Staff Software Engineer, Rust

Tubi is a global entertainment company and the most watched free TV and movie streaming service in the U.S. and Canada. Dedicated to providing all people access to all the worlds stories Tubi offers the largest collection of on-demand content including over 275000 premium movies and TV episodes and over 300 exclusive originals. With a passionate fanbase and over 97 million monthly active viewers the company is committed to putting viewers first with free accessible entertainment for all.

About the Team

Were building a new Rust backend engineering team to help to build and maintain the growing Rust apps and tools to support Tubis business.

About the Role:

Were looking for a Staff Software Engineer specializing in Rust to lead the evolution of our backend platform and tooling. This role will focus on developing and maintaining critical Rust-based systems such as Argos (our in-house serverless load testing platform which have supported the success of Super Bowl) the internal data firewall and other tools that improve our platforms robustness compliance and developer experience.

In this role youll architect and implement high-performance secure and scalable systems collaborating closely with teams focused on compliance privacy experimentation and infrastructure. You should be comfortable working independently across system boundaries and mentoring engineers while driving technical strategy.

Were particularly interested in engineers excited to learn and integrate AI-powered coding tools (e.g. Cursor Copilot) into their daily workflow to boost velocity and code quality. Prior experience with such tools is a plus.

This is a hybrid role based in our San Francisco office.

What Youll Do:

• Lead the design development and maintenance of Rust services and tools
• Collaborate with other backend & client teams to deliver high performance & scalable components/services
• Design and optimize systems for reliability observability and scale with an emphasis on clean APIs and modular components
• Explore and integrate AI-based development tools into engineering workflows; evangelize productivity best practices within the team
• Partner with engineering leadership and cross-functional partners to drive technical vision and influence roadmap decisions
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of technical rigor curiosity and continuous learning

Your Background:

• 7 years of backend software development experience including 3 years using Rust in production environments
• Solid experience with Rust common stack including but not limited to Tokio Axum Tonic Hyper Bytes Serde Tracing etc. Experience with pingora stack is a big plus
• Deep understanding of distributed systems event-driven architectures and performance engineering
• Experience with cloud-native technologies (e.g. Kubernetes gRPC CDN S3 Terraform) and modern observability stacks
• Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL DynamoDB Redis Clickhouse etc.)
• Strong alignment with engineering craftsmanship testing documentation reliability and performance optimization
• Enthusiasm for using and experimenting with AI tools to enhance software engineering workflows

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. 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.

California Compensation
Base ($181000 to $259000/year) Bonus Long-Term Incentive Plan Benefits

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Tubi is a division of Fox Corporation and the FOX Employee Benefits summarizedherecovers the majority of all US employee following distinctions below outline the differences between the Tubi and FOXbenefits:

• 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 FOXs 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.

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.