# Senior Software Engineer

**Company:** [Rokt](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rokt)
**Location:** Austin, TX
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $335k – $400k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Go, Scala, Java, C#, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, iceberg, trino, AWS, CI/CD
**Posted:** 2026-07-16

> Senior Software Engineer building and operating ultra high-throughput distributed systems and services that power over 10B ecommerce transactions per year at Rokt. Requires 4+ years commercial experience with modern languages, cloud platforms, and production ownership; nice-to-have domain expertise in data engineering, MLOps, SRE or frontend SDKs.

## Job Description

## 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.).

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