Senior Software Engineer, Subscriptions Platform

Subscriptions are a key growth area for Roku and are a significant growth path. The subscription platform is part of every step of the customer journey from product placement, purchase, renewals, and viewing experience of digital content on TV and smart home products in domestic and international markets. It also empowers our partners with real-time subscription information, ensuring customers have a smooth purchase and viewing experience.

In this role, as part of the subscriptions platform team, you will envision, architect, build, and run a highly available, fault-tolerant, efficient, and performant platform that scales to billions of viewers.

In this role, you will lead the architecture and implementation of a highly available, fault-tolerant, and performant subscriptions platform that scales to billions of viewers across AWS/GCP, owning key initiatives end-to-end while coding roughly 80% of the time. You'll evaluate and adopt new technologies, design shared architectural layers (queuing, event systems, shared memory), and collaborate across Product, Engineering, QA, and Ops to deliver resilient services spanning streaming, APIs, notifications, and batch workloads.

As a hands-on technical leader, you will set engineering excellence by example, drive CI/CD automation and platform reuse, influence roadmap through cross-team architectural discussions, and consistently turn complex requirements into reliable, well-documented systems.

For California Only - The estimated annual salary for this position is between $186,000 - $388,000 annually.

Compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, certifications, and specific geographical location. This role is eligible for health insurance, equity awards, life insurance, disability benefits, parental leave, wellness benefits, and paid time off.

- Lead the evaluation and implementation of new technologies and designs. Evaluate emerging technologies and seek innovative solutions to address existing and new challenges

- Engage in architectural discussions across multiple teams, influence the roadmap, and take ownership of key projects and initiatives

- Providing technical leadership and expertise to drive platform capabilities to ensure high availability and scalability

- Demonstrate engineering excellence practice by setting expectations and leading by hands-on examples

- Own building platform features, driving directly with product and other engineering teams

- Own design and implementation of shared architectural layers (e.g., queuing, event systems, shared memory clusters) and libraries that can be used across teams

- Review technical specification documents, provide feedback, and collaborate for best in class solution

- Be an evangelist for best practices across all functions - developers, QA, and infrastructure/ops

- Be actively involved in code/design reviews and expected to code 80% of the time

- 10+ years of experience in architecting, implementing, and running large-scale services, specifically in subscriptions, purchase, and billing domains

- Experience building systems of various workloads - streaming, API, notifications, batch, etc.

- Expertise in various subscription flows, including tax, payment, purchase, renewal, dunning, cancellation, repurchase, and invoicing.

- Strong architectural design experience, great track record of building a highly available and scalable subscription platform

- Strong expertise with cloud solutions/systems across cloud with AWS or GCP is a must

- Strong experience in designing and leading the implementation of highly complex transactional systems, collaborating with teams across the organization

- Strong passion for technology and adding value to the bottom line through technology

- Strong passion & expertise with automation, including building and adopting CI/CD pipelines

- Experience with multi-cloud solutions is a plus, and the ability to offer technical guidance to design, deploy, and scale applications across multiple cloud environments

- Experience integrating with various streaming and subscription platforms like Amazon, Apple, Google, and Samsung is a plus