Sr. Automation Engineer, Channels

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Job description

Teamwork makes the stream work Roku is changing how the world watches TV About Roku: Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. We connect users to the streaming content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers with unique capabilities to engage consumers. Roku streaming players and Roku TV models are available around the world through direct retail sales and licensing arrangements with TV brands and pay TV operators. About the Role As a Senior Software Automation Engineer in the Channels team you will be building automation, testing, and monitoring solutions for critical platform services that power millions of Roku devices. Our team is responsible for channel services that power Roku TVs & Players as well as web, and mobile experiences. We control the publishing of partner applications as well as the channel line ups for millions of households. The team has developed innovative solutions to run large scale distributed services in the AWS cloud, and we are looking for a Senior SW Automation Engineer with a passion for testing and monitoring distributed micro-services in the cloud. Engineers on our team come from diverse backgrounds, cultures & industries. We value different points of view and work together in building products. What you'll be doing: Collaborate with developers, test engineers, and leaders across the company to deliver quality products that directly touch our users Drive our automation and quality approaches across all environments, including production Design and implement highly maintainable automated test suites for critical backend services Go beyond functional testing alone, develop performance and failure mode testing Contribute to new ideas and best practices to achieve high efficiency and great quality We're excited if you have: 8+ years of experience in owning automation focused on APIs and web services Excellent programming skills in Python or similar scripting languages Solid understanding of microservice architectures and supporting testing strategies Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services - ELB, EC2, RDS, DDB etc. is desirable Experience with a breadth of protocols and data formats such as REST, WebSockets, HTTPS and JSON Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or equivalent Demonstrated ability to be proactive, self-driven, and make practical trade-offs based on business need B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent What it takes to be successful: A desire to script away routine tasks, coupled with a very low tolerance for manual testing Self-motivation coupled with a strong sense of ownership Ability to search out the right problems to solve, and a drive to solve them The desire to make yourself and the team around you better