Senior Partner Engineer

Job description

Teamwork makes the stream work. Roku is changing how the world watches TV Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, 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 The Partner Engineering team’s vision is to establish Roku as the preferred platform of choice for our partners (media companies) to distribute and monetize their content globally. The Partner Engineering team’s mission is to be the technical advocate and point of contact for the Partner’s Engineering organization within Roku to help them deliver the best content viewing experience globally for the Roku user community. On a day-to-day basis, we work with engineers from partners organization to help them develop, test, certify, and launch partners direct-to-consumer (DTC) apps in compliance with the Roku platform distribution agreement. We represent partners’ roadmap and technical needs by working cross-functionally with the assigned Partner Engagement Managers, product and engineering teams within Roku. About the role Roku's platform is live across the multiple European countries, and our European footprint is growing — through Roku TV licensing partners, through our own streaming hardware, and through the local broadcasters and streaming services that make the platform worth owning in each market. You will be the senior engineer for our European partners: the person who makes their apps fast, stable and certifiable on Roku, who represents their technical constraints to our platform and OS teams, and who makes each new market launch a technical success rather than a scramble. You will be the engineer for a portfolio of European partners — public service and commercial broadcasters, subscription streaming services and pay-TV operators — working with t…