Director, Ad Server Engineering – Scale & Reliability

fox com; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Fox Corporation's AdRise division seeks a Director of Engineering to lead the Rainmaker Ad Server domain, owning core systems that decide, deliver, and govern advertising across streaming. You will guide multi‑quarter delivery, reliability, and health goals, collaborating with Product, Data Science, ML, and platform partners to scale monetization while ensuring performance and operational excellence.

You will lead a high‑impact team, shaping architecture and driving velocity with a pragmatic

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating large‑scale distributed systems.
• 5+ years leading engineers and engineering managers.
• Strong depth in low‑latency, high‑throughput architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Rainmaker Ad Server engineering team with clear direction.
• Own the engineering strategy and roadmap for ad serving and monetization.
• Partner with Product, Data Science, ML, and other teams on durable investments.
• Drive distributed systems architecture for ad decisioning and serving at scale.
• Develop a high‑performing org, coaching leaders and ensuring clarity in roles.

Skills

Distributed systems

Engineering leadership

JVM/Scala

Backend architecture

Incident response

Operational excellence

Cross-functional collaboration

Performance & scalability

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka

Kinesis

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Fox Corporation's AdRise division seeks a Director of Engineering to lead the Rainmaker Ad Server domain, owning core systems that decide, deliver, and govern advertising across streaming. You will guide multi‑quarter delivery, reliability, and health goals, collaborating with Product, Data Science, ML, and platform partners to scale monetization while ensuring performance and operational excellence.

You will lead a high‑impact team, shaping architecture and driving velocity with a pragmatic