Tubitv
Staff Software Engineer (Backend)
San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) · Staff+ · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$227k-$325kDetected 18 days ago
ElixirDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentKubernetesNginxRESTgRPCLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer who combines deep technical expertise with strong organizational influence.
- This role operates beyond individual service ownership and requires demonstrated impact across teams, domains, and large-scale distributed systems.
- This is a hybrid role based out of either our SF or NYC office.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive architectural direction across multiple services and teams
- Lead the design and evolution of distributed systems
- Drive cross-team technical alignment across client, infrastructure, product, ads, and content organizations
- Own critical system design decisions that impact multiple platforms
- Flexibility to support business-critical needs outside regular working hours when necessary, like oncall and live events.
Requirements
- You must be willing to travel to our SF or NYC office 3 days/week.
Nice to have
- Deep production experience in Elixir & Rust
- Deep production experience with Pingora or Nginx
- Advanced Kubernetes experience
- Prior ownership of large-scale architectural transformations
- Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems
- Deep expertise in backend development (Elixir and Rust preferred, or strong background in comparable languages)
- Strong architectural judgment with proven cross-team technical leadership
- Strong experience with gRPC/Protocol Buffers, RESTful APIs, Kubernetes, and observability systems
Skills
- AI-Driven Development Practice
Compensation
- $227,200 - $324,500 USD
Benefits
- For US-based non-exempt Tubi employees, the FOX Employee Benefits summary accurately captures the Vacation and Sick Time.
- For all salaried/exempt employees, in lieu of the FOX Vacation policy, Tubi offers a Flexible Time off Policy to manage all personal matters.
- For all full-time, regular employees, Tubi offers a monthly wellness reimbursement.
- Tubi is a division of Fox Corporation, and the FOX Employee Benefits summarized here, covers the majority of all US employee benefits.
- Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is listed annually below.
Company info
- Boldly built for every fandom, Tubi is a free streaming service that entertains over 100 million monthly active users.
- Tubi offers the world's largest collection of Hollywood movies and TV shows, thousands of creator-led stories and hundreds of Tubi Originals made for the most passionate fans.
- Headquartered in San Francisco and founded in 2014, Tubi is part of Tubi Media Group, a division of Fox Corporation.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.
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