount Pictures in Burbank is seeking a senior Roku software engineer to build and ship the Paramount+ Roku application. You will own features from design through deployment, tackling memory budgets, single-threaded render loops, and certification requirements across device tiers.

Join a collaborative, agile team, write clear architecture docs, and contribute to CI/CD pipelines while applying BrightScript and SceneGraph expertise. Strong systems thinking and communication are essential.