About the job
About the Role:
Join our dynamic team at Tubi TV as a Senior Staff Software Engineer, where your deep technical knowledge will intersect with influential organizational leadership. This position transcends individual service management, requiring a proven ability to make significant contributions across teams, domains, and comprehensive distributed systems.
This is a hybrid role based in our San Francisco or New York City offices, with a requirement to be present in-office three days a week.
What You'll Do:
- Define and steer the architectural vision across various services and teams.
- Lead the design and enhancement of distributed systems.
- Ensure the systems are developed for enduring scalability, resilience, observability, and security.
- Facilitate technical alignment across diverse teams within client, infrastructure, product, ads, and content domains.
- Mentor senior engineers, elevating engineering standards throughout the team.
- Make pivotal system design decisions impacting multiple platforms.
- Contribute to domain expertise in areas such as Linear systems, EPG platforms, or time-based content architectures (preferred).
- Advance Tubi’s backend development practices, encompassing AI-native engineering workflows.
- Exhibit flexibility to address critical business requirements outside of regular working hours when necessary, such as on-call responsibilities and live events.
- Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership, proactively managing on-call situations and production stability.
- Showcase cross-team leadership capabilities, with experience navigating complex organizational environments.
Your Background:
- Proven experience in designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Expertise in backend development (preferably Elixir and Rust or similar languages).
- Strong architectural judgment with a track record of successful cross-team technical leadership.
- Proficient in gRPC/Protocol Buffers, RESTful APIs, Kubernetes, and observability systems.
- Ability to lead intricate, cross-functional initiatives effectively.
- Excellent communication skills with the capacity to articulate trade-offs and foster alignment.
- Experience in high-traffic, mission-critical production environments.
- Familiarity with Linear content systems, EPG platforms, or time-based scheduling architectures is preferred.
- Hands-on experience in constructing or supporting systems for large-scale live events (e.g., major sports).
