# Senior Software Engineer, Observability at Roku

- Company: Roku
- What the company does: Roku provides the simplest way to stream entertainment to your TV. On your terms. With thousands of available channels to choose from. Backed by Menlo.
- Company website: https://www.roku.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $251K to $404K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-22
- Apply by: 2026-12-06
- Apply: https://www.weareroku.com/jobs/8312497?gh_jid=8312497&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/roku-senior-software-engineer-observability-2/

## About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Observability team, you'll help design, develop, and scale the platform used across Roku engineering teams to alert and monitor thousands of services. You'll write Go and Rust to build and evolve our own metrics stack on top of open-source technologies, and you'll work hands-on with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Loki, Tempo, and OpenTelemetry, optimizing them for performance, reliability, and usability. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Significant experience (typically around 8 years) in Infrastructure Engineering and/or DevOps, with a focus on observability platforms
- Solid programming experience (typically around 4 years) in Go and/or Rust. Experience with performance-sensitive systems is a strong plus. If you're strong in one, we welcome your interest in growing in the other
- Large-Scale Expertise: Proven experience designing and operating observability platforms that process massive amounts of data (metrics, logs, and traces) to provide actionable insights
- Expertise in deploying, operating, and extending open-source observability tools at scale, such as Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Loki, Tempo, or similar solutions like Cortex, Mimir, or the ELK stack
- Familiarity with open standards such as OpenTelemetry and OpenMetrics
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes and Istio architectures, and the ability to contribute improvements for scalability and integration

Tags: Cloud Tech

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