Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

Tubi • San Francisco, CA

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

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. You must be willing to travel to our SF or NYC office 3 days/week.

Requirements

• 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
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives
• Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate trade-offs and drive alignment
• Experience working in high-traffic, mission-critical production environments
• Familiarity with Linear content systems, EPG platforms, or other time-based scheduling architectures is preferred
• Hands-on experience building or supporting systems for large-scale live events (e.g., major sports tournaments) with high concurrency and real-time demands.

Nice To Haves

• Deep production experience in Elixir & Rust
• Deep production experience with Pingora or Nginx
• Advanced Kubernetes experience
• Prior ownership of large-scale architectural transformations

Responsibilities

• Define and drive architectural direction across multiple services and teams
• Lead the design and evolution of distributed systems
• Ensure systems are built for long-term scalability, resilience, observability, and security
• Drive cross-team technical alignment across client, infrastructure, product, ads, and content organizations
• Mentor senior engineers and elevate engineering standards across the team
• Own critical system design decisions that impact multiple platforms
• Contribute to domain leadership in areas such as Linear systems, EPG platforms, or time-based content architectures (preferred)
• Shape and evolve Tubi’s backend development practices, including AI-native engineering workflows
• Flexibility to support business-critical needs outside regular working hours when necessary, like oncall and live events.
• Strong sense of ownership, with proactive attention to on-call situations and production stability.
• Demonstrated cross-team leadership, with familiarity working across multiple teams in complex organizational environments.

Benefits

• This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, long-term incentive plan, and various benefits including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents.
• 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, in lieu of FOX Paid Parental Leave, Tubi offers a generous Parental Leave Program, which allows parents twelve (12) weeks of paid bonding leave within the first year of birth, adoption, surrogacy, or foster placement of a child in addition to applicable government leave program(s) and FOX’s short-term disability policy. This time is 100% paid through a combination of any applicable state, city, and federal leaves and wage-replacement programs in addition to contributions made by Tubi.
• For all full-time, regular employees, Tubi offers a monthly wellness reimbursement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed