Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve scalable services dealing with ultra high-throughput.
• Write high quality, maintainable code in languages like Go, Scala, Java, C#, or TypeScript.
• Troubleshoot production issues, conduct incident root cause analysis, optimise performance, and maintain scalable solutions under real traffic.
• Drive performance optimisations and refactors that improve system reliability, latency, and cost.
• Own architectural decisions and contribute to system design reviews.
• Research and leverage AI tooling, LLMs, and agents to automate manual processes, accelerate learning, and lift developer productivity.
• Mentor junior engineers and set technical direction on scalability and observability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to align engineering delivery with business objectives.
• Manage priorities, deadlines, and deliverables, owning and operating with autonomy.
• Participate in on-call rotation: Rokt engineering teams own their systems end to end, including building, running, monitoring, and break-fix.

Requirements

• Relevant bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) and 4+ years in commercial software development, designing, building, and operating distributed systems in modern languages like C#, Go, Java, Scala, or TypeScript.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability across troubleshooting, performance, and scale.
• Experience taking your own code to production and operating it.
• Experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and containerisation and orchestration tools (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Willingness to work 4 day in-office, 1 day remote weekly schedule.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience relevant to one or more of the following:
  • High-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
  • Designing and operating internet scale backend services and APIs, with versioning, performance, scalability, and reliability treated as first-order concerns.
  • Data engineering. Building and scaling ingestion and storage on open-source foundations like Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, Iceberg, and Trino. Owning data systems that stay correct and queryable as volume grows by orders of magnitude.
  • MLOps. Building the infrastructure that lets ML move from notebook to production: feature and data access at scale, model management & training, deployment, and the tooling ML Applied Scientists depend on to ship and iterate.
  • Site Reliability Engineering. Owning the operational surface of high-traffic systems: observability, anomaly detection, incident response, and automations that keep on-call sustainable as the network grows.
  • Web & Mobile front-end & SDKs. Building and Refining Rokt's Web and Mobile Software Development Kits for performance, security, and seamless integration across thousands of partner environments.

Compensation & Benefits

• Target total compensation ranges from $335k - $400k, comprised of a fixed annual salary of $210k - $260k, plus employee equity plan grant.
• Equity in a profitable, fast-growing company approaching $1 Billion in revenue.
• Dollar-for-dollar 401K matching plan (up to 4% of fixed annual remuneration).
• Fully funded health insurance (Dental, Optical, and Medical).
• Generous allowances for wellness, technology, mobile, and transit.
• Daily catered lunch, stocked pantry & fridges.
• Dog-friendly offices.
• Extra leave (bonus annual leave, sabbatical leave etc.).