Senior Software Engineer – Backend
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30+ days ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Tubi:
Boldly built for every fandom Tubi is a free streaming service that entertains over 100 million monthly active users. Tubi offers the worlds 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.
About the Team
Tubis Core Experience Backend team is responsible for building the high-performance secure and scalable systems that power our business. We have built disaster-resilient systems to ensure Tubi APIs continue to perform even under extreme traffic conditions. Our team and services have delivered seamless operations for massive events such as the Super Bowl and World Cup while consistently delivering a great experience to our viewers.
On this team you will participate in major campaigns contribute to our critical backend services support multiple platforms and play a key role in shaping and refining the overall backend architecture.
About the Role
We are looking for a software engineer who is proactive collaborative and pragmatic with a passion for solving real-world this role you will:
- Design and implement high-performance backend services in Elixir
- Architect and evolve microservices and distributed systems in Kubernetes.
- Optimize systems for scale resilience observability and security
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver pragmatic solutions to complex problems
- Explore and integrate AI-based development tools into daily workflows
- Work across service boundaries own critical architecture/service design and help evolve Tubis backend system.
Your Background
- Experience in Elixir or strong background in other backend or functional programming languages
- Familiarity with gRPC/Protocol Buffers RESTful API design Kubernetes and observability solutions
- Experience designing distributed systems with clean APIs and modular components
- System design and architecture skills with emphasis on reliability and performance
- Experience with continuous delivery of software systems
Bonus / Preferred
- Rust programming experience
- Extensive experience with Elixir in production environments
- Familiarity with Pingora or Nginx
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
The AI Mandate: AI-Driven Development Practice
This role goes beyond traditional engineering: you will extensively use AI to build the backend stack. The goal is to unlock smarter execution faster delivery and automation at scale while ensuring responsible use of these technologies. This includes but not limited to:
- AI-Augmented Backend Development: Using AI-assisted coding tools (Claude Code Cursor etc.) to accelerate development while maintaining rigorous standards for correctness security and performance. You will set the bar for how backend engineers harness AI to iterate faster write safer code and document systems more effectively.
- AI-Enhanced Architecture & Optimization: Exploring how AI can assist in system design performance tuning and anomaly detection across Tubis distributed backend. You will prototype and integrate AI-powered optimizations that improve throughput reduce latency and detect inefficiencies in large-scale microservice architectures.
- AI-Driven Developer Experience: Contributing to internal tools and platforms that use AI to improve the daily developer workflow ranging from automated code reviews and test generation to smarter observability dashboards. You will help evolve Tubis backend development culture into an AI-native practice.
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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 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.
High cost labor markets such as but not limited to Los Angeles New York City and San Francisco
$186400 - $266300 USD
Toronto Ontario Canada
$137200 - $196000 CAD
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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- AWS
- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Watch free movies and TV shows online in HD on any device. Tubi offers streaming movies in genres like Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Crime and Comedy. Watch now.
