Data Engineer, Ads Auction Platform

Role Overview

The Advertising Performance group focuses on performance for all participants in the Advertising ecosystem – Advertisers, Publishers and Roku. The systems and solutions span across different disciplines and technologies to perform real-time multi-objective optimization with distributed systems at large scale and low latencies. We use Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, AI, Control and Optimization Systems and Auction Dynamics to solve a large set of complex problems.

What You Will Do

Design and maintain data pipelines and analytics infrastructure supporting Roku’s CTV advertising auction platform. Build ETL/ELT workflows in Airflow to process auction events, create scalable batch and streaming pipelines for billions of daily ad events, and model datasets for multi-objective optimization and marketplace analytics.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys high-scale data systems, strong data quality practices, and measurable business impact. You will partner with product, analytics, and data science teams to translate business needs into well-modeled, reliable data products.

Requirements

• Experience designing and operating production data pipelines at scale
• Strong SQL and Python skills and hands-on Airflow experience
• Experience with both batch and streaming data architectures
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms and distributed processing systems
• Experience modeling event-driven data for analytics and experimentation
• Knowledge of ad tech data concepts such as auctions, bids, pacing, and yield
• Strong fundamentals in data quality, lineage, monitoring, and governance

Benefits

• Global access to mental health and financial wellness support and resources
• Statutory and voluntary benefits
• Healthcare (medical, dental, and vision)
• Life, accident, disability, commuter, and retirement options (401(k)/pension)
• Time off, in accordance with local leave policies and other personal needs