About the Role
In this role, you will build and maintain data pipelines and analytics infrastructure that power Roku’s CTV advertising auction platform. You will support marketplace optimization by delivering high-quality datasets for advertiser performance, publisher yield, and revenue analysis across batch and near real-time workflows. You will partner with product, analytics, and data science teams to translate business needs into well-modeled, reliable data products. You will contribute to experimentation, simulation, and reporting foundations that inform bidding strategy and monetization decisions. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys high-scale data systems, strong data quality practices, and measurable business impact.
What You'll Be Doing
1. Design and maintain data pipelines and analytics infrastructure supporting Roku’s CTV advertising auction platform
2. Build ETL/ELT workflows in Airflow to process auction events including delivery, bids, impressions, pricing, budget usage, and frequency cap signals
3. Create scalable batch and streaming pipelines for billions of daily ad events with strong freshness, accuracy, and schema consistency
4. Model datasets for multi-objective optimization and marketplace analytics across advertiser, publisher, and platform outcomes
5. Design aggregated tables and materialized views to support closed-loop analysis of auction results and bidding behavior
6. Own integrations from DSPs, programmatic exchanges, and direct campaigns and standardize schemas for unified reporting
7. Partner with data scientists, analysts, and product teams to deliver clean, discoverable, and trusted datasets
8. Enable yield and gross profit analysis through dimensional models, win-rate metrics, demand health indicators, and experiment measurement tables
9. Build data foundations for A/B testing analysis, auction simulation, offline replay, and post-campaign reporting
10. Implement data quality checks, monitoring, and observability while supporting privacy and governance requirements
We're Excited If You Have
11. Experience designing and operating production data pipelines at scale
12. Strong SQL and Python skills and hands-on Airflow experience
13. Experience with both batch and streaming data architectures
14. Familiarity with cloud data platforms and distributed processing systems
15. Experience modeling event-driven data for analytics and experimentation
16. Knowledge of ad tech data concepts such as auctions, bids, pacing, and yield
17. Strong fundamentals in data quality, lineage, monitoring, and governance
18. Ability to partner effectively with cross-functional technical and business teams
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Our Hybrid Work Approach
Roku fosters an inclusive and collaborative environment where teams work in the office Monday through Thursday. Fridays are flexible for remote work except for employees whose roles are required to be in the office five days a week or employees who are in offices with a five day in office policy.
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). Employees are supported in taking time off, in accordance with local leave policies and other personal needs to support 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.
Accommodations
Roku welcomes applicants of all backgrounds and provides reasonable accommodations and adjustments in accordance with applicable law. If you require reasonable accommodation at any point in the hiring process, please direct your inquiries to .
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.