Jobs / United States / Roku INC
Senior Software Engineer, Subscriptions Platform
Roku INC · 🇺🇸 San Jose, California
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 52 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 27 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Roku INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles26 certified filings for “Senior Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $222k–$268k, median $265k. Most were filed at wage level IV (65%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Roku INC
The US Department of Labor certified 52 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 27 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 Subscriptions are a key growth area for Roku and are a significant growth path. The subscription platform is part of every step of the customer journey from product placement, purchase, renewals, and viewing experience of digital content on TV and smart home products in domestic and international markets. It also empowers our partners with real-time subscription information, ensuring customers have a smooth purchase and viewing experience. In this role, as part of the subscriptions platform team, you will envision, architect, build, and run a highly available, fault-tolerant, efficient, and performant platform that scales to billions of viewers. About the role In this role, you will lead the architecture and implementation of a highly available, fault‑tolerant, and performant subscriptions platform that scales to billions of viewers across AWS/GCP, owning key initiatives end‑to‑end while coding roughly 80% of the time. You’ll evaluate and adopt new technologies, design shared architectural layers (queuing, event systems, shared memory), and collaborate across Product, Engineering, QA, and Ops to deliver resilient services spanning streaming, APIs, notifications, and batch workloads. As a hands‑on technical leader, you will set engineering excellence by example, drive CI/CD automation and platform reuse, influence roadmap through cross‑team architectural discussions, and consistently turn complex requirements into reliable, well‑documented systems. For California Only - The estimated annual salary for this position is between $186,000 - $388,000 annually. Compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, certifications, and specific geographical location. This role is eligible for health insurance, equity awards, life insurance, disability benefits, parental leave, wellness benefits, and paid time off. What you'll be doing • Lead the evaluation and implementation of new technologies and designs. Evaluate emerging technologies and seek innovative solutions to address existing and new challenges • Leverage agentic AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) to accelerate development while ensuring code quality and production readiness • Build and ship features using AI coding agents delegating implementation, reviewing output, and owning the quality of what makes it to production • Use agentic AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) as part of your daily workflow delegating tasks to AI, reviewing and refining AI-generated code, and integrating it into production • Engage in architectural discussions across multiple teams, influence the roadmap, and take ownership of key projects and initiatives • Providing technical leadership and expertise to drive platform capabilities to ensure high availability and scalability • Demonstrate engineering excellence practice by setting expectations and leading by hands-on examples • Own building platfo