Our mission is to help Roku scale, enabling the Roku OS on more machines to extend our reach. While most teams see the world in terms of hardware or software, the Platform Portability team does its best work by straddling that line, living in the grey area where every solution could be achieved via hardware or software. Working across that line and at this scale demands that we think in terms of clean, proper, and appropriate portability and reporting abstractions.
Because of this kind of work, we often say, “there’s no such thing as magic.” We don’t accept that something just works; we wonder why and go digging to figure it out. We aren’t content with surface understandings. We go deep and rip it apart, looking to understand how the “magic” gets done for real. We’re a team that values diversity and flexibility of thought. When we look to add new people to our team, beyond technical skill, we are looking for people with deep curiosity around how things work, how willing they are to go one more layer in to learn. We also value people who have worked in multiple ecosystems and haven’t calcified their thinking around one way to do something but being willing to consider lots of alternate approaches.
Tech stack: Because of the nature of the work, our tech stack is very broad, from the hardware abstraction layer up to the OS and programming language. This might include Linux, Android, Tizen, C, C++, boot loaders, drivers, multimedia and streaming media tech, among others.
Please submit your application to: https://www.roku.com/jobs/position/3438699/software-engineer-platform-portability?gh_jid=3438699
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