Engineering Manager - Cloud Services

Posted:
3/18/2025, 7:28:32 PM

Location(s):
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India ⋅ Karnataka, India

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
DevOps & Infrastructure ⋅ Software Engineering

Pay:
$264/hr or $549,120 total comp

Teamwork makes the stream work.

Roku is changing how the world watches TV

Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the US and Mexico, and we've set our sights on powering every television in the world. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. Our mission is to be the TV streaming platform that connects the entire TV ecosystem. We connect consumers to the content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers unique capabilities to engage consumers.

From your first day at Roku, you'll make a valuable - and valued - contribution. We're a fast-growing public company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of TV streamers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines.

 

About the Team 

Roku’s cloud platform team is looking for highly skilled infrastructure and software engineers to help develop and drive Roku’s service mesh hosting architecture and platform. Our team is responsible for building and scaling the platform (Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, operators, and more) to affect Roku’s transition towards a single, unified, cloud-agnostic system where all teams speak the same infrastructure language. We engage across Roku’s engineering teams to migrate hundreds of workloads to our common platform, including helping augment and automate CI/CD flows. We are looking for a leader who can balance priorities, people, and technology choices and work collaboratively across teams to achieve company-impacting results. 

Our team members are smart, collegial, collaborative and focused on building the best-in-class platform. We foster a culture of experimentation, looking for the best idea to take the day.  As a leader on this team, our Manager models this behavior: If we’re not trying new things, we’re not growing.  And we need to grow and adapt for Roku to stay on top. 

 

About the Role 

As Manager of Roku’s cloud platform team (internally called RMCP) you would have responsibilities in the following key areas:  

  • Provide technical leadership to help architect, design, build, deploy Roku’s next generation service mesh and cloud infrastructure. 
  • Continue to build a world class team of platform engineers by attracting and hiring high quality talent in India. We are expanding in India, so part of your time in this role will involve working closely with rest of engineering in supporting a development center in India and attracting the best talent there. 
  • Work with senior management and align roadmaps, communication strategy and evolution of platform based on their feedback and users of our platform. 
  • Join in efforts to investigate new technology and tools to be adopted by Roku.  
  • Mentor team members to define and adopt new or improve existing processes and procedures.  
  • Coordinate with similar US-based teams to achieve follow-the-sun development. 
  • Act as a product manager for the organization by designing mechanisms to deeply understand our internal customers who use the platform and their pain points. 
  • Assist with managing our team’s sprints, prioritizing the backlog, and project planning. 

We're Excited If You Have 

Leadership Skills 

  • You enjoy building a world class team, attracting, inspiring, and retaining top talent. 
  • You have excellent soft skills and can effectively communicate and drive alignment with a diverse set of people, ranging from developers to Roku executives. 
  • You enjoy the challenge of building internal platforms, cross-team collaboration, work with internal users as customers, influencing the direction of the work, and substantively contributing to system architecture. 
  • You enjoy taking complete ownership of initiatives. 
  • You have experience leading a team of 8+ engineers, setting vision and build roadmaps. 

Technical Skills 

  • Strong hands-on experience in cloud-native technologies. AWS or GCP, Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy and Terraform. Knowledge of another cloud platform like Azure is a plus. 
  • Experience with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, etc. 
  • Demonstrated understanding of overall cloud infrastructure design and developing tools to enable and automate the infrastructure. 
  • Experience in testing and deploying applications via modern CI/CD tools and concepts. 
  • The drive and self-motivation to understand the intricate details of a complex infrastructure environment and identifying areas of improvement. 
  • Strong architectural abilities towards building a wholistic developer experience. 
  • Passion for staying current with the evloving  landscape of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects, industry trends, and emerging best practices. 
  • Experience with cloud cost governance involving forecasting and managing costs is a plus. 
  • Bachelor’s in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.

 

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Benefits

Roku is committed to offering a diverse range of benefits as part of our compensation package to support our employees and their families. Our comprehensive benefits include global access to mental health and financial wellness support and resources. Local benefits include statutory and voluntary benefits which may include healthcare (medical, dental, and vision), life, accident, disability, commuter, and retirement options (401(k)/pension). Our employees can take time off work for vacation and other personal reasons to balance their evolving work and life needs. It's important to note that not every benefit is available in all locations or for every role. For details specific to your location, please consult with your recruiter.

 

The Roku Culture

Roku is a great place for people who want to work in a fast-paced environment where everyone is focused on the company's success rather than their own. We try to surround ourselves with people who are great at their jobs, who are easy to work with, and who keep their egos in check. We appreciate a sense of humor. We believe a fewer number of very talented folks can do more for less cost than a larger number of less talented teams. We're independent thinkers with big ideas who act boldly, move fast and accomplish extraordinary things through collaboration and trust. In short, at Roku you'll be part of a company that's changing how the world watches TV. 

We have a unique culture that we are proud of. We think of ourselves primarily as problem-solvers, which itself is a two-part idea. We come up with the solution, but the solution isn't real until it is built and delivered to the customer. That penchant for action gives us a pragmatic approach to innovation, one that has served us well since 2002. 

To learn more about Roku, our global footprint, and how we've grown, visit https://www.weareroku.com/factsheet.

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