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Senior Software Engineering Manager, Ads Auction & Marketplace Optimization

United States, Austin · Job Posted July 04, 2026
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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.

Job Responsibility

  • Building teams and mentoring engineers across geographic locations and time zones
  • Defining the strategy and building the long-term roadmap by partnering with Product, Science, and Engineering teams
  • Leading the design, implementation, and evolution of real-time ads auction and marketplace systems
  • Building and enhancing core auction capabilities, including ad pod construction, bid valuation, ranking, pricing, pacing, and budget enforcement
  • Designing auction logic that balances viewer experience (ad load, relevance, repetition) with advertiser performance, publisher yield, platform revenue, and gross profit
  • Driving yield and gross profit optimization through auction design, floor strategies, and pricing experiments
  • Leading experimentation using A/B testing, auction simulations, offline replay frameworks, and making data-driven decisions based on performance metrics and statistical rigor
  • Stay at the forefront of advancements in related areas

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience leading teams that apply auction theory, quantitative optimization, and advanced statistical methods to large, sophisticated datasets
  • 5+ years of experience in leading engineering teams from design to implementation, ensuring scalability and reliability
  • Deep mathematical understanding of auction theory, game theory, economics, quantitative optimization, and statistics
  • Hands-on experience with Python and Java in a production environment
  • BS or higher in CS, Economics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field

Nice to have

  • Experience in the Advertising domain
  • 5+ years of experience applying auction theory, game theory, economics, quantitative optimization, and advanced statistical methods to large, sophisticated datasets
  • MS or PhD in CS, Economics, Math, or a related quantitative field

What we offer

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