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# Data Engineer, Ads Auction Platform

- **Company:** Roku, Inc.
- **Location:** Manchester, NH, United States (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** A/B Testing, Airflow, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Systems, Distributed Computing Environment, Python (Programming Language), Operational Databases, Cloud Services, Standard Sql, Data Streaming
- **Published:** June 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=8778b03a7122f86d

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Schema design?, * Experience designing and operating production data pipelines at scale

 * Strong SQL and Python skills and hands-on Airflow experience
 * Experience with both batch and streaming data architectures
 * Familiarity with cloud data platforms and distributed processing systems
 * Experience modeling event-driven data for analytics and experimentation
 * Knowledge of ad tech data concepts such as auctions, bids, pacing, and yield
 * Strong fundamentals in data quality, lineage, monitoring, and governance
 * Ability to partner effectively with cross-functional technical and business teams

## Description

In this role, you will build and maintain data pipelines and analytics infrastructure that power Roku's CTV advertising auction platform. You will support marketplace optimization by delivering high-quality datasets for advertiser performance, publisher yield, and revenue analysis across batch and near real-time workflows. You will partner with product, analytics, and data science teams to translate business needs into well-modeled, reliable data products. You will contribute to experimentation, simulation, and reporting foundations that inform bidding strategy and monetization decisions. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys high-scale data systems, strong data quality practices, and measurable business impact., * Design and maintain data pipelines and analytics infrastructure supporting Roku's CTV advertising auction platform

 * Build ETL/ELT workflows in Airflow to process auction events including delivery, bids, impressions, pricing, budget usage, and frequency cap signals
 * Create scalable batch and streaming pipelines for billions of daily ad events with strong freshness, accuracy, and schema consistency
 * Model datasets for multi-objective optimization and marketplace analytics across advertiser, publisher, and platform outcomes
 * Design aggregated tables and materialized views to support closed-loop analysis of auction results and bidding behavior
 * Own integrations from DSPs, programmatic exchanges, and direct campaigns and standardize schemas for unified reporting
 * Partner with data scientists, analysts, and product teams to deliver clean, discoverable, and trusted datasets
 * Enable yield and gross profit analysis through dimensional models, win-rate metrics, demand health indicators, and experiment measurement tables
 * Build data foundations for A/B testing analysis, auction simulation, offline replay, and post-campaign reporting
 * Implement data quality checks, monitoring, and observability while supporting privacy and governance requirements


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