Senior Director of Cloud Platform Engineering & Infrastructure

Teamwork makes the stream work.

Roku is changing how the world watches TV

Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the US, 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

The Cloud Technology & Infrastructure team builds platforms that are used by the whole of cloud engineering at Roku. Together, these components are designed to be a cost-effective and secure platform of services used by Roku engineers globally. Our infrastructure team owns the following segments:

• The Developer platform, which involves management and evolution of source control, artifacts, CI/CD and securing cloud infrastructure
• Our Application hosting platform, that is based on Kubernetes and Istio and is designed to address scalability, multi-region hosting, multi-cloud hosting and nuances of deployment
• The Observability platform, which is based on Prometheus, Loki, Grafana and is integrated with our application hosting and developer platform
• Plus the Cloud Governance program

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 Director of Cloud Tech 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 Director/Sr Director of Cloud Technology & Infrastructure, you will be leading the whole platform engineering organization. This role involves responsibilities in the following key areas:

• Provide technical leadership to the team with your experience and focus on simplifying and accelerating developer experience. Lead developer platform, application hosting platform, observability and cloud governance
• Continue to build a world class team of platform engineers by attracting and hiring high quality talent across US, UK and 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
• 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
• Engage with external vendors in negotiations and drive Roku’s cloud governance program, thereby getting involved in build vs buy decisions as needed

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, influencing the direction of the work, and substantively contributing to system architecture
• You are self-driven and enjoy taking complete ownership of initiatives

Technical Skills

• 10+ years in a strategic engineering leadership role, setting vision and leading teams of 20+ people with excellent experience in leading and evolving managers
• Demonstrated ability to engage senior leadership and drive strategic outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to work with internal users as customers
• Strong architectural abilities towards building a wholistic developer experience
• Experience with Kubernetes, Istio and Envoy
• Experience with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, etc.
• Experience with Gitlab, Artifactory, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD and good understanding of different deployment architectures
• Deep knowledge of one cloud provider between AWS and GCP and working knowledge of another is sufficient.
• Experience with cloud cost governance involving forecasting and managing costs
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience

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