Data Engineer, Ads Auction Platform

Company: Roku
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Location: Manchester
Job Description:

Requirements

  • This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys high-scale data systems, strong data quality practices, and measurable business impact
  • 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

What the job involves

  • 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
  • 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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Posted: July 1st, 2026