Senior Software Engineer, Search & Recommendations at Scale

Roku; Cambridge (MA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mental health & financial wellness

Healthcare benefits

Flexible time off

Job summary

Roku in Cambridge, MA seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Search & Recommendations team. You will build scalable services powering Roku's browse and discovery platform, working with product teams to iterate features from prototypes to production.

The role emphasizes scaling, reliability, fallbacks, and automation, with emphasis on agentic tooling and rapid delivery to millions of users globally.

Qualifications

• Strong software development experience in Java (Python is a plus).
• Experience building large-scale cloud services, ideally in AWS.
• Experience in selecting data stores and analyzing trade-offs.
• Experience with in-memory caches such as Redis or Memcached.
• Track record of monitoring deployments and troubleshooting production systems.
• Strong knowledge of end-to-end web architecture from device to data center.
• Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE or equivalent experience.
• Fluency across agentic engineering toolchains and related projects.

Responsibilities

• Build extremely large-scale platform products and services used by Roku engineers and consumers.
• Collaborate with Product and Design to iterate from ideation to production deployment.
• Lead evaluation of new technologies and promote best practices across the lifecycle.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Participate in Agile processes including design, coding, testing, deployment, maintenance.
• Leverage AI-powered development tools to accelerate coding workflows.

Skills

Java

Python

AWS

Redis

Memcached

Distributed systems

End-to-end web architecture

Agentic tooling

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science/Computer Engineering

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

MCP servers

Agent frameworks

Job description

Roku in Cambridge, MA seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Search & Recommendations team. You will build scalable services powering Roku's browse and discovery platform, working with product teams to iterate features from prototypes to production.

The role emphasizes scaling, reliability, fallbacks, and automation, with emphasis on agentic tooling and rapid delivery to millions of users globally.