Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure / Efficiency / Productivity

About the Role

You will be a SME and technical leader in engineering Infrastructure, productivity and enterprise tooling, partnering with globally distributed Engineering, Product and Security teams and systems.

 

What You’ll Be Doing

Roku is seeking a world class engineer to be a true force multiplier by owning the strategy, architecture, and long-term execution of engineering infrastructure, enterprise tooling, and AI-assisted workflow automation. This architect/strategist role drives org-wide improvements in engineering productivity, delivery throughput, quality, security posture, and cost efficiency by building platforms, working practices and automation (including AI/LLM-enabled capabilities) that scale across geographies and time zones.

 

Key Responsibilities

AI-First Automation & Intelligent Tooling

• Define and lead an AI-first automation roadmap for Engineering Infrastructure and Enterprise Tooling (e.g., reducing waste, accelerating reviews, improving incident response, increasing release confidence).
• Architect and ship AI/LLM-enabled workflow automation across the SDLC (e.g. risk assessment, automated build, test and deployment, intelligent test selection, change-impact analysis, auto-triage of build/test failures).
• Establish policies and guardrails for AI usage in internal tools: data handling, prompt/response logging, model/provider selection, evaluation, fallback behaviors, and abuse prevention.

Dev Productivity & Enterprise Tooling (Global Scale)

• Set technical direction and standards for the globally used developer tools, including build systems. Source code management, branching/release strategy, and self-service support tools.
• Architect and evolve, CI/CD and build/test pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, and build systems (Bazel /BitBake/Yocto  preferred) to support multi-site engineering environments.
• Own and scale test and quality workflows leveraging test management systems (e.g., TestRail or equivalent), enabling consistent traceability, reporting, and release sign-off across distributed teams.
• Drive Jira workflow design and automation (templates, guardrails, integrations) to provide consistent cross-org visibility and execution.

Workflow Automation (Cross-Functional, Cross-Geo)

• Design and implement automation spanning Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Partners (e.g., launch readiness, certification/release checklists, partner onboarding, incident/change workflows).
• Replace manual coordination with durable automation and integrations that work reliably across regions/time zones.

Security, Cost, Performance, and Reliability (Distributed Systems)

• Embed secure-by-default controls into pipelines and tooling (access control, secrets handling, audit trails, policy enforcement), including for AI-enabled systems.
• Improve build/test performance and reliability (build times, test duration, flake reduction, pipeline stability) using measurable KPIs and operational rigor.
• Drive cost efficiencies across tooling/infrastructure (compute utilization, caching strategies, license rationalization including AI/runtime costs and ROI tracking.
• This is a highly visible role and you will report directly to a Vice President of Engineering. This requires a very strong technical leader with experience in the development of consumer electronics devices. The right person for this role will have ability to collaborate well with engineering and partner teams.
• Own cross-team architectures and standards; drive adoption through influence, clear technical judgment, and sustained multi-quarter execution.
• Lead design reviews, mentor senior engineers, and unblock the hardest technical problems across distributed teams and systems.
• Provide long-term stewardship via roadmaps, operational maturity (runbooks/SLOs), and incident/postmortem practices suitable for 24/7 global operations.
• Establish yourself as the person others bring their hardest problems to

 

We’re Excited If You Have

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Prior experience at Staff, Principal, or Architect level
• Ownership in platform/infrastructure, developer productivity, CI/CD, build systems, or workflow automation, including work spanning globally distributed teams and systems.
• Strong, hands-on knowledge of:

• • Git (workflows, branching strategies, release management)
  • Jenkins (CI/CD pipeline design, scaling, reliability)
  • Docker containers (reproducible build/test execution)

Build systems ( itBake/Yocto preferred)

• Jira (workflow design/automation, cross-team visibility)
• Test management systems (e.g., TestRail or equivalent)
• Demonstrated experience delivering automation at scale, including building platforms/components used by multiple teams.
• Strong systems thinking across security, reliability, performance, and cost tradeoffs.
• Excellent written communication (architecture docs, decision records, operating procedures).
• Experience building AI-assisted developer tooling (e.g., CI insights, test intelligence, code review automation, release risk scoring, incident copilots).
• Experience implementing evaluation/monitoring for AI systems (quality metrics, drift, offline test sets, human feedback loops).
• Extensive experience with software development on embedded Linux,  multi-process architectures and IPC mechanisms
• Experience working in large cross functional teams and ability to influence teams that don't report to you
• Ability to see the big picture while focused on short-term objectives and deliverables
• Ability to multi-task and drive parallel projects and distributed teams with tight deadlines

 

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