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High Impact, Great Culture, and Challenging Scale Problems

Senior Staff Engineer, Software
Current Employee
Has worked at Rokt for 6 years
November 25, 2025
Sydney, New South Wales
5.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Technical Challenge and Scale: As a Senior Engineer, I've genuinely enjoyed the complexity of the problems we solve, particularly around performance optimization, front-end web security, and handling massive traffic volumes globally. The work is impactful, and you're encouraged to own features end-to-end.

Truly Empowered Teams: Teams operate with high autonomy. We get to decide on the best technical approach and tooling to solve problems. Management trusts engineers, which fosters a sense of ownership and reduces unnecessary overhead.

Positive and Collaborative Culture: The Sydney office has a fantastic atmosphere - friendly, highly collaborative, and driven. People are smart but humble. There's a strong emphasis on continuous learning and knowledge sharing across engineering teams.

Compensation and Benefits: Rokt is highly competitive with other top tech companies in Sydney for both salary and equity. The office amenities and social events are excellent, creating a great place to be during the week.

Focus on Growth: We use modern technologies and are always exploring better ways to build software. There is a clear growth path for ICs (Individual Contributors) who want to move into Principal roles or technical leadership.

Cons

Given the rapid global growth, there can occasionally be ambiguity around priorities between different global teams, which requires proactive communication to manage dependencies effectively.

Team structure also changes frequently, which can lead to some disruption.

Advice to Management

Maintain the emphasis on strong team autonomy and IC empowerment. Continuing to invest in dedicated time for non-feature work (tech debt, innovation sprints) will be key to scaling the platform sustainably over the next few years.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
5.0
Culture and Values
5.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
5.0
Career Opportunities
5.0
Compensation and Benefits
5.0
Senior Management
5.0

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