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Senior Software Engineering Manager, Ads Auction & Marketplace Optimization

Roku
USAfull_timePosted 2 Aug 2026

About the role

<div class="content-intro"><h2 style="font-family: GothamBold,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #662d91;">Teamwork makes the stream work.</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3 style="font-family: GothamBold,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><strong>Roku is changing how the world watches TV</strong></h3> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p></div><h3><span data-contrast="auto">About the team</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true}">&nbsp;</span></h3> <p><span data-contrast="auto">The Advertising Performance group focuses on performance for all participants in the Advertising ecosystem - Advertisers, Publishers, and Roku. The systems and solutions span multiple disciplines and technologies to perform real-time multi-objective optimization across distributed systems at large scale and with low latency. We use Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, AI, Control and Optimization Systems, and Auction Dynamics to solve a large set of complex problems. At the core of this is our Machine Learning, Experimentation, and Inference Platform, which powers the entire landscape, and we continuously evolve.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><span data-contrast="auto">About the role</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true}">&nbsp;</span></h3> <p><span data-ccp-props="{}">In this role, you will build teams focused on the Ads Auction and Marketplace to optimize yield and gross profit, perform real-time multi-objective optimization across short- and long-term objectives, build control and simulation systems, design and run experiments, and extend the experimentation framework.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">You will partner closely with other Engineering, Inventory, and Product teams to define the vision and strategy for your group and to build and deliver the roadmap.</span

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