Principal Engineer Roku / BrightScript

Experience: 13–16 Years

Location: Bangalore

Work mode: Hybrid (3 days a week in office)

Job Overview

We are looking for a Principal Engineer – Roku / BrightScript with strong hands-on experience in Roku/BrightScript development, SceneGraph architecture, Performance Engineering, and technical leadership.

The role will be part of a client platform engineering team working on production OTT/streaming applications and will involve architecture, development, performance optimization, and technical leadership.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the design and development of production Roku/BrightScript applications.
- Design scalable SceneGraph architecture, application routing, deep-linking, and task/threading models.
- Own architecture decisions and provide technical direction for multi-engineer client application development.
- Drive performance engineering and optimization on constrained Roku devices, including memory footprint, rendering performance, application launch time, frame rate, node recycling, and garbage collection.
- Develop and review SceneGraph components, ensuring correct use of field observers, node creation patterns, focus chain, and component lifecycle.
- Work on media playback, player state machines, DRM integration, and OTT/streaming functionality.
- Define coding standards, conduct technical reviews, and provide architecture sign-off.
- Contribute to CI/CD, BrightScript-specific linting, static analysis,



and performance benchmarking.
- Evaluate and implement Roku automation frameworks for deep-link automation, SceneGraph inspection, and performance testing.
- Translate existing/reference implementations into production BrightScript applications while maintaining behavioral fidelity.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to a multi-engineer development team.

Required Skills

- 5+ years of hands-on production Roku/BrightScript development.
- Expert knowledge of Roku SceneGraph.
- Experience shipping and maintaining a production Roku application through full Roku Channel Certification.
- Robust Performance Engineering experience on Roku devices.
- Strong Software Architecture and Technical Leadership experience.
- Experience with task threading, focus chain management, and SceneGraph component lifecycle.
- Experience with OTT, streaming media, or Connected TV products is strongly preferred.
- Working knowledge of DRM integration, player state machines, and media playback.
- Experience with third-party SDK integrations in a BrightScript/Connected TV environment is an advantage.
- Experience with Roku Automation Framework (RAF) or similar automation frameworks is an advantage.

Candidate Profile

- Strong hands-on development background with the ability to combine coding, architecture, performance optimization, and technical leadership.

Should have development experience working on production Roku applications

📌 Principal Engineer - Roku - BrightScript (Bengaluru)
🏢 Talenton
📍 Bengaluru