Job Specifications
Teamwork makes the stream work.
Roku is changing how the world watches TV
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.
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.
About the team
At Roku, our Trust Engineering team is a close-knit group of passionate professionals. Our mission? To protect our customers, partners, devices, services, infrastructure, and data. We work collaboratively, sharing insights and expertise to stay ahead of the curve. Join us, and you'll be part of a dynamic team that thrives on challenges and celebrates victories together.
About the Role
As a Senior Security Engineer on the Trust Cloud team, your role involves architecting, designing, and implementing end-to-end security controls to impact the global user base. A key focus is on developing automated, scalable security solutions to enhance efficiency and protect Roku. This position requires expertise in creating and extending security automation tools, including detection and process automation.
What you will be doing
Cloud
Designing and implementing scalable, automated security controls for AWS and GCP using infrastructure-as-code, configuration-as-code, and policy-as-code approaches (Terraform, etc.), and developing supporting automation in Go and Python.
Partnering with infrastructure, platform, and application teams to embed security into application architectures and deployment workflows as part of a robust Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC).
Conducting security reviews and performing threat modeling for infrastructure, platform, and application initiatives.
Improving IAM policies, network configurations, DNS security, and cloud resource management practices.
Designing and implementing integrations with third-party security platforms to automate vulnerability management, secret detection, and cloud posture monitoring, ensuring findings are actionable and seamlessly integrated into engineering workflows.
Respond to security incidents and triage, contain, remediate, and report
Leverage AI to accelerate your learning and enhance your work products
Driving security initiatives end-to-end -- from identifying risks to delivering solutions -- with high autonomy in a fast-moving environment.
DevSecOps
Designing and implementing automated security controls in CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Terraform, and policy-as-code approaches.
Building and maintaining developer-friendly tools and workflows that integrate security checks (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, container scanning) and secure secret management with Vault.
Partnering with development, infrastructure, and platform teams to embed security into architecture, build processes, and deployment workflows as part of a robust Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC).
Automating vulnerability detection, misconfiguration checks, and compliance validation across cloud and containerized environments.
Creating reusable security automation modules, templates, and patterns for engineering teams to adopt.
We are excited if you have
Experience doing security consulting and extensive time doing hands on implementation
3+ years of Software Engineering experience with at least one general purpose programming language (ex. Python, Golang, C, Rust, etc.)
Extensive experience in either PostgreSQL or MySQL, with expertise in architecting, designing, securing, hardening, authentication, authorization, and auditing
3+ years of experience working with/on BDPs
Developed and/or implemented data tagging, data catalogs, or other data protection related activities
Experience designing and administering enterprise identity and access management solutions at scale (ex: AD, EntraID, Okta, etc)
Experience securely running and operating web applications, web services, and service-oriented architecture in production environments.
A proven track record of deploying and operating Kubernetes and containers in production.
Experience deploying and operating infrastructure in other cloud providers (Azure, Oracle, IBM etc)
Experience managing PKI/ X.509 certificate infrastructures
Benefits
Roku is committed to offering a diverse range of benefits as part of our compensation package to support our employees and their families. Our comprehensive benefits include global access to mental health and financial wellness su
About the Company
With the #1 platform for streaming television in the U.S., Roku wants to revolutionize the way the world watches TV.
Our Roku-branded TVs, Roku TV models, Smart Home system, streaming players, audio equipment, and the purpose-built operating system that powers it all can turn any home into a home theater, with seamless integration of hardware and software. Our commitment to our users extends to our brand studio, which creates innovative Roku Originals exclusively for The Roku Channel, a free channel that reaches approximat...
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