Senior Director, Software Engineering

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 role Software engineering is at an inflection point — and Enterprise Engineering at Roku sits right at the center of it. Applications are increasingly built to plug into AI platforms — exposing their capabilities as services for agents rather than standing alone as siloed apps — and the once-clear lines between engineering disciplines are blurring, rewarding versatile engineers who can work across the stack and own outcomes end to end. At the same time, AI is raising the bar on what a lean engineering organization can deliver. Roku is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead the organization that builds the custom applications, integrations, enterprise data, AI and agentic capabilities, and productivity platforms that power how the company runs. This is a senior leadership role: you’ll set the technical vision, shape our architecture for an AI-native future, and make Enterprise Engineering’s systems agent-ready — all while championing engineering excellence in quality, security, and speed. Reporting to the VP of Enterprise Engineering, you will lead a global organization across teams in the US, UK, and India. You’ll own the software engineering organization building Roku’s custom enterprise applications, integrations, and enterprise data; Productivity Engineering, the platforms and workflows that shape how thousands of employees work each day; and enterprise AI enablement — the AI-enabled capabilities that let our systems and our people operate with far greater leverage. The ideal candidate is a builder-architect and a transformation leader. You have deep, current expertise in AI and software architecture and a clear point of view on where software is heading, and you have repeatedly reshaped teams and lifted engineering standards to meet that direction. You care as much about how work gets done — the architecture, the rigor, the ways of working — as about what gets shipped. What you’ll be doing Technical Direction & Architecture Set the technical vision and standards for the software engineering organization that builds Roku’s custom enterprise applications, integrations, and enterprise data. Advance our architecture and engineering practices — driving cloud-native design, strong engineering and security discipline, and fast, reliable delivery. AI & the Agentic Platform Drive our enterprise AI enablement strategy — building the reusable foundations for agent-ready systems (identity-aware MCP services, reusable skills, eval practices, and a governed context layer) and enabling teams across the organization to build, adopt, and operate AI capabilities themselves. Lead the organization’s shift to AI-first engineering: drive team-wide AI adoption, create the psychological safety for teams to experiment and learn, redesign workflows around AI rather than bolting it on, and establish standards for the quality and accountability of AI-assisted work. Organization & Transformation Reshape team topology around outcomes as the boundaries between engineering disciplines blur, evolving the org toward versatile, product-aligned teams. Build, coach, and uplift a high-performing, geographically distributed engineering team, and…