Senior Partner Engineer

About the Role

Roku is seeking a highly technical and versatile engineer to work with many of our high-profile partners and bring their content to the Roku platform. This is a unique opportunity to work closely with streaming media companies such as Netflix, Hulu, MAX, Time Warner Cable, and Sling TV.

For California Only - The estimated annual salary for this position is between $187,000 - $204,000 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.

What you will be doing

You will actively manage the technical relationships with several of Roku’s key content partners. These relationships begin with helping development partners define how their content and brand will be presented within the constraints of the Roku platform. The relationship continues through the application development cycle, where you will provide development expertise to the partner’s engineering and product team.

This will draw on your knowledge of the Roku SDK, Roku firmware, video streaming standards, application performance (focusing on embedded systems) and security. Your technical relationships will often require some level of post launch support as partners plan and develop application updates or address technical issues that arise in the field. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of application development, embedded systems, web services, video streaming and developer relations.

This is a unique role requiring both a strong software development background as well as the interpersonal skills to work with representatives from various levels and backgrounds at partner companies and with diverse internal Roku groups, particularly engineering, business development and partner management. You will represent Roku as a technical expert at on-site, or over-the-phone meetings with partners to ensure an ongoing productive working relationship. You must therefore be practical, extremely professional, and skilled at prioritizing tasks to the optimum benefit of Roku business needs.

We're excited if you have

• Computer Science B.S. degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Ability to read and develop in C++ with a minimum of 2 years of experience
• Experience programming in both managed and native software frameworks
• Genuine passion for empowering developers and business partners
• Experience with video streaming standards such as HLS and DASH
• Extremely effective verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work effectively with groups throughout the organization
• Knowledge of Linux essential
• Experience with AWS cloud services
• Experience working with Gracenote APIs desired
• Experience with version control systems (e.g. GIT) a plus

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